it don’t bother me /
good morning diner
Following her acclaimed St Peter collection and successful opening slots for Nick Mason' Saucerful of Secrets, Robyn Hitchcock, and The Dream Syndicate, Emma Tricca was anticipating another busy and productive year.
Now she finds herself trying to ensure that remains so, whilst grappling with the restrictions of life under lockdown. The enforced downtime has found Emma reflecting on old favourites and major influences, leading her to revisit a recent recording, Bert Jansch’s ‘It Don’t Bother Me’, with the St Peter personnel (Pete Galub, Jason Victor, and Steve Shelley).
Stirred by what she heard, she passed it to Sean Read (Dexys, Edwyn Collins, Rockingbirds) at the Famous Times Studios, who added organ and horns and mastered the track. It’s always a good time to be reminding ourselves of Bert, and this impressive reading certainly serves him well.
From an initial, deliberate simplicity of guitar and voice, the track grows; organ, horns, and band reveal themselves in a full flowering replete with hues of baroque and psych. Coupled with ‘Good Morning Diner’ - a song she wrote some years back in Austin - an out-take from Relic, produced by Carwyn Ellis (Pretenders) to which Sean adds more magic, and restores Sharon Forbes' strings; it recalls a time when the limitations on our horizons were still no more than those on our dreams.