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Jessie’s rocking it with new album

By Michelle Crean
Not only is she an Oscar and BAFTA nominated actor but all round entertainer Jessie Buckley has released a brand new rock album.
Jessie from Muckross, who won an Olivier award just weeks ago, has made the new collaborative 12-track album 'For All Our Days That Tear The Heart' with award-winning British producer and musician Bernard Butler, who played with Suede and The Tears.
It's the first time the two have worked together after being introduced by a mutual friend. It all started with a FaceTime call from Butler’s North London kitchen to Buckley’s mountaintop residence in Kerry, with their friendship growing from an unlikely shared love of Killarney
The project's first single, 'The Eagle and The Dove', which is 5 minutes and 49 seconds long and directed by Harvey Pearson, is now available to hear online.
Jessie is well known for her singing talents including her time with Killarney Musical Society growing up and her appearance as a wannabe Country Music singer in 'Wild Rose'.
The dynamic title track is built around words that Jessie had written during a low period whilst in Chicago filming 'Fargo', with her extraordinary vocal blazing an emotional vapour trail through Bernard’s chamber-folk arrangement. And the pair draw inspiration from the ensemble work of seminal jazz-folk innovators Pentangle on songs like ‘I’ve Got A Feeling’ and ‘Sweet Child’, as the rhythm section of Misha Mullov-Abbado and Chris Vatalaro effectively converse with Jessie’s bewitching vocals.
“Right now, I feel like I’ll never make another album again,” Buckley said, “because I can’t imagine another album happening the way this one did. It’s amazing that it even happened once. This obscure, organic, odd little thing that just found us.”
The album is scheduled to be released on June 10.
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