Anything from Grant Campbell’s album Expecting Great things. He is a singer-songwriter from Glasgow and his voice sounds like it’s coming from a different body than his own. He is a friend of my family and we used a song of his as a theme tune to a video created during a road trip my father and I took across America. That particular song always takes me back to that time, immediately back. It’s extremely powerful to me and makes me feel such strong emotions every time I listen to it - it will be timeless to me for these reasons.
Anything Dylan. His songs also take me back to happy memories. Road trips up to the highlands when I was very young - in the car Dylan was always playing - most likely Mr Tambourine man or Blowing in the Wind. I still recall looking out the window to the Scottish landscapes at night and loving being up at that time, with the sound of the harmonica coming through the radio - the flashing lights of cars coming towards us...that’s the power of a song.
Lastly, Layla by Eric Clapton- I played this a lot in the studio whilst making the collection - love the song, the drama and energy around it with the electric guitars and the wholesome sounding vocals.
All three songs mean something to me, hence to the collection - they evoke memories and I find them powerful and raw. They drive me to feel. And when I feel, I can produce and create - they are all connected.