I’m fairly sure that Brisbane-based country-rock-blues artist Delilah Rose is incapable of being uninteresting. We have spoken before – around the time of the release of her album Moxie – and she was clearly passionate about not only making art but connecting with others who are doing the same. And, indeed, about creating a community for that – which is what led her to start The Song Café in Brisbane, which is still going strong at The Cave Inn in Woolloongabba each month and features four songwriters in the round.

Delilah grew up on the land in the Western Australian wheat belt and has only recently relocated to the east coast. We started off talking about where the good coffee is in Brisbane, then moved on to discussing the genesis of her latest single, ‘Sophia’, which is an exploration of faith, individuality, and the divine feminine. Her spirituality has now definitely evolved away from the religion she was brought up in, and the song captures how she has developed her own sense of faith.

In some ways this interview documents a quest, and the quest narrative is an archetype, which is fitting, given that it was Delilah’s interest in the divine feminine that led her along a life and creative path that has resulted in this song and the album she is planning to follow it.

Indeed, it documents more than one quest: an artist in search of the divine, and of herself, and of a community. Where Delilah differs to some who seek, she sets out to find and applies herself to the finding. The seeking is not the point, of course – we can all say we seek. Committing to the quest and seeing it through is noble and inspiring, and that’s what I find her to be.

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