KT Tunstall - Acoustic Extravaganza 2 (2017)

Born in 1975, Scottish singer/songwriter KT Tunstall – not short for anything, the KT is just an alternate spelling of Katie – comes from the quaint university town of St. Andrews. Due in part to being adopted at birth, her imagination and creative side flourished from early on as she thought about how her life could have gone in any given direction. As she was growing up, her physicist father would take Tunstall and her brothers into the St. Andrews observatory to look at the sky, thus fueling her youthful love for space and sci-fi. It wasn't until discovering hair metal through a brother that music really started to become important to her, and when it did, her affection for spacy things was reflected in her favorite album, David Bowie's Hunky Dory. Tunstall picked up playing piano and flute at a young age, learned to sing by listening to Ella Fitzgerald, and began writing her own songs in her mid-teens. At 16, she taught herself the guitar and continued to hone her writing skills with sentimental love songs. A scholarship to the Kent School, a private prep school in Connecticut, brought her experiences outside of St. Andrews and Scotland. She formed her first band there, the Happy Campers, and enjoyed seeing shows by 10,000 Maniacs and the Grateful Dead. Next came a music course at London's Royal Holloway College, before heading back home and immersing herself in the local grassroots scene that birthed bands like the Fence Collective and the Beta Band. Around this time, KT was also listening to a lot of Billie Holiday, Lou Reed, and James Brown, among others, and soon formed a group with the Fence Collective's Pip Dylan.

TRACKLIST

1. Maybe It's A Good Thing (4:51)
2. Fade Like A Shadow (3:29)
3. Hollywood Hill (3:54)
4. Evil Eye (4:12)
5. Ain't Nobody (5:05)
6. Hard Girls (3:21)
7. It Took Me So Long To Get Here, But Here I Am (4:31)
8. Dirty Water (3:27)
9. State Trooper (3:51)
10. The Healer (4:41)
11. You Make Loving Fun (3:56)