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The child in the troubadour

Reconnecting with the younger songwriter inside.

Tobermory, on the Isle of Mull

I’m listening to my new album, which I’ve just finished, and reconnecting with my ten-year-old self.

Why?

Well, in these weeks after finishing the album - this collection of memories, stab at the future, thoughts, opinions, and I hope some fun - I feel closest to myself as the child songwriter, when I wasn’t writing for ‘albums’, for record companies, to deadliness - before I had an audience at all.