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 Sarah Jane Scouten (from the album Confessions available on Light Organ Records)
Using Confessions as a reveal, Sarah Jane Scouten picks pieces of her persona, sketching her likes, dislikes, and observations on life into her latest release. Choosing secrets as song fodder, Sarah Jane shares that ‘I love rattlesnakes. In the southern U.S., fiddlers still remove the rattle from their tails and place them inside their fiddles to "put the devil inside" or make them sound really good. I like how they protect themselves but only bite when they've been startled or attacked. They give warning with the rattling of their tail, but don't hesitate in self-defense. I don't tend to get angry very often. But when I do, I write “I'm a Rattlesnake”’. Pinning a target on the wall, Sarah Jane Scouten takes aim at relationships, spinning past partners on a wheel that puts them on a pedestal or under a bus with Confessions. Staccato strums wave flags for a hero’s arrival in “You Are the Medicine” while Sarah Jane Scouten turns the pages of family history with the slinky groove of “Ballad of a Southern Midwife”, scatters guitar notes like sparkling starlight underneath “Crossing the Bar”, and trots out “Show Pony” with pride for a last ride. Music was a family heirloom growing up in Bowens Island, British Columbia, Canada, Sarah Jane Scouten furthering her knowledge with studies of British and American Folk music, finding lessons at the source of the sounds from the folklorists of Vancouver Island, old time late night jams in West Virginia, the songcraft of Tennessee, and her own roots in Glasgow, Scotland. Confessions frames its stories with Folk, opening the album with an overture march leading in “Dark Side” while a sedated melody settles on “Poison Oak“ and makes the rhythm throb to propel “You Still Love Him, Kid” as Sarah Jane Scouten lets her mind wander over plucked notes in “Pneumonia (to Love)”. Listen and buy the music of Sarah Jane Scouten from AMAZON Visit the Sarah Jane Scouten website for more information
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