REGULAR on the South Lakeland music scene Angie Palmer is causing a stir on the national music scene with her new album Road.

After 15 years' hard gigging and two albums, the 36-year-old claims to have "found her voice" and it would appear so has everyone else.

Road, which is due for release in July/September, has been lauded by blues and folk pundits and seen Palmer hailed by Radio 2's Bob Harris as "one of Britain's best singer songwriters.

This is the Morecambe singer's third album but the first that's stirred this kind of attention.

"It's all taken us quite by surprise all of a sudden we're played on Bob Harris and everything just went mad," she said. "It's the first of our albums to attract this sort of attention."

But as she said, she has worked for it. "It takes 15 years to become an overnight success," she laughs.

And after putting two albums out on her own label (Akrasia) she's enjoying a shift in the power stakes.

"Since Bob Harris we have had three offers of distribution deals and it's been an unusual but happy experience turning two of them down!" she said.

Influenced by and compared to the likes of Joni Mitchell and Gillian Welch, Palmer's band on the album are: Mark Townson on guitar, Richard Curran on violin, mandolin and viola, Tim Franks on drums, Joel Allison on bass and Rebecca Maunder on cello.

Poised to play with one-man indie sensation Aqualung on Bob Harris Presents in summer - and start touring in September - you can still catch the singer/guitarist at the Gregson Centre in Lancaster on May 28 at 8pm, Dickie Doodles on May 29 and the at the Brewery Arts Centre's Summer Sunday on July 25.

"The whole point of doing albums is to get people to see me and that's the whole point of music for me - live performance.

"The songs on this CD are the ones I am most proud of and I think I am singing and playing better than I have ever done. It's been a long journey but I think I have finally found my voice."

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