My Music Episode 330 - Katie Blount

They say it can take a few albums to really write something of quality, but not with Katie’s debut album ‘Dark Water’. Katie Blount has written an album with the skill of a poet and the heart of a musician. With lines like ‘Fingerprint my mind for evidence’ and ‘I’ve been fooled by the weight of a rolling dice that only ever landed in mid-air’. These songs aren’t lighthearted tunes, but ones that draw you into the heart and soul of who we are underneath our disguises. ‘The American Song’ came from an experience she had in America as she travelled by train for three days straight. Someone she sat next to, told her their whole life story as they headed south. The story was full of casualties from a past they had not yet surrendered. Everyone on the train was trying to escape a hurricane and so a story of freedom and escape from the inside and out was born. Talking about ‘The American Song’ Katie said ‘Even though our stories may be different what we feel is the same.’ Then there are her more unusual melodies that twist and bend into unexpected places, melodies like ‘Dark Water’ that convey how someone sees a relationship ending through someone’s quiet distances. A melody so unique it reminds you of no one and is yet strangely familiar, until comparisons seem futile.