Episode 61 - KT Tunstall

Sodajerker On Songwriting

Sodajerker

Sodajerker, Barber, Simon, Music Interviews, Liverpool, Songwriters, Musicians, Oconnor, Songwriting, Interviews, Music, Podcast, Brian

4.9 • 885 Ratings

🗓️ 30 September 2014

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Singer-songwriter KT Tunstall joins Simon and Brian to chat about the writing of songs like 'Black Horse and the Cherry Tree', 'Suddenly I See', 'Uummannaq Song', 'Fade Like a Shadow', 'Difficulty', and songs from her recent album, Invisible Empire // Crescent Moon. KT also talks extensively about her approach to looping sounds using pedals, techniques for developing new ideas, and her plans for the future.

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0:00.0	The Greetings Travelers and welcome to Soda Jerker on songwriting episode 61.
0:22.2	Joining us today is a hugely talented Scott Jerker on songwriting, episode 61.
0:22.9	Joining us today is a hugely talented Scottish singer-songwriter
0:26.3	who over the last decade has earned a richly deserved reputation
0:29.3	as a guitar-toting troubadour to be reckoned with.
0:32.0	Not to mention one of the most versatile
0:33.4	vocalists around today, it's the excellent Katie Tunstall.
0:37.0	Yep, we're delighted to welcome Katie to the show. She's a formidable artist
0:41.0	with a strong sense of her own identity and who clearly has tremendous passion for her craft and that's evident in abundance on record and on stage.
0:49.0	I was trying to recall, Bry, when I first came across her work, I think it was like much of the UK when she appeared on the British music show later with Jules Holland.
0:58.0	That's right, yeah, same here. I think that must have been 2004.
1:01.0	That's a good 10 years ago now. Why blime? Yeah, she performed apparently a very short notice. Black Horse on the Cherry Tree from their debut album and completely stole the show. She did the song completely solo on acoustic guitar and used a
1:14.7	looping pedal to create a rhythm track which is now recognized as one of a
1:18.1	trademarks of course and it was just a really thrilling performance and you should
1:22.1	YouTube it forth with if you've never
1:23.7	seen it go on I mean it pause this and go and have a look go on we're not going
1:29.1	anyway done okay we'll continue I don don't think Black Horse and the Cherry Tree was going to be on the album originally was it? I think it wasn't on early copies. Is that right? Yeah. And then they decided, wow, that's a smash. Good good decision so before we get to the
1:44.4	interview we'd like to give you our customary pot of history of the artist in
1:47.6	question she was born Kate Victoria Tonsdale in Edinburgh in 1975 which was raised in St Andrews in Fife.
1:54.4	She had a natural affinity for music from an early age, learning guitar, piano, and
1:58.8	flute as a teenager before heading to the East Coast of the US on a music scholarship.
2:03.2	Upon her return to the UK she studied at Royal Holloway in London
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