Who is the Peppercorn Queen? That would be Jackie Marshall, a Queensland-raised singer-songwriter and AMP shortlisted artist with 1001 tales to tell. Her latest release is EP The Good Life, an album that has been in the planning for five years. Recorded in an old tobacco shed in New South Wales, the EP features three original songs and three covers. It also features instruments both common and unusual, including guitars, 12 strings, timpani, tuned wine glasses (on the track ‘Song for You’), piano, farm machinery and sonar pings. However, for someone who has also written for puppet theatre in Slovenia and composed country haiku songs in Japan, nothing is too unusual. The Bridge, Castlemaine – July 17 & The Main Bar, Ballarat – July 18. She’ll be back by her lovely band, Fat Lambs.
