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middle of the track, but that's something I might do in the future. At the moment I'm writing my
next record, which is called ‘Siren’.

BiTS: Yes, tell me more.

EW: Okay, so I started putting it together in January at a studio in Darlington, near Durham and I

have a wonderful engineer who's great. He understands how I work and I demoed about eight
songs, Ian, with Alessandro who played some keyboards and we put basic rhythm tracks down and
then, of course, I'd only done guide vocals because we thought oh, we've got all the time in the
world to come in and out. That was put on hold, but the good news is I have been going back
occasionally to the studio because it's a big open, airy room and me and the engineer can social

distance safely and all that and
we've started to piece it together
and I've written a few more
Terry Reid
numbers, but I have two amazing
guests joining me on the album.
First of all, Terry Reid who is a
wonderful guitarist, singer-

songwriter, legendary musician,
and he was going to be playing
Glastonbury this year because he
played the first Glastonbury, and
he was going to do the 50th-

anniversary show.

BiTS: I know what's coming
next.

EW: And he was going to come
from Glastonbury to Durham to

record my album because he's
got family in Durham. He's from
Durham, so it worked brilliantly
and, of course, this didn't happen. But we've been working remotely, Ian. He's got a studio in
California and he's been sending me amazing files of Dobro guitar and Gretsch and all fabulous

guitar parts to put on my songs.

BiTS: There's a lot of people doing that stuff at a distance now. I've got an album which is an entire
12-piece big orchestra, all recorded separately in different parts of the world.

EW: Really, oh, how gorgeous.

BiTS: It's incredible what people can do these days, so go for it is what I say.

EW: Yes, it just gets a little frustrating, I mean Terry was on WhatsApp and we had him on the desk
and we were talking about the mix and he was saying oh, I wish I was there because Terry's
experience of mixing and editing and mastering is absolutely amazing. What he doesn't know you
could write on a stamp. He's just brilliant and talking about all sorts of techniques of splitting

sounds. I won't tell you the secrets because it's going to be on the album, but it would be lovely if he
was here, but we have to work with what we've got and it's working out. I have another exciting
guest coming on my album. I was on the phone to him yesterday, Joe Bowie, who was the founder of

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