Welsh singer and guitarist, Andy Fairweather Low, has talked about providing vocals on Kate’s 2011 song, Wild Man, in a new interview for Guitar World. Wild Man was the lead single from her album 50 Words For Snow. Andy is promoting his new album, The Invisible Bluesman, the latest project in his long career which, as well as his own music, has included stints as a “guitar-playing sideman” to the likes of Eric Clapton and Roger Waters, touring with Chris Rea, Paul Carrack, and Linda Ronstadt and Emmylou Harris, recording with Joe Satriani and jamming with Jimi Hendrix.
Oh, man. This is off the scale. I’m at home, nothing’s going on. Phone rings. There’s this woman who says she’s Kate Bush. ‘Would you consider doing some vocals on a track? You’d be absolutely perfect.’ I said, ‘Well, can you send me something?’ ‘No, just come up.’ I’m apprehensive. But I get up there and gosh, she’s just fabulous. She plays me Wild Man and we record it. I get home, send my bill in: ‘Hello, Andy, I’ve just got your bill. You don’t charge enough.’ So she gave me three times more, then put the single out as Kate Bush and Andy Fairweather Low.
In 2011 Kate was asked by The Quietus about Andy’s contribution. Interviewer, John Doran: “Have you worked with Andy Fairweather Low before, the [Amen Corner] vocalist who presumably plays the role of the hirsute gentleman of the mountains?” Kate: [laughing] Hirsute? Well, no, Andy doesn’t play the hirsute beastie, he’s one of the people on the expedition into the Himalayas. But I think that Andy just has one of the greatest voices. I just love his voice. When I wrote the song I just thought, ‘I’ve got to get Andy to sing on this song because he sounds great.’ Which I think he does. He’s just got a fantastic voice.”
Read more about Andy’s music at his official site.
and a 2012 Brit award, believes that Bush, with her 2005 album Aerial and 50 Words For Snow … is mapping out a new future for female musicians. “I like the fact that she’s embracing her age, her family and her life, and that it doesn’t mean that you still can’t be a really amazing artist,” she says. “That’s what I’d like to imagine myself being like in 20 years’ time. I love how unafraid she is of taking risks. She does some crazy things on her records, especially with her voice. It sounds like there is a complete surrender to her art, and I find that really inspiring.”
“In the Ivor Novello award nominations announced yesterday, the Best Album category was a women’s only event. It is the first time this has happened in the award’s 68 year history. As I have suggested before, women are t
