• #6 Chris Wood on songwriting, authenticity and identity

  • Mar 29 2021
  • Length: 48 mins
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#6 Chris Wood on songwriting, authenticity and identity

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  • This episode’s conversation is with award-winning singer, songwriter and guitarist Chris Wood. His songs are full of warmth, poetry and observation, infused with a tangible sense of time and place. In this conversation, we discuss his formative experiences as a chorister, authenticity as a singer and his own brand of ‘British Soul,’ plus much more.

    We talk about:

    -his creative process as a songwriter

    -his experience English choral tradition

    -the concept of soul and authenticity in music

    -what we can learn from moths and butterflies

    -the human compulsion to create and produce

    -finding meaning in the small moments of life

    -his love for Tom Waits’s music

    ‘So Much To Defend’ – studio version

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEy8VCdzwlM

    ‘This Love Won’t Let You Fail’ – live on Radio 2

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUyg1K20KjE

    Chris’s music on Bandcamp:

    https://chriswoodfolkmusician.bandcamp.com/

    Podcast playlist:

    https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1TWeFKowQ9tCSOEPQ8xmvQ?si=FoCok6QRRfSIyfMMoFtcNQ

    James's website:

    www.james-sills.com
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