| VANESSA CARLTON is still making music. It's true. |
| Written by Shahlin Graves |
| Tuesday, 15 November 2011 12:05 |
 Remember VANESSA CARLTON? Does 'A Thousand Miles' ring any bells? Apparently Carlton released her fourth studio album 'Rabbits On The Run' earlier this year. I had no idea... I'm guessing that you didn't either... but now we both know. Carlton says of her latest album: “I was very lucky to be offered a lovely piece of property to build a career on. I started building a house on it, but it wasn't necessarily a house I would want to live in. So I ripped down that house, and I worked with these great lumberjacks to build a really cool cabin—a place I want to drink whiskey in and hang out until the sun rises. For two years, I went through a very reclusive period. I was confused by a lot of decisions I had made, heartbroken in a lot of different ways. Once i got through the initial stage of grieving, I started studying everything around me. I became a sponge—listening to a lot of music from the '70s, classical music, reggae, just observing and paying attention. I had no one. I was completely self-contained, I left my label, had no producer. So this was me going back to the demoing process that I was doing when I was 17. In my writing, I didn’t want to waste words anymore. It was a total arts-and-crafts vibe that I was doing all by myself." Watch the music video for 'Carousel' - the lead-single from Carlton's latest album - below, as well as listen to other 2011 songs, 'Dear California' and 'I Don't Want To Be A Bride'...  |
