Artist Info: The Listeners

" Tell them I came, and no one answered. That I kept my word"

From ‘The Listeners’,by Walter de la Mare.

The Listeners is Emma Thorpe - on her own or with her collaborators. And she sings in cinematic detail from a small town on the North Nottinghamshire borders.

Thorpe was born into music – her mother taught her to finger-pick, introducing her to the music of PJ Harvey, Sandy Denny, Susan Vega, Roy Harper and Bob Dylan along the way; [read more...]