When a song comes to us billed as featuring Sarah Jory on pedal steel, there is an element of excitement and curiosity. Excitement because Sarah is without question the finest Country instrumentalist in the UK (and has won our own best musician award two years in a row), her performances are electric - curiosity about how she will blend into the song.
With When We Move, no need for the curiosity,
just the excitement. When you combine
Sarah’s pedal steel with Victoria’s voice the result is sublime. The gentleness
of the steel matches and complements the gentle vocal from Victoria – almost as
though the two are performing a duet.
Sarah will never demand centre stage, but shares it beautifully with
Victoria.
The song itself deals with the
difficult time in a relationship when someone must back down and make the first
move to reconcile a disagreement. Those
times call for a soft approach and if it all works out the two of you are back
in tandem – moving together. The feel of
the song conjures an image of how that must go – gentle, flowing. The vocal, the pedal steel and Geoff on
acoustic guitar all blend to provide that sense of oneness.
Musically it really does all come together, with
no one element feeling more or less important than the others – much as a
relationship should ideally be! The
steel and guitar feel country, the vocal certainly has a folk feel to it.
This is not a song designed to have you up dancing, but it shows off the quality of all three performers, all adding their part to create a soft, soothing listen. You can add your own story over the top of Sarah and Geoff’s instrumentals and have a good cry – its good for you!
Wouldn’t you love to hear these three combine
again?
When We Move, the new single from Tennessee Twin
featuring Sarah Jory is available to download and stream from Friday.
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