And the Hello and welcome to So de Jaker on songwriting this This is Simon here with my co-pilot Brian and joining us today as an Irish singer and songwriter whose powerful voice and Rockabilly Stylings first brought it to prominent in the mid-2000s.

In April of this year she released their fifth album to date,

entitled Life Love Flesh Blood,

recorded over the space of a week in Los Angeles

and produced by the legendary T-bone Burnett.

It's a most soulful, personal and intimate record

yet and finds are in typically fine vocal and songwriting form. We're delighted to welcome

the fantastic Imaldum A to the show.

It's a very impressive new record, isn't it? Some great songs in there and

Black Tears in particular kind of sounds like a standard already doesn't it? It does yeah.

And it really demonstrates her versatility as a vocalist the whole album.

Yeah and obviously she was very much associated with that kind of rockabilly approach early on wasn't she but I think there's a lot more in her locker as it were and this record shows it doesn't it?

Definitely.

Emelter was in Liverpool recently to play the Philharmonic Hall and we were looking enough to

meet her for a nice little chat backstage which you'll be hearing in just a few minutes.

Our guest was born in 1974 in Dublin and grew up in the Liberties area of the city.

She was the youngest of five children and as such was very much influenced by the musical

tastes of her elder siblings, especially her brother's love of rockabilly and

practitioners like Buddy Holly, Jim Vincent and Eddie Cochran.

She was also drawn to the distinctive voices of jazz artists like Billy Holiday and country singers

like Patsy Klein whose records she would play repeatedly.

Emeldo was writing songs at a very early age and began a performing career age just

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