Vashti Bunyan - a podcast by Zig at the gig
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Vashti Bunyan is an English singer-songwriter. Beginning her career in the mid-1960s, she released her debut album, Just Another Diamond Day in 1970. The album sold very few copies, and Bunyan was discouraged, and abandoned her musical career. By 2000, her album had acquired a cult following; it was re-released, and Bunyan recorded more songs, initiating the second phase of her musical career after a gap of thirty years. She subsequently released two more albums: Lookingaftering in 2005 and Heartleap in 2014.
Wayward, Just Another Life to Live
In 1968, Vashti Bunyan gave up everything and everybody she knew in London to take to the road with a horse, wagon, dog, guitar, and her then-partner.
They made the long journey up to the Outer Hebrides in an odyssey of discovery and heartbreak, full of the joy of freedom and the trudge of everyday reality, sleeping in the woods, fighting freezing winters and homelessness. Along the way, Vashti wrote the songs that would lead to recording her 1970’s album Just Another Diamond Day, the lilting lyrics and guitar conveying innocent wonder at the world around her whilst disguising a deeper turmoil under the surface.
From an unconventional childhood in post-war London to a fledgling career in mid-sixties pop, to the despair and failure to make any headway with her own songs, she rejected the music world altogether and left it all behind. After retreating to a musical wilderness for thirty years, the rediscovery of her recordings in 2000 gave Vashti a second chance to write, record and perform again.
Vashti's Info
Wayward, Just Another Life to Live. (Links to find Vashti's Book)
https://www.amazon.com/Wayward-Just-Another-Life-Live/dp/1474621937
https://www.whiterabbitbooks.co.uk/titles/vashti-bunyan/wayward/9781474621939/
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