GABRIELLE INTERVIEW
It’s hard to believe that wonderful Gabrielle has been in the business for 14 years.
For “Always”(her fifth studio album) Gabrielle decided to go back to her roots and teamed up with producers she had worked with in the past. Julian Gallagher [“Rise”] and The Boilherhouse Boys [“Gabrielle”] It was the Boilerhouse Boys who came up with the idea for ‘Why’. ‘Why’ samples Paul Weller’s ‘Wild Wood,’ and Weller himself came to the studio to add backing vocals and play guitar. “He’s an icon, but he was so nice. He even turned up early!” A rock fan, she decided to do a homage to Primal Scream’s ‘Rocks,’ which she’s titled ‘Heartbreaker,’ and even invited the Scream to play on it. “But when they heard what we’d done, they said they couldn’t better it,” she proudly recounts. Were any songs inspired by her kids? She shakes her head, no: “I went through a phase of writing about them, but this album is about me.” Intensely private as she is, she’s opened herself up on the record, and doesn’t regret it. .It’s fourteen years since ‘Dreams,’ a span that has seen Gabrielle outlive dozens of pretenders to her soul-queen throne. The reason she’s still at the top of her game, she believes, is that she’s still an unknown quantity. “I’m not in people’s faces. I don’t like being seen – it’s not me. Even when I tour, you have to push me onstage. But I wouldn’t want to be anywhere else.”
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