You're listening to Nicod Lee's Amphit music, a podcast about songs and songwriters.

My name is Mark Lintonmeyer.

My guest for episode 194 is Vashdi Bunyan, an acoustic singer-songwriter who started writing

and recording in 1964 was discovered by Andrew Lou Geultam, the manager of the Rolling Stones,

and so recorded some with him and with some other folks in the late 60s, you're right

now hearing Train Song, a single from 1966.

This and other songs for the period were re-released on some things stick in your mind

2007.

The first song we'll be discussing today is I Want to Be Alone, an original 1965

B-side to a Rolling Stones cover song after a handful of recordings she quit music to travel

up country in a horse and wagon, and she wrote about this experience in her recently released

autobiography Wayward, just another life to live, which is really what she's promoting

today.

However, at the end of that journey, she recorded an album commemorating the trip called

Just Another Diamond Day that was released in 1970.

We're going to discuss the song Rosehip November from that.

After that album, she quit music yet again until that 1970 album was rediscovered in the

early Aughts.

She then recorded an album in 2005 called Look Aftering.

We're going to talk about the song Wayward, and we'll conclude by listening to the title

track to her last album to date 2014's Hearts Leap.

Vashdie's website is anotherday.co.uk.

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