30MusicWeek 13.07.12 INTERVIEWHONEYRYDER
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With a ‘sumptuous pop album’ on theway,Honey Ryder arewinning fans at Radio 2, Bauer and Smooth MusicWeek spoke to lead singer Lindsay
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here’s an American-like sheen about Honey Ryder’smusic - but the talented three-piece are in fact British born and
very down to earth at that, considering they’ve been flown around the world to work on their forthcoming albumwith a host ofGrammy- winningmusicians. Legendary producer PaulWorley became their
mentor and they’ve subsequently been given the nod by the CountryMusic Association in the US which is no small feat. The band aren’t ‘pure’ country though.Honey
Ryder’s second studio albumMarley’s Chains encompasses elements of classic folk and rock with a contemporary pop
appeal.Respected journo LisaVerrico said the LP offered “sumptuous pop with its feet in folk” - the sort of accolade which could help propel this British band, signed to a little London indie, to conquer the internationalmusicmarket.
ABOVE Ready for the big time: Honey Ryder album Marley’s Chains will be released on August 5, with single You Can’t Say That following a week later
O’Mahony about the group’s globe-spanning writingmission, her own person albumambitions - and the importance of earworms...
Wewere introduced to your trackMarley’sChains quite awhile ago.Has there been a delay in releasing the album? We funded our first album ourselves by raising money – we sold £350,000 of shares through word of mouth, playing gigs around the country. The long and short of it is we got signed to a small west-London based indie label,Oceanic. They’ve given us time and money to develop and write in different
countries.And EMI Label Services handles our distribution. We wanted to really concentrate on the writing
and were given the opportunity to go to Nashville to do
so.This came about when our producer looked up PaulWorley [producer forThe Dixie Chicks and Lady Antebellum] on the internet and emailed him a
track.Paul loved it and we got sent out to write with him and other high-calibre writers likeTom Douglas,Tommy Lee James and Rivers
A TASTE OF HONEY
Rutherford.These guys have all had number ones in America so we knew we were going to learn a lot. We co-wrote with lots of different people but we
still own about 75% of the album and the publishing.We thought we had the albumfinished before we went toNashville, then we went there and wrote some strong
tracks.That delayed the release.
SowasPaulWorley the centre of your new writing collaborations? Paul set us up with all these writers on the Nashville trip.We’d written with other people in England.We also went toThailand, but obviously you get different inspiration when you’re in different climates and
countries.For instance, the new single, You Can’t SayThat,we wrote in Belfast before we went on
stage.The instrumentation and all the different parts of it were written inThailand, though, so the vibe of the song is quite uplifting and has a sort of summery feel - like you can hear that we were there through the music.
YouCan’t SayThat is quite a poppy track compared to some of the others on the album.
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