I’ve been a big fan of Caitlin Rose from the start. Although not the very start of her singing career, because that was when she provided the vocals on the demos of the songs her mother wrote that went on to appear on Taylor Swift’s first album.

I remember seeing what I think was Caitlin’s first UK date, probably in 2009, in a bar in Kings Cross. She was 22 and came from Nashville but looked like a punk in her skinny black jeans and faded band T-shirt.

When she sang she had the voice of Patsy Cline.

The song that struck me most, and got me right there, was an old-timey country number filled with weeping pedal steel guitar, played by an equally young fellow called Spencer who looked like Joey Ramone.

It was called There’s An Answer In One Of These Bottles and it ended with the classic country pay-off line: “So I’m gonna drink until I forget the question.”

Those lyrics, playing on a well-worn country trope of the barfly drinking to forget, were surely written by Hank Williams or someone of that era, or someone of that age. Or so I presumed.

But when I asked her afterwards on the roof of the bar in the pouring rain as we smoked cigarettes (it was so long ago that I still smoked), she said she had written it herself.

And when I asked Spencer about himself, it turned out he came not from Nashville, or anywhere in the Deep South, or even America… but Essex.

I realised that night that Caitlin was a rare talent and I saw her many more times as I followed her career closely until it ground to a sudden halt in 2013 after the release of her second album.

I’m not sure what happened to her but I’m glad to say she’s back at last with a new album, from which this is the first track to be taken.