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As usual, this week’s Stuart Maconie’s Freak Zone opens my ears to unbelieveably unique music, but even more so, he brings me another mind-expanding story about a musician. This week he introduces me to Vashti Bunyan - a true blue 60’s hippie singer songwriter - she was even a friend of Donovan (whose ‘Gift From a Flower to a Garden’ was my first album!). Much like The Syn - who Stuart told us about a few weeks ago, Vashti also made her first album over 30 years ago, then disappeared. Now, at age 60, she’s come out with her second album. She says she ‘…lost her voice.’ Peter Ross has a good piece about her in the Sunday Herald.

Vashti’s story brings to mind, one of my own musical poems Tribute to Ani Defranco inspired by her song ‘Face up and Sing’.