Linzi Jane Morgan
Original music shaped by heart, story, and the same hands that draw and sculpt.
Songs from the Studio
'Love & Other Stories'
New Album
official album launch at the wonderful Fleece Inn barn, Bretforton, Worcestershire WR11 7JE - so looking forward to playing the album - such a magic place to do this, a real gem of a venue in the heart of the Cotswolds, hope you can make it, spread the word!
Thursday 19th February 2026
- new album live launch, featuring Marion Fleetwood & Paul Johnston - please put the date in your diary 7.00pm doors £5.00 entry
'Love & Other Stories'
Beautifully crafted original songs
The new album official release 20th February 2025
‘This new body of songs was started as a demo, and over the following 2 years we kept recording, I was writing new songs, re-working old songs & just loving the process of writing & recording. Experimenting with harmonies & vocals, working with Paul Johnston, co-producing my songs @ Rhythm studios, Paul is both amazing sound engineer & multi-talented musician. We were in the first band together back in our teens, so kind of amazing to come full circle too. Marion Fleetwood joined us to play on the demos & has played on every song for both albums, her playing brings another layer of beauty, a sublime timelessness, which has quite often has had me in tears, just beautiful’.
Linzi Jane Morgan - writer, co-producer, vocals, harmonies, acoustic guitars
Paul Johnston (Rhythm Studios) - mastering engineer, sound engineer, co-producer, drums, bass, piano, mandolin
Marion Fleetwood - 1st & 2nd violin, viola, cello
You can find Marion Fleetwood @ www.marionfleetwood.net
4 track E.P. from new album 'Love & Other Stories, including title track 'Lately', & new hand drawn video, 'Million Miles' & 'Lay Me Down', as played on BBC Introducing CWR, & 'Your Smile', available to download & stream on all major platforms.'
Lately
I was inspired by the words 'out of chaos stars are born'. I am blessed with friends that say beautiful things, and in times of crisis a wise few words can carry me into another place.
As we are all borrowed star dust and wonder, this sentence to me, not only evokes the beginning of the beginning, but also slams down the infinite possibility that what may seem like a total disaster, can actually become a thing of beauty, depending how you look at it ..... and it's good to look back, but it's also good to hold the space, & stop, & just let it be whatever it is.
I made this video in one take, the stars aren't about becoming a star, as we all are made of stars, but they represent shining inside.
Kitchen Sketchbook Diaries
This song 'Lay Me Down' was first written in my 20's. Recently when I was writing the albums I found a box of tapes (really) and there I found Lay Me Down, the original version. I first wrote this song on the north coast of Ireland, the West wind breezing in moving huge clouds across immense skies. In the rewrite I am thinking of the west as a relentless machine: 'trees stumbling up the mountainside, waving their leaves goodbye'.
Writing 'Lay Me Down' I imagined spinning on this ball called earth and what it would look like from outer space if we all lay down, each with lights, side by side across the world, to protect our beautiful natural planet from harm.
'Small as a star on a distant shore, radiating out across the void, spinning round on this glitter ball, somewhere in this universe
I was born with a song singing in my heart
We're all tiny dancers on the crests of stars
A sky with no song don't sing
A sky with no song don't bring the dawn in
Let's shake the gold from their hands
Let's draw a line in the sand'
Kitchen Diaries is a window into my sketchbook where nothing's ever finished.
'Lay Me Down' as played on BBC Introducing & one of 4 track E.P. 'Lately'
Open Book
Open Book, the first video exploring my hand in motion, my connection to the page in the moment & the flow of the pencil intertwining the lyrics with my raw drawings.
This video is made in 2 takes. I wanted the work to evolve and be drawn with out any polish, with frayed lines coexisting with my lyrics. Life felt unpredictable & gritty, and I wanted to portray the instability I was feeling & the way that things can dissolve without warning, like everything is a dream that becomes liquid...no matter how solid it felt. I was exploring the moment & recording it.
This film is dedicated to our Dad, Stanley Morgan, our brother Simon Morgan & our Uncle Pete, all of whom we miss without measure, every day. And to everyone who carries on in hope.
I am an open book half done
Blank pages stretch before me
Now you are gone
I am an open book half done
Scribbles across my pages
Where we went wrong
Hope in every breath, hope in every step that I take.
About
A A singer songwriter & visual artist with a pure voice, both intimate & powerful, Linzi Jane Morgan writes poetic songs with timeless observations.
Morgan connected with new audiences whilst studying her Master’s degree. Threading her song writing & visual works together for the first time; what evolved was a body of work which explored the cycle of grief & the nature of hope; the award winning ‘Open Book’ was first woven through song & video drawing, the same narrative was then brought to life in print & mixed media book making & finally, a large ceramic installation of the song, with every element created in clay, was staged with a musical landscape, her moving illustrations video.
Morgan was born in the Midlands UK & started writing songs at 11 years, co forming her first band with friends from her village at the age of 14, they went on to record demos with Johnny Rivers, by 21 she had won a Nordhoff Robins songwriter award (after recording her songs on a 4 track in her bedsit bedroom, she sent them into a Radio 1 competition), she then signed to Warner Chappell’s as a songwriter.
After a career in the arts, teaching in various settings, inspired by her master's project, she then took 2 years to create her first ever solo body of music, working closely with Paul Johnston, (Rhythm Studios), Morgan traces round the edges of time & fills in the gaps, crafting soaring vocal harmonies & songs that tell stories combined with a pure & real sound. Morgan experiments with creating drawn images that coexist with her lyrics, working to increase the connection with her audiences & to champion the hand drawn, her work is both raw & from the heart.
‘It’s my own little rage against AI, but it’s important for me to keep the elements of paper & pencil, the drawn, the painted, the created & the creation process because I believe it is a place of great healing and connection’.
'Here's the space that comes at the end
the space for words not spoken yet
and never to be heard
This is the last love song
But you're already gone
Out of chaos stars are born'
'Lately'
Linzi Jane Morgan
4 Track E.P. out 02/12/2025
But you're already gone
Out of chaos
Lyrics
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Ballad of Mary Morgan
No it wasn’t like you say, it was an accident I swear
My babe was crying so loud, I was frightened we’d get found out
I held her so tightly she took the last breath against my chest
I didn’t know how to hold her, but then I’m just a child myself.
Who will hold my hand on the road to the gallows land?
Who will drive my cart spare a kind word for my aching heart?
Who will save my bones lay them safe in a sacred home?
Who will speak my name so I’m not alone?
Is God at Home?
No it wasn’t like you make out
He held his hand against my mouth I couldn’t scream out
It’s not in my nature to be so free I wanted love I wanted to be loved
And you grew inside me, I loved you but I hated what we’d be
And I put the light out on you & now they put the light out on me
Who will hold my hand on the road to the gallows land?
Who will drive my cart spare a kind word for my aching heart?
Who will save my bones lay them safe in a sacred home?
Who will speak my name so I’m not alone?
Is God at Home?
Please God be home
Please God I’m not alone
Please God be Home
Where do the souls go, nobody loves?
Who’s going to help them find heaven above?
Who will hold my hand on the road to the gallows land?
Who will drive my cart spare a kind word for my aching heart?
Who will save my bones lay them safe in a sacred home?
Who will speak my name so I’m not alone?
Is God at Home?
Please God be home
Please God I’m not alone
Please God be Home
Army of Angels
Stories so tall I don’t recognise myself at all
In the grey screen light talk is cheap oh keep it real tonight
So hard to be in a world that wants your soul for keeps
We love our quiet love
Fairytales do come true
Here I am next to you
Sometimes it’s just the other stuff
Standing here we face the truth
White walls blur I lean on you
we love our quiet love
There’s an army of angels watching over you, a face that you can see when you are still, a boat to bring you home bring you back to shore and an anchor of love if you will
Stories so tall I can’t help but laugh at them all
Keep those smiles rolling in
There’s a way to go on this forever repeating show
We love our quiet love
There’s an army of angels watching over you, a face that you can see when you are still, a boat to bring you home bring you back to shore and an anchor of love if you will
Close my eyes at night, love, love, love
In my skin alone I feel together
Reap what I have sown, love, love, love
Oh I will lie with you forever
Stories so tall leave them in the sky to burn & fall
Let their empty words sail across the universe
When you whisper in your sleep
Diamonds form inside of me
We love our quiet love
Wrapped inside you
Human cocoon
Following the beats of our hearts
That says it all every breath I’m grateful
I love our quiet love
There’s an army of angels watching over you, a face that you can see when you are still, a boat to bring you home bring you back to shore and an anchor of love if you will
