Ebony Lamb Photo: Justyn Denney-Strother
Eb and Sparrow's Ebony Lamb takes us through a few of the songs that have shaped her life and art, for The Mixtape.
Ebony Lamb didn't intend to be a musician - photography and painting were her first loves. But at 29, she found her world crumbling. A mother of one, in the midst of a break-up, with her father passing away - country music really spoke to her. And her own songs began to pour out.
"For the first year, I wrote a song a day, easy. It was a backlog of emotion - of life. A lot had happened, and I didn't realise it until I started writing."
Here Ebony talks candidly with Yadana Saw about her transient upbringing, her Rudolf Steiner schooling, her wild years and how motherhood saved her.
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Music details
Artist: Karen Dalton
Song: Something On Your Mind
Composer: Dalton
Album: In My Own Time
Label: Light In The Attic
Artist: Jack Brymer and The Academy of St. Martin-In-The-Fields
Song: Concerto For Clarinet and Orchestra in A
Composer: Mozart
Album: Out of Africa OST
Label: MCA
Artist: The Pixies
Song: Debaser
Composer: Black Francis
Album: Doolittle
Label: 4AD
Artist: Nina Simone
Song: Ain't Got No I Got No Life
Composer: Arthur Terence Galt MacDermot, Gerome Ragni, James Rado
Album: 'Nuff Said
Label: RCA
Artist: 3Ds
Song: Beautiful Things
Composer: 3Ds
Album: The Venus Trail
Label: Flying Nun
Artist: Portishead
Song: Glorybox
Composer: G. Barrow, B. Gibbons, A. Utley
Album: Dummy
Label: Polydor
Artist: Gillian Welch
Song: Revelator
Composer: Welch-Rawlings
Album: Time (The Revelator)
Label: Acony
Artist: Delaney Davidson
Song: I'm So Depressed
Composer: Davidson
Album: Bad Luck Man
Label: Voodoo Rhythm
