Sensitivity from Ramshackle Heart by Lach

Lach: "OK, here's the deal, sometimes I write my songs in dreams. Sensitivity was the first time it happened. In the dream my friend Roger Manning, the first Antifolker to get signed to a record deal, was standing in the Chameleon Club (which I was managing at the time) and he played this song in a fast bluegrass style. I woke up and wrote it down. It felt weird at first like I had stolen his song until I realized it was my dream, my subconscious and my song. I played it for years in a very fast, Ramones style. We tried it that way a few times during these sessions but it just didn't gel. Than, during our last session when I had rearranged the studio for an intimate live, acoustic feel I asked the crew to try the song again but to play it as slow as possible and for Neil and I to swap singing chores like Dylan and Cash do on Girl From The North Country. Worked like a charm and we had our take. I've played it this way ever since."

Lach, founder of the Antifolk movement and star of BBC Radio 4's The Lach Chronicles.

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