Anyone who has heard Rosalie Deighton's potent voice and compelling songs will know that music is her life. In fact, there was music in her world even before she was born. ''My mother always told me that she played Emmylou Harris records to me when I was still in the womb,'' Rosalie says. ''Something must have got through because she's one of my favourite artists to this day.''

Rosalie's new album is out in March and the songs are far more raw and stripped down and represent the mature honing of her craft and the culmination of all her experience. . Connoisseurs of great songwriting are in for a treat.