‘Here We Go 1, 2, 3’ is Heidi Talbot's fifth solo album. Produced by musical partner and husband, John McCusker, (himself recently the recent recipient of the Good Tradition honour at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards) Heidi's new album crosses the ages, jumps into the unknown, traverses oceans and musical styles – from folk, through Americana, to classic pop, and back again. The Co Kildare singer / songwriter is joined by a host of musicians and co-writers on the album, including Louis Abbott (Admiral Fallow), Duke Special, Adam Holmes and Boo Hewerdine.

Recorded in Talbot and McCusker's self-built studio, housed in a converted eighteenth-century bothy next to where they live in the Scottish Borders, ‘Here We Go, 1, 2, 3’ is a measured and unhurried long-player which reflects on birth, and death, and getting older, from gorgeous country-pop meditation ‘The Year That I Was Born’ (co-written with Louis Abbott), through downtime bluegrass psalm ‘Do You Ever Think Of Me’, to exquisite mortal jig ‘Time To Rest’, written by Adam Holmes.

Celestial torch song ‘Chelsea Piers’ (co-written with Duke Special and inspired by The Pogues) conjures a languid, late-night New York and recalls Talbot's years in the US, during which she sang with Cherish The Ladies, performed at the White House, and dreamed of home. Her cover of Natalie Merchant's ‘Motherland’ is particularly resonant in light of this.

Heidi Talbot is an award-winning folk singer fromCo. Kildare in Ireland. Her last album, ‘Angels Without Wings,’ featured modern, original songs taking their inspiration from the world of traditional music, with guest contributions from artists as diverse as Mark Knopfler, Jerry Douglas, King Creosote, Julie Fowlis and Tim O’Brien. A former member of Irish-American supergroup Cherish The Ladies, her solo 2008 breakthrough ‘In Love And Light’ won her international acclaim, including a US Indie Acoustic Award which signalled her music’s crossover appeal.