Greetings fellow travelers on this journey we call life and welcome to

episode 17 of so-the-jaker on songwriting coming up is an interview with the

extremely talented singer songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Nellie Mackay,

but first a spot of housekeeping.

Yeah, just a few things to mention. There's a new demo on the website of a song called Talk of the Town. If you haven't heard that yet,

check it out. It's kind of a stompy synth pop tune inspired by the Chin and Chapman

productions of the 1970s. We're also about to start a new writing and recording project that

should see us producing a new volume of songs in one go, hopefully with one

special move. So we'll keep you informed about that on our website at soda jerker

dot com and as usual

please keep in touch tweet us at soda jerker and let us know what you think of

the show or what guests you'd like to see on for future episodes. Speaking of

which this will be our last episode for a few weeks. I'm

off to do some traveling in the US and Canada, but we have another good one in the

bag ready to go upon my return, so keep hitting that refresh button in iTunes.

Anyway back to our guest.

Nellie Mackay first appeared on my personal radar about eight years ago,

when I chanced upon an article about her in Word magazine here in the UK.

I liked the cut of her jib as they say so I went

out and bought her debut album, Get Away From Me, and was totally bowled over by her precocious talent,

her intelligence and charisma, not to mention the adventurousness of the

melodies and the sheer variety of styles she navigated with such ease.

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