It’s real – you can say to siri or alexa or spotify “Play Feathers by Emily Dodd” and I start singing! I’ve tried it in the car, it actually works. That’s because last week, the album STAGES was officially released on all streaming channels. You can listen to the album here (on apple or spotify or amazon or youtube etc!). The song I wrote is track number 3, feathers.
Album designed by Elly Lucas Photography
You can also buy the CD here. I really hope you enjoy listening to it and to the rest of the album. Twelve of us got into a songwriting, production and performance course that ran over 4 months. It was called STAGES, it was wonderful and it was run by Moniack Mhor, Boo Hewerdine and friends – you can read more about it on my blog here.
We had a pre-launch live gig at Eden Court Theatre in Inverness – each of us performed our track live, this is us all taking a group bow at the end:
Image Credit John Wright Studio
And a few behind the scenes photos:
I also had something super exciting happen – my first air play on Black Dog Radio. The lovely musician Shirley Barr sent the STAGES album to Andy at Blackdog radio ahead of it launching and he only went and played my song! I woke up to messages saying ‘you’re on the radio’, was such a lovely surprise and then I discovered the Saturday morning folk show was broadcast from Belper – the town I was born in!
So my first ever song airplay and the first song to be played on the radio from the STAGES album was broadcast from the town the singer songwriter (me) was born in – all by random co-incidence. Here’s what my song is about:
Emily Dickinson’s poem “Hope” is the thing with feathers gifted me a melody and this in turn gave me the words for this song. If we can fly in our dreams we can soar in the here and now. Hope gives us wings – and every wing needs feathers to fly.
Really hope you enjoy Feathers and the album STAGES – if you do please play it lots of times and add it to play lists and heart it and tell friends about it. If you know any music journalists or radio presenters – please pass it on to them! And if you’re a pal of mine and you want to buy some CDs for Christmas presents, I’ve got some copies on the way so get in touch.
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