Rosealie Deighton's songwriting heroes comprise all the classic names from Tom Waits to Bob Dylan. Among her fellow female artists, unsurprisingly she's a huge fan of Emmylou Harris. But she also cites Maria McKee, Mary Margaret O'Hara, Bonnie Raitt and Dolly Parton as inspirations. ''It's the pure, classic singer-songwriter sensibility that really moves me,''' she says. ''But I'm also a complete sucker for bluegrass music ever since I heard it at all those folk festivals as a child.''
She is currently writing and demoing with Sam Dixon, Boo Hewerdine and Dave Marks. Her new songs are far more raw and stripped down and represent the mature honing of her craft and the culmination of all her experience. There will be another album - but only when she's ready and strictly on her own terms. Connoisseurs of great songwriting are in for a treat.
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