James Morrison will be blessing the stage at The Vogue, in Broad Ripple, next Tuesday, 5/5/09. Morrison is one of my favorite artists, he just writes songs that make you feel good, or that you can relate to, I’m sure a lot of you will feel the same. But enough about me, more about him, James Morrison is a BRIT Award-winning English singer-songwriter and guitarist from Rugby, Warwickshire. In 2006, his debut single “You Give Me Something” became a hit in Europe, Australia, and Japan, peaking in the top five in the UK and New Zealand. His debut album, Undiscovered, debuted at the top of the UK Albums Chart. He released his second album, Songs for You, Truths for Me in 2008, which entered the top five in the UK as well as topping the Irish Album Chart. Songs for You, Truths for Me featured the top ten singles “You Make It Real” and his critically acclaimed collaboration with Nelly Furtado titled “Broken Strings”.
Following the success of Broken Strings, the album which had been gradually descending down the album chart, made a leap from number forty eight to twenty nine and then two weeks later, re-entered the top ten at number seven. It rose again the next week to number four and was charting at number five, twenty weeks after release. The same effect allowed Songs For You, Truths For Me to gain success in Ireland. After dropping off the Irish Album Chart completely, it re-entered the chart at number seventy three. It rose for several weeks until it was charting at number thirteen. The next week the album climbed to the top of the chart, entering the top ten at number one. This gave Songs For You, Truths For Me it’s first number one chart placement and gave Morrison his second number one album.
James Morrison is truely an amazing person to see perform live, his emotions and feelings flow throughout the crowd as he sings. He said on his myspace page, “I’ve called the album Songs for You, Truths for Me because that’s what I feel it is. It’s songs for Gill and everyone else. But for me they’re truths. They’re how I feel.” (Gill is his girlfriend who he adores very much) I’ve included the video for Broken Strings below, A Must See!
This concert, which you really don’t want to miss will start at 8:00pm and tickets are $18, which you can pick up at any ticketmaster location or at ticketmaster.com. Don’t miss this.
