Grace Cummings
Tajette O’Halloran/Courtesy of the artist
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Tajette O’Halloran/Courtesy of the artist
Grace Cummings
Tajette O’Halloran/Courtesy of the artist
- “On and On”
- “Widespread Man”
- “Ramona”
Grace Cummings‘ voice sounds prefer it was shot throughout the universe, gathering momentum and absorbing every little thing it got here throughout in its journey to your ears. It carries a variety of weight.
On her 2022 album, Storm Queen, the Australian singer-songwriter’s vocals are entrance and heart, with instrumentation that accentuates the emotional resonance of her singing. On her new album, Ramona, the preparations have risen to match the depth of Cummings’ singing.
It is a sonically dense album, produced by Jonathan Wilson and recorded in Topanga Canyon, simply outdoors of Los Angeles. On this session, Cummings talks about why she needed a bigger-sounding file; how Bob Dylan‘s “To Ramona” impressed the title monitor; and why capturing your feelings in a track is one thing you both have or you do not.
This episode of World Cafe was produced and edited by Miguel Perez. Our senior producer is Kimberly Junod and our engineer is Chris Williams. Our programming and reserving coordinator is Chelsea Johnson and our line producer is Will Loftus.