Beth Hart has been fighting a war in her mind since she was a child. Abandoned by her father at the age of six (“I begged him in the driveway: ‘Don’t leave us’”), she turned to music for salvation. Now 50 (her birthday was not long after our interview), she is a global star with 13 studio albums and almost as many live albums to her name. She has been sober for seven years (“Thank you, Lord Jesus”), but remains highly strung (“I’m going through the perimenopause, so everything makes me cry right now”). And she has come through a bruising lockdown by channelling.
