Loved-up Sandi adores being a California girl
OVESTRUCK Sandi Thom already has boyfriend Joe Bonamassa’s Valentine’s Day giftsorted. She will beexpressing her devotion for the handsome rock virtuoso by releasing, on February 14, the warm, romantic single, Love You Like a Lunatic.The Banff-born singer-songwriter says: “There is no doubt this is the guy. No doubt I am in love. I think it is lovely for anybody to have a song that is inspired by them. It is a great compliment.”
A stand-out track on her new album, Flesh and Blood, it tells the US blues-rock guitarist everything he probably already knows about her feelings. “The sentiment is coming from somewhere deep down inside and it just spews out of you,” says Sandi, 30.
The Malibu- based musician claims that living the good life in the exclusive California colony for the rich and famous has not made any real difference to her.
“My life has changed for the better, but I am still the same person,” she says. “I am nomadic by nature anyway, so I pretty much just hang my hat wherever I go and try to be happy. I love where I live but I love coming back to the homeland.”
The three Scottish dates on her UK tour – Glasgow’s King Tuts, Aberdeen’s Lemon Tree and Edinburgh’s Picture House on November 10, 11 and 12 – have been chosen specifically for sentimental reasons. Sandi declares: “Tuts was one of the first gigs I ever played when I had some success. The Lemon Tree being a place I used to go when I was younger to watch other people play. And the first time I played The Picture House was with Joe before we were together. It was the moment when we finally realised we loved each other.”
Since blasting onto the music scene with 2006’s chart-topper I Wish I Was a Punk Rocker With Flowers In My Hair, Sandi has begun calling the shots with her own record label. The hands-on control has resulted in an album of new and old songs that top anyone’s wildest hopes for her. Once derided for allegedly having a shrewd marketing campaign to thank for her sudden rise to stardom, Sandi will silence any doubters with this 12-song CD reminder of what she does well.
She says: “Being a musician is a very privileged life to lead and the one thing that perpetuates it is the music.
“It is not for the faint hearted but I have weathered the storm. At the end of the day, I would never be a happy person if I gave up on it.“The one thing I know in life is that, if you do something of quality, at some point it will break through the clouds and shine. You just have to keep the faith and keep going.
“That is the journey I have been on since the first album.”
Gavin Docherty
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