And I was looking at it one day and this song came to me all in a rush. I asked her if she would mind if I called my song “Heartleap” and eventually the album was called Heartleap, too. She was very good about it and said ‘Yes, of course.’ So it was sort of a collaborative effort. But then when Just Another Diamond Day finally came out in 1970, you decided to abandon your musical career altogether. Why? Your computer may be infected with malware or spyware that makes automated requests to our server and causes problems. Young, Rob (2010). Electric Eden: Unearthing Britain's Visionary Music . Faber and Faber. pp.41–42. ISBN 9780865478565. Songwriter/Composer: BUNYAN JENNIFER VASHTI". Repertoire.bmi.com. Archived from the original on 10 January 2016 . Retrieved 12 August 2014.

Michael Keefe. "What Is New Folk? A Genre Profile". About.com. Archived from the original on 12 December 2007 . Retrieved 7 July 2008. Leach, Jeanette (2010). Seasons They Change: The Story of Acid and Psychedelic Folk . Jawbone Publishing. pp.120–121. ISBN 9781906002671. And for me, that was just devastating. To think that I’d made somebody else so unhappy was just awful.Paphides, Peter (2000). "Just Another Diamond Day – Review". Time Out magazine . Retrieved 6 September 2015. In June 2014, she announced her third and final album, Heartleap. She wrote, "The whole point of the album was finally to learn a way that would enable me to record the music that is in my head, by myself. I neither read nor write music, nor can I play piano with more than one hand at a time, but I have loved being able to work it all out for myself and make it sound the way I wanted. I've built these songs over years. The album wouldn't have happened any other way." Heartleap was released on 7 October in the U.S. via DiCristina and 6 October in the UK via FatCat Records. [24] The cover artwork was by Bunyan's daughter, Whyn Lewis, who also did the artwork for Lookaftering. [25] Jennifer Vashti Bunyan (born March 2, 1945) [2] [3] is an English singer-songwriter. Beginning her career in the mid-1960s, she released her debut album, Just Another Diamond Day, in 1970. The album sold very few copies and Bunyan, discouraged, abandoned her musical career. By 2000, her album had acquired a cult following; it was re-released and Bunyan recorded more songs, initiating the second phase of her musical career after a gap of thirty years. [4] She released two more albums: Lookaftering in 2005, and Heartleap in 2014. Disillusioned, Bunyanreturned to Scotland where she dedicated her life to raising her family. But like a time capsule, over the years “Just Another Diamond Day” was discoveredby new generations and increasing numbers of enthusiasts began to seek its treasures. The albums popularity grew with each reissue and firmly found its place in the world, reigniting Bunyans call to live the musical dream of her 17 year-old self some 30 years after the debut that destroyed it.

Heartleap, your third and most recent album, came out in 2014, almost a decade after you released Lookaftering. Why did it take so long?This fact is reflected by her leaving the hustle and bustle of London behind her in the late 1960s, as she travelled on a pilgrimage to the north of Britain, with only a green gipsy like wagon, a horse called Bess, a dog named Blue and Robert. She was obviously more connected to/in tune with the earth than Drake would have been, and this really comes through beautifully in her musical style... But either way, these two artists were amazing song writers, which is probably the reason why Joe Boyd (legendary producer and founder of Witchseason Records) showed equally as much interest in both their music.