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On my radar: Vashti Bunyan’s cultural highlights
The English singer-songwriter on an evocative Scottish railway museum, a much-missed painter and a forgotten American female musician
Born in 1945 and raised in London, singer-songwriter Vashti Bunyan released her debut album, Just Another Diamond Day, in 1970, inspired by a trip around the Hebrides in a horse-drawn cart. It includes the Bo’ness & Kinneil Railway, a 10-mile trip on an old steam train, which is reminiscent of childhood: musty carriages and smoke, the hypnotic clatter of wheels. A local gallery had one of his prints called Newfoundland that I had been trying to find for a while: it’s a small figure with arms raised up looking at a huge yellow sun.
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