Mike Regenstreif hosts this edition of Saturday Morning featuring 40 songs for the last Saturday morning of 2025. Pictured: Mike Regenstreif & Maria Dunn at CKCU after Maria visited the Saturday Morn...

Amy Speace has it all. She is an outstanding vocalist, balancing raw emotion, storytelling tones and great control. She is an accomplished songwriter who displays fine musicianship and finds glorious melodies, arranged with care and sensitivity. And, importantly, she is a superb narrator of life's tales, bringing her stories to life with poetic lyricism and the detail of her characters' development.

Amy Speace opened her set at the Green Note in Camden, as she had thirteen months earlier at the Slaughtered Lamb, telling the audience she had just flown in and was a tad frazzled. Not that you could tell when she opened the set with 'There Used To Be Horses', one of her contributions to the Orphan Brigade repertoire. She followed with…

Amy Speace strips everything back – and proves how powerful her voice and songs are. Some albums feel deliberate – structured, strategised, road-mapped to the last harmony. “The Blue Rock Session” is the opposite, an album that slipped into being, written in a week of rare solitude. What emerged is the closest thing Amy Speace has ever made to a document of how she sounds live, guitar in hand, a contrast to her consistently excellent studio work, which is rich, arranged and full of colour.

Critically acclaimed singer/songwriter Amy Speace was accepted into a weeklong songwriting residency at The Blue Rock Retreat and Studio this summer and has 11 songs to show for it. Each song is delicately pieced together; some are old, and some are new, produced by her and the studio engineer, Hayes Howard, and the album, entitled naturally enough, "The Blue Rock Session…

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