Susy Wall, singer songwriter, ahead of Album launch at Black Country Museum.

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Susy Wall has taken inspiration from stories of the Black Country so to launch the album there will be a concert at Black Country Museum. We catch up with her ahead of the event.

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00:00Hi, I'm Susie Waugh and I'm a singer-songwriter from the Black Country.

00:04Can you tell us about your new album?

00:07Yeah, sure. So the new album is called Black Lights

00:09and it's an album that celebrates the creativity within the Black Country.

00:14So it's full of stories and songs about people, places, landscapes

00:20and was inspired by some of the Black Country creatives that I've met and come across over the last few years

00:27and it's been a joy, a joy to make.

00:30And you're launching the album here at the Workers' Institute?

00:32I am, yes. I am going to be here on the 4th of July, the evening of the 4th of July

00:36and I'm going to have some spoken words, some lovely local poets are going to be joining me.

00:43I have a band joining me as well and it's going to be a really lovely event

00:47so I feel absolutely chuffed to bits that I'm able to come to this wonderful building.

00:52Can you play something to give people a taste of what they can expect?

00:55Yeah, absolutely.

00:57So this is a song that was written and inspired by Liz Berry

01:02and her great aunt who was sent off to Nova Scotia as a home child.

01:09So this one is called Home Child.

01:10Brother of mine

01:27I hate to leave you so far behind

01:39Your sister will always be

01:49So say you'll come and look for me

01:58Mother

02:08Mother

02:09I can feel

02:13Your hand

02:15As I sail towards

02:21Stranger's land

02:25On misty waters

02:30I await

02:32My fate

02:35And all I know

02:39Is miles away

02:44I'm a home

02:48Home Child

02:51I'm a home

02:56Child

02:58So far from home

03:05Child

03:07They call it Nova Scotia

03:13But it's not where I belong

03:16Doesn't even look or smell like home

03:20Doesn't even look or smell like home

03:20I've been sending you my letters

03:25But there's nothing in return

03:29This must be how it feels

03:33To be alone

03:35Brother of mine

03:47Brother of mine

03:47Will I see you

03:54One last time

03:59Brother of mine

04:00Brother of mine

04:07So love

04:07Goodbye

04:08Glad

04:08But there's nothing in front of me

04:09Because there's nothing in front of me

04:11Of yours

04:11So love

04:12And there's nothing in front of me

04:14I love

04:17The good

04:18Goo

04:19I love

04:19Thank you

04:20tes

04:21friendly

04:22dreaming

04:22Uncle

04:23Do

04:24To

04:24Be

04:25To

04:26To

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