Seventh album for Rustington country-influenced singer-songwriter Jules Winchester

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Rustington-based American country-influenced singer-songwriter Jules Winchester is releasing her seventh album, Time Will Change Me.

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00:00Good morning. My name is Phil Hewitt,

00:04Group Arts Editor at Sussex Newspapers.

00:06Really lovely to speak again to Jules Winchester.

00:08And goodness, this is album number seven since 2011.

00:13Album number seven is called For Time Will Change Me.

00:16And the music broadly you're saying is American country influenced,

00:20but that's such an intriguing title, isn't it?

00:22For Time Will Change Me.

00:24What's the thinking behind that?

00:26Is that a kind of theme for the album?

00:28There's not really a theme for the album, but Time Will Change Me

00:32is the title of one of the songs on the album.

00:35And I think that over time,

00:40when people treat you and everything like that, you do change.

00:45And I think if other people are not going to change,

00:47then it's going to change me.

00:49Yeah. And do you feel you have changed over the time

00:52that you've been doing this?

00:54Yes, I think hopefully it comes across as a bit more mature than I used to when I first started.

01:01I learnt an awful lot by meeting lots of people along the way.

01:07And they've given me lots of advice and I've gained a lot of experience.

01:11Slow progress, but it feels as if I'm starting to get there a bit better now.

01:17Well, you say slow progress, but seven albums in 14 years sounds like pretty good going to me.

01:23Tell me a bit more about what's happening on this latest album.

01:26What are the kinds of things that you're singing about?

01:29What I'm singing about, mainly about relationships, mainly, but there's a few things about life in general.

01:36As I say, how people treat you and how it affects you inside and trying to get that.

01:41It's not just about relationships.

01:44It's about how we feel and what's going on inside and how it can affect the way we act and behave.

01:51Hopefully I'll try to get that across in some of the songs.

01:54And feeling in a good place, presumably.

01:57Yes, yes, of course. Yes, yes.

01:59Obviously, some of them are happy songs, really.

02:03Try to get across happiness as well.

02:07Dreamers, for instance, the last song on there, an acoustic song, is about, we will have a dream.

02:14I have a dream.

02:15I expect you have a dream.

02:16We've got a dream.

02:17People say they don't have a dream, but they do really.

02:19Everyone does, don't they?

02:20Yeah.

02:21They just might not want to admit to it.

02:23No, exactly.

02:24Yeah.

02:25And, yeah, just going through life and having that dream and, you know, having a hard day

02:31or something.

02:32Just think about that dream and just keep working towards that.

02:35Yeah.

02:36And tell me a bit about the writing process.

02:37Do you sit down and say, I'm going to write or does it come to you?

02:41How does it happen?

02:42Well, I can't seem to, forcing it is not a good idea because then I just get annoyed

02:47and I have to just put the guitar away and just, you know, and start again another day.

02:52But, yeah, sometimes I'll go for a walk with my dog and I'll start thinking about a tune

02:58or some lyrics and I'll quickly write them down on my phone or my dictaphone, start humming it.

03:03Yeah.

03:04And then I get home and then in the evening or something I'll start having a tinkle on

03:10the guitar and then I'll come up with an idea.

03:13And, of course, this album is with Glenn and he's been involved in quite a lot of this

03:20one and the past album that I had, The Journey.

03:23And then I might pass it to him if I'm getting stuck with something and he'll help me out

03:28with either lyrics or musically and then he'll start and say, do you want me to mix it for

03:33you or something?

03:34Yeah, please.

03:35If I get stuck.

03:36How does it feel to get that album out here?

03:39You must feel very proud.

03:41Can you sit back a bit and enjoy it objectively or are you still at the stage thinking that's

03:46me?

03:47A bit of both.

03:48A bit of both.

03:49Oh my God, did I really put that out?

03:52Yeah.

03:53That sounds awful.

03:54You know, some of them think, oh God, did I really put that on there?

03:57But that's the learning process.

03:59You know, I still, as I said, it's a slow process, still learning how to do things.

04:04And yeah, I really enjoy it.

04:07It's great.

04:08It's therapeutic as well, I find.

04:10Oh, in what sense?

04:11What sense therapeutic?

04:12I just take, as I said, life.

04:14I mean, life can be quite stressful and I find music that just takes away that stress.

04:20It's a different world, like reading a book.

04:21Yeah.

04:22You get into a different world.

04:23It gives you a different perspective, presumably.

04:26That's right.

04:27Yeah.

04:28And you just feel more relaxed and you get into that tunnel vision and you just start recording

04:33and nothing else seems to matter really.

04:35It's all good things to say.

04:37We all need our safe space, don't we?

04:40Exactly.

04:41Yes.

04:42And tunnel vision and just get headphones on and just get down to it.

04:47And in the zone.

04:48Fantastic.

04:49Exactly.

04:50Congratulations on the album.

04:51It sounds great.

04:53Thank you very much.

04:54Thank you very much indeed.

04:55Really lovely to speak to you.

04:56Thank you for having me.

04:58Thank you very much.

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