2019-01-10
19 分钟You're listening to Song Exploder,
where musicians take apart their songs and piece by piece tell the story of how they were made.
My name is Tao Nguyen.
Andrew Hosier-Byrne is a Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter from Ireland.
His debut single from 2013, Take Me to Church, was a massive multi-platinum hit.
In September 2018, Hosier released the song Nina Cried Power,
which features the legendary gospel singer Mavis Staples.
In this episode, Hosier breaks down how he made the song,
and Mavis Staples tells the story of how she got involved.
My name is Andrew Hosier-Byrne.
I go by Hosier.
Early 2017, after tour,
I moved back into the countryside near where my family is from and kind of was living alone in a bungalow in County Wicklow in Ireland,
which is just where the countryside begins, near the coast.
And I was kind of taking some time out and I was getting back into the writing process.
I fell into kind of a late night sleep schedule where I'd work till,
you know, three, four, five in the morning and sleep till whatever time.
Late one night in Wicklow,
I just was playing around with some dark chords in a minor key on this piano I had in the house.
For a certain type of ballad, maybe it seems to be a place I tend to go to,