Episode 160 - KT Tunstall (Live)
Sodajerker On Songwriting
Sodajerker
4.8 • 912 Ratings
🗓️ 27 March 2020
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
The wonderful KT Tunstall joins us at The Royal Birmingham Conservatoire for a live conversation as part of the launch of the Songwriting Studies Research Network. During the chat, KT takes to the guitar and the piano to demonstrate her creative process on songs like 'Black Horse and the Cherry Tree', 'Suddenly I See' and recent work from albums like KIN and WAX. Note: KT was also the guest for episode 61 of this podcast.
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| 0:00.0 | And So good afternoon everyone, everyone. |
| 0:13.0 | Some of you'll be familiar with the everyone welcome to this special live edition of Soda Jerker on songwriting. |
| 0:24.0 | Some of you will be familiar with the show already. |
| 0:26.3 | For those of you who aren't, the Soda Jerker Podcast began back in 2011. |
| 0:29.8 | We've published 133 episodes so far, featuring interviews with people like Paul McCartney, |
| 0:34.6 | Paul Simon, Alicia Keys, Diane Warren, and the artist joining us this afternoon. |
| 0:39.3 | And now she's about to become a member of the Elite Sodeger Two Timeers Club. |
| 0:43.0 | Sounded wrong. |
| 0:44.0 | It did. |
| 0:45.0 | She's a Scottish, Ivan Novello in Brit Award winning, |
| 0:47.4 | Grammy and Mercury nominated singer-songwriter. |
| 0:50.0 | She based on to the British music scene in 2004 with a five times platinum selling album, |
| 0:54.8 | I to the telescope, which incidentally was reissued earlier this month on Red Vinyl, no less. |
| 0:59.7 | That album is a hill I would die on, friend. |
| 1:02.0 | I'd be right there with you. |
| 1:03.0 | Since then she's gone from strength to strength as a writer and performer |
| 1:06.0 | releasing a string of fine albums and even venturing into film scoring as well. |
| 1:10.0 | Last summer she released their sixth studio album, The Excellent Wax, |
| 1:13.3 | which is the second installment in her Soul Body and Mind trilogy |
| 1:16.6 | following 2016's kin. She's currently on tour across the UK |
| 1:20.5 | with an all-female lineup that she affectionately refers to as five fannies on stage. |
| 1:25.0 | Needless to say, we are thrilled to have it with us. |
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