Oh, this is beautiful, powerful, heart-breaking. Ebony Buckle’s vocal performance is fabulously emotive, reinforced by Finn Buckle’s excellent video. The Australian singer-songwriter is now based in London and this song, written with her English husband, Nick Burns, conveys the personal trials they endured when renewing Buckle’s visa following their marriage. With lovely harmonies and building instrumentation, ‘Ghost’ becomes ultimately uplifting. Check it out.
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From up north but now hiding in rural Suffolk. An insomniac music-lover. Love discovering new music to get lost in - country, singer-songwriters, Americana, rock...whatever. Currently enjoying Nils Lofgren, Ferris & Sylvester, Tommy Prine, Jarrod Dickenson, William Prince, Frank Turner, Our Man in the Field...
Ebony Buckle’s music moves both my heart and my mind – and this song, so personal and grounded in experience, is one of her most moving of all!
Ebony Buckle is a singer-songwriter of great depth, imagination and originality; her music moves me, both emotionally and intellectually.
And ‘Ghost’ – grounded as it is in bitter, real-life experience – is, perhaps, her most moving song of all!