And the Welcome one and all to another edition of Soda Jerker on songwriting.

This is Brian, here as always with Simon, and joining us for episode 202 is a

fearlessly creative, Grammy-winning American singer-songwriter and musician.

Here remarkable career so far is seeing they collaborate with the likes of David Byrne,

Taylor Swift, The Chicks, Duolipa, Beck, Amanda Palmer, Guerrillas and Paul McCartney. In mid-May 2021 she released her sixth studio album, The Intoxicating 70s

influenced Daddy's home and it's a worthy addition to what was already a formidable

body of work. We couldn't be happier to welcome the brilliant Annie Clark,

aka St Vincent to the show.

Like any self-respecting songwriting podcast, we jumped at the chance to speak to Annie,

didn't we? We did, yeah, I mean we're huge admirers of her writing,

her approaches of the guitar,

the way she reinvented herself with each record

in that sort of Bowie-esque fashion.

The whole Kit and Caboodle basically.

Absolutely.

Our guest was born in 1982 in Tulsa, Oklahoma and later grew up in Dallas, Texas.

Inspired in part by Jimmy Hendrix, whom she apparently first heard on the Forrest Gump

soundtrack. She began playing guitar at age 12. She also played bass in a rock covers band

at middle school and counts Led Zeppelin, Jethro Tull, Steer Dan, P.J. Harvey and Radiohead among

Gerele influences. As a teenager and he worked as a roadie for her aunt and uncle,

the guitar vocal jazz duo Tuck and Patty, which proves something of a

training ground in the fundamentals of the music business,

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