Emily Smith launches new album 'Too Long Away' at Edinburgh's Coda Music...

Emily Smith's new album 'Too Long Away' was launched on Saturday at Edinburgh's Coda Music on the Mound to a packed shop floor of folkies eager to hear the follow up to Emily's previous albums 'A Different Life' & 'A Day Like Today'. After a short set with her long time musical partner and co-producer of 'Too Long Away', Jamie McClennan - Emily told the Garden Sessions "I guess I've just come atep further on in terms of my own songwriting, on this album there's five self penned tracks and maybe not in quite as traditional genre, there's maybe a step away from that, but also there are five traditional tracks on there as well. I guess the main difference is that there are no instrumental sets..."

'Too Long Away' was Iain Anderson's 'album of the week' on BBC Radio Scotland, it recieved the same accolade from channel4.com, Emily Smith was also the BBC Young Traditional Musician Of The Year 2002 and was one the Garden Sessions 'songs of the year' 2006 for her rendition of Robert Tannahill's 'Lay Me On the Wintry Lea'.

And, some exclusive news for fans of Emily Smith's work on Dr. Freeman's 'Complete Songs Of Robert Tannahill' - after having worked the song into her own live sets, she intends to record her own take on 'Fle We Tae Some Desert Isle' when work begins on her next album.

more info at emilysmith.org

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