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BiTS: And what else have you done? You've got a lot of singles and EPs and that sort of

thing?

LE: Yeah, so I started releasing, I mean, I've been
writing and releasing music for a long time, but in
2020, I kind of really knuckled down and kind of really
honed this bluesy sound, which, well, it's kind of my

own sound really, but it is definitely blues inspired,
and I made a record called 'State of Mind' which was
released then in 2022, and that really put me on the
map. I got to support some amazing artists on tour

like Robert Jon & the Wreck and Cardinal Black. Then
of course, it was time to make a new record, so by the
time 2024 rolled around, I felt like I was really kind of
excited about the kind of music I wanted to make and
the influences, so I wrote a 12-track album which is
coming out very soon. And yeah, I've been rolling out all the new singles since May, which

has been amazing really. I've been excited to see how everyone's reacting to all the new
music, so it's been exciting.

BiTS: Well, before we get to the new album there's really a question I want to ask you,
what sort of singer do you think you are because I hear a lot of country music in the way
that you perform but I guess it's maybe a chance or something, or how do you label

yourself?

LE: You know, I find it hard to label myself, but everyone else seems to want to label me
[laughs]. I feel like I have so many influences, and maybe I do have a country tone in my
voice, a folky tone in my voice. Maybe that's why people want to call it country, but I
definitely feel like it's all about the song for me. I would like to just be known as a

singer-songwriter that dabbles and blend genres really because I know I'm not like a
classic blues singer and it's not classic country either, so
I feel like it definitely blurs the lines of the genre.

BiTS: You have occasionally quite a powerful voice, to
say the least [chuckles].

LE: Yeah, I mean, I love singing and my voice is my
instrument, you know, and I've been singing so long, so
it's quite important for me to like deliver the vocal, and
I push myself with the vocals on this new record.

BiTS: Let's talk about “Out of the Dark” then. It was

released in October, I believe. When did you actually
make it?

LE: I actually just didn't finish making it until January this year. So all the songs pretty
much were written by January, and I'd recorded a lot of stuff and then I kind of had it all
ready to go by the end of January.