JOAN As Policewoman plays The Belgrave Music Hall in Leeds on Saturday on her 12-date tour in support of her new album, The Classic.
“I’m in the best place I’ve ever been in my life,” says soul and torch singer Joan Wasser, reflecting on her fourth album of original material and her first since The Deep Field in 2011.
Wasser came to attention as a member of Antony Hegarty’s The Johnsons and Rufus Wainwright’s band, before releasing Real Life in 2006, followed by 2008’s To Survive, written in the aftermath of her mother’s death, on top of having already lost boyfriend Jeff Buckley.
Where death and depression had been her former muses, now a new sense of joyful tranquillity prevails in her 21st century Brooklyn take on Al Green’s Hi-Records sounds as Wasser’s voice surfs waves of horns and organ.
Saturday’s 8pm gig has sold out but you can see Joan As Policewoman in her debut appearance on Later...With Jools Holland on BBC2 on April 22 and 25.
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