Notes from Robyn on Patreon in 2020.
Two more songs from Charlie’s attic in Cardiff, in August 2013: demos for ‘The Man Upstairs’.
I wrote ‘Recalling The Truth’ feeling desolate that I might not see Emma again. We had only just met. She was based in Nashville and I was extricating myself from my life in London. Who knew that only 7 years later we’d both be in lockdown together in Tennessee with a pair of Scottish Folds? This version is a tad less somber than the one I recorded later that year with Joe Boyd.
I love outtakes: they have all the potential that finished, produced, tidy versions seem to lack. I see all my records as blueprints, really. Now with Patreon you can assemble an infinite number of my albums any way you want, and I could be sitting opposite you at a table, in need of a toothbrush. Like Bowie when all he could afford was instant coffee, and coming up with gems like ‘Quicksand’.