Heather Nova - Walk This World

Around about this time 25 years ago I started listening to The Evening Session on Radio 1, which began a deviation into indie, alternative and metal that lasted quite some time. Here is one of the, yes, guitar-based tunes I hold responsible for sucking me in.

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