Chantel McGregor

With elements of prog on her new album, the guitarist/singer is hopeful people will see her in a different light.

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The hard-touring, Yorkshire-born guitarist and singer returns with her first new album in a decade. The Healing, McGregor's third full-length record, marks a number of changes - and don't go calling her a blues-rock artist any more.

Why has it been ten years since your last album, Lose Control?

Basically, life got in the way. My grandma became poorly and I helped to look after her. But I usually tour the whole year round and it isn't always easy to sit down and write songs.

Some of the tracks on The Healing introduce what, from the outside at least, seems a fairly new element for you - prog rock.

Anyone that knows me is aware of how much I love Steven Wilson and Porcupine Tree. It isn't a secret. I love the technicality of prog. Lyrically and musically its content is always interesting. I find it really, really intriguing.

And you don't see yourself as a blues artist any more, right?