What makes Shona Laing’s South an essential album

Shona Laing was just 17 when she had her first national hit with ‘1905’ in 1972.

Fifteen years later, she was reintroducing herself as a different kind of artist with the 1987 album South.

In a career spanning more than five decades, Shona Laing has made albums that mark each stage of her musical life.