Been a long time coming this episode.
I’ve meant to speak to Kathryn Williams – whose music I’ve loved since I was a bruised hearted teenager in the North East of England, a region that neither of us were born in, but came to call home – for ages now. Life happened. But with Kath's excellent new, 14th studio album, Night Drives out and about, I thought I needed to make it happen... and fast!
Kath is on a writing retreat, so I was grateful to her for making the time to speak to me. She’s also on her phone when we connect, so it means the audio is a bit scratchy in places. But hey, if you sat through a lot of the early episodes of The James McMahon Music Podcast, you’ve heard worse. And I think what follows is an interesting, sometimes very funny conversation - about recording on a budget, singing when no-one is listening, The Flumps, the brilliance of Ed Harcourt, robot Jimi Hendrix and more - with one of Britain’s most consistent songwriters…
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