Frazey Ford

One of the defining features of The Be Good Tanyas is Frazey Ford's distinctive vocals. David Honigmann said in the Financial Times "as a lead singer, Frazey is poised halfway between folk and soul, paying simultaneous obeisance to Bob Dylan and Otis Redding". Her influences run near the surface - you can hear in her songs the combination of soul and folk that fuelled artists like Donny Hathaway and Joni Mitchell - but the stories of her new album Indian Ocean are all her own.