We continue our journey around the UK in our search for very good singer-songwriters. This time we visit Alyth, Perthshire in Scotland the original home (although now London based) of SOTD No. 172 showcase artist the lovely Sophie Ramsay. The song today Something Old, Something New is from her debut album The Glassy Mountain released last year youtu.be/hmr1DaFsQ1c Sophie grew up in the countryside in Perthshire. A mostly feral child, she spent summers covered in mud, playing in burns and subsisting off wood sorrel and wild raspberries, and winters over-hearing the voices of ghosts in her familys old house. Sophie could always sing in tune and so often found herself lifted onto village hall stages to sing songs by Burns and Lady Nairne. In 2013 she released The Glassy Mountain, an album of original songs, produced by iconic Jim Sutherland and featuring performances from some of the best folk and jazz musicians in Scotland and the UK. The album received critical acclaim: Financial Times ****, Rock and Reel ****, fRoots undeniably beautiful listening, Folk Music Worth Hearing a timeless, outstanding work. Her previous CD of Scots songs, Ca the Yowes, had unexpected exposure when one song was featured on Radio 4s Desert Island Discs and another on the 2012 film A Lonely Place to Die. She is soon to start work on another, with multi-instrumentalist Matheu Watson and other great Scottish musicians. Sophie performs regularly, often accompanied by jazz French horn maestro Jim Rattigan. sophieramsay/
Posted on: Mon, 13 Oct 2014 13:43:13 +0000
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