Artist: Billy Bragg
Hometown: Barking, Essex
Song: “I Will Be Your Shield”
Album: The Million Things That Never Happened
Release Date: October 8, 2021
Label: Cooking Vinyl
In Their Words: “To me this is the heart and soul of the album. I’ve come to the conclusion that empathy is the currency of music — that our job as songwriters is to help people come to terms with their feelings by offering them examples of how others may have dealt with a situation similar to that in which listeners find themselves. After what we’ve all been through, the idea of being a shield, physically, emotionally, psychologically, really resonates.” — Billy Bragg
Photo credit: Jill Furmanovsky
