Emily Barker is best known as the writer and performer of the award-winning theme to BBC TV’s Wallander starring Kenneth Branagh. It will be almost exactly three years since she performed an incredible sold-out show in Hall One with her previous band The Red Clay Halo, with whom she recorded three acclaimed albums.

She has since gone on to write and record her first feature film soundtrack (for Jake Gavin’s lauded debut feature Hector starring Peter Mullan and Keith Allen), record and release an album of solo versions of her early songs (the UK Americana Album of the Year nominated album The Toerag Sessions) and a collaboration with two Nashville-based singer-songwriters (Applewood Road, a remarkable album of original songs recorded live around a single microphone, dubbed ‘flawless’ by The Sunday Times).

Her new album has been recorded at Sam Phillips Recording Service in Memphis with Grammy winner Matt Ross-Spang (Jason Isbell, Margo Price) and an all star cast of Memphis session players. For Emily’s fans, it will be a new sound; for Emily herself, it’s a return to where her love of music started: far away from Memphis or London, singing her heart out to Aretha Franklin records in her bedroom in sleepy Bridgetown, Western Australia.