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Over three albums, including the multi Golden Guitar winner Beautiful Circle, Sara Storer has shown herself to be this country’s pre-eminent chronicler of life in the bush.
Land Cries Out, the lead single from her forthcoming album Silver Skies, carries on a tradition of writing intelligent and uniquely Australian songs from the rural heartland. In conjunction with co-producer Matt Fell and The Waifs’ Josh Cunningham, Sara has embraced some refreshing new sounds.
Electric guitars and drums add a powerful sense of foreboding to Sara’s tale of an imagined conversation between a farmer and the land he is being forced to leave. This is a unique perspective on an all too common situation in Australia, sprung from a conversation Sara had with her mother – herself a farmer’s wife - at her kitchen table.
The women were bemoaning the effects on all parties when families are forced to leave properties that have been theirs for generations. “Who will come and will they treat it with the love and respect the previous family did?” Sara asks. “There’s a connection. When he looks after his land, the land returns the love by producing good things. I wanted the song to talk about the land having a soul. I wanted to sing it from the point of view of the land, to be able to call “don’t give up”.
Land Cries Out is a timely reminder both of how tough life is on the land, and what a talent we have in Sara Storer.
Land Cries Out | Radio September 3
Digital Download | September 15
The new album Silver Skies is released November 3
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