Wild Rose: Watch the premiere of 'Glasgow' from the film starring Jessie Buckley

Buckley sings the track with a searing emotional intensity, in what looks likely to be a star-making performance

Jessie Buckley in the film Wild Rose

Wild Rose, the film starring Jessie Buckley about a single mother in Glasgow trying to make it as a star in Nashville, is attracting critical acclaim ahead of its release in the UK on 12 April.

The movie includes several original songs, the standout of which is "Glasgow", written by Oscar-winning actor and singer Mary Steenburgen.

Buckley sings the track with a searing emotional intensity, in what looks likely to be a star-making performance.

Watch the video with the track, below, and read The Independent's Q&A with Wild Rose writer Nicole Taylor.

– Hi Nicole, how did you approach the task of writing music for the film?

We wanted to include songs in the film that were written from Rose-Lynn’s POV. And no-one knew that POV better than me and Jessie – so we got together to write alongside two wonderful musicians the guitarist and vocalist Simon Johnson and Britain’s countriest (and most encouraging) man, producer and writer Ian Brown. For about six months we got together every Friday at mine and invoked Rose-Lynn and tried to imagine what she would write about. Filming had finished but Jessie and I weren’t quite ready to let the character go and so we loved it – we loved getting to continue her story through songwriting. Jessie is a born musician – she’s grade 8 everything, she comes from a musical family. I felt a bit of an imposter at first, being nothing but a basic drum kit player, but quickly discovered that a well-structured country song has a lot in common with a well-structured screenplay!

Were there any concerns or difficulties when it came to avoiding certain cliches that can crop up in films about country music?

I never feared country music cliché. Maybe if I had been writing this as an outsider, it might have been something I’d have thought about, but I’ve been listening to country music obsessively since I was 12 and what I dreamed of communicating through this film is what country feels like to me.

Like Rose-Lynn says – it ‘gets what’s in there out’. The film is interested in how country makes you feel; it’s about what it allows you access to. Also Rose-Lynn is such an idiosyncratic character that I don’t think there’s any chance of cliché with her.

What was the experience of working with Jessie like?

It took a long time to get this film made but in retrospect it feels like there was a reason for that – we were waiting for Jessie! The moment I first saw her my breath caught – she just was Rose-Lynn. The first line I ever wrote about this character nearly ten years ago was ‘Rose-Lynn is thrillingly, glitteringly alive; more alive than you’. And that is exactly Jessie Buckley! She’s also an extremely intelligent, sensitive, lovely and down to earth person and what a pair of pipes on her. She honestly made this experience.

What kind of music inspired you for the film/soundtrack?

The women of Nineties country! The Nineties were such an amazing time for women in country. Mary Chapin Carpenter, Trisha Yearwood, Patti Loveless, Wynonna, Reba, Suzy Bogus, Nanci Griffith... There’s quite a bit of Wynonna on the soundtrack – most of the songs I wrote into the script are the ones that appear in the film. There are cameos in the film by two of the most incredible country artists today – Kacey Musgraves and Ashley McBryde. And Jessie has got me into Bonnie Raitt in a big way.