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CHOPPING WOOD is the first track from Chasing Tales EP released Sept. 2013 with Searching For Dandelions. The song was written and performed by Jo Bywater feat. Andy Jones on Electric Guitar and Backing Vocals. Mastered by Russell Cottier.

Chasing Tales was voted Winner of FATEA AWARDS Best EP/Mini Album/Single 2013.

The video was devised, directed and edited by Andrew Ab (www.andrewab.com) and was filmed in and around Liverpool and Sefton Park with lots of lovely people who came along to help us chop wood, build fires, eat marshmallows and blow candles out in an office. These lovely people are are named at the end of the video.

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Chasing Tales EP is Acoustic Blues slide guitar meets finger-picking brain food. Raw and finely-crafted beauty with a dark twist, soothed with harmonies, melodies and textures. A worthy follow-up to 2010 album Cycle Grace Pulse Break in creative growth. The EP features guest performances from Andy Jones (Just by Chance) and Blythe Cooper and was mastered by Russell Cottier (Parr St. Studios). It is released in collaboration with Searching For Dandelions Label/Collective. Cover Artwork by Jo Bywater.

Reviews:
'Respect to Jo for bringing that something new and different to the Listening Post and for her original quirky song format bringing a twist on the genre. Well done'. -- Fresh on The Net.

'Jo Bywater's four track disc serves as a noble entry to highlight her potential as an upcoming folk-blues mistress'. - Blues Matters

'delicious, laid-back piece of blues inspired, folk-tinged Americana that slides effortlessly from soft expectation to hard-edged understanding. There's a great deal to Jo and her music. This EP, although really only a taster, serves to showcase an exceptional talent. This lady can craft a tune, no doubt about it. ' - Folkwords

'Unorthodox, uncompromising, simply brilliant..purely on the evidence of this latest EP, Jo is an absolutely extraordinary talent - as singer, a darned accomplished stylist with an unusual voice, and as a guitarist pretty phenomenal too' - FATEA

'..an excellent musician and most engaging performer...this EP showcases Jo's emergence as a fine finger-picker and slide player who is capable of building a great deal of drama and soulful expression into her arrangements. It is a fine recording which most certainly leaves you wanting more' - Liverpool Acoustic

'an ear for the rhythmic and an ability to place words in such a way that the guitar is more than an instrument to her, it is more like a confidant, a co-conspirator in her music and Chasing Tales once exemplifies this confident and genuinely very cool woman's ability.' - Liverpool Sound & Vision

'Jo Bywater seems to flit very comfortably between Nick Drake-esque pastoral, Polly Harvey's gritty blues and the odd shade of Nirvana Unplugged -- Americana UK

LYRICS-
Chopping Wood
Chopping wood
Feed the Fire
Chopping Wood
Fuel entirely
Something stronger than you
Less forgiving than you
More reckless than you
But you don't stop
And you don't know why
(It's a) state of compulsive mind

Chopping wood
Feed the fire
Chopping wood
It burns entirely
Hungrier than you
But it rages like you
It's darker than you
So full of light
And you don't know why
(It's a) state of compulsive mind

Chopping wood
Wiping sawdust from your eyes
Looking up
Raining splinters from the sky
Hunting with an absent mind
Burn yourself alive
It's all you've ever lived by
Now you're over-exposed and blind
It's a state of, a state of
It's a state of compulsive mind

There's a mystery in the flames
There's an urge you can't explain
It crackles and burns
Soothes the rain
But there's a peace in the dark
And the beauty of stars
Abundance reborn
The freshness of dawn

Walk away from the eclipsing light
That leaves you living in the shadows of your own life

Start building from the ground up x 4

Chopping wood
Dance with fire
Chopping wood
Taming dragons
Chopping wood x 3
It's a passion for fuel
Curious for truth
Inspiring renew
You know why
It's a passion for fuel
Curious for truth
Inspiring renew
You know why
You know why
Its state of, a state of,
It's a state of compulsive mind
© 2013. Jo Bywater.