Joe writes: I have been an Edwina Hayes fan ever since the demo of The Road appeared on a National Band Register CD in the late nineties. There's an all-too unusual purity to her voice and her songwriting. If she had more ambition and nous perhaps she would be huge, or then again, perhaps that would be incompatible with purity.
She made an album called Out On My Own for Warner which featured most of her best songs, but it was overproduced (not enough focus on the purity).
Her cover of Randy Newman's Feels Like Home featured on the soundtrack to the Cameron Diaz film My Sister's Keeper and I guess the film was just shown on UK TV because Edwina appeared in the lower reaches of the chart.
Here's the original demo version of The Road, a little rough around the edges and very long but who cares when the voice and song are this good:
And here's Bonnie Raitt singing Feels Like Home (Edwina's version is here):
She made an album called Out On My Own for Warner which featured most of her best songs, but it was overproduced (not enough focus on the purity).
Her cover of Randy Newman's Feels Like Home featured on the soundtrack to the Cameron Diaz film My Sister's Keeper and I guess the film was just shown on UK TV because Edwina appeared in the lower reaches of the chart.
Here's the original demo version of The Road, a little rough around the edges and very long but who cares when the voice and song are this good:
And here's Bonnie Raitt singing Feels Like Home (Edwina's version is here):
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