James Morrison chats to I Like Music

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James Morrison has been alive for just 21 years but his voice sounds like its been around for generations. His first single You Give Me Something was released on July 17th and his debut album Undiscovered is out July 31st.

You Give Me Something is a spellbinding, bittersweet, bluesy-soul song about concealing true emotions in the early stages of a relationship, played mellowingly through an acoustic guitar and sung with a power and character of someone twice his age.

James was invited onto Later with Jools to perform his single almost two months upfront of release. And those who saw him at the sold out Luminaire show owill have an idea about why people come away from his live shows in awe.

I Like Music caught up with James to talk about his incredible voice, playing on Later with Jools Holland, and getting a U for Music A Level at college.

"I like music because… it makes me feel good and it's a powerful thing to remind you of how you feel or what you want, and it reminds you of good times or people that you know."
JAMES MORRISON

ILM: Your gorgeous single, You Give Me Something, is out now, and I just adore it. It gives me tingles in my spine and a lump in my throat and just this exhilarating feeling, So, anyway, can you give us your own personal description of the track, its whole vibe and where/how you came to write it?

JAMES: Basically it's kind of inspired by my girlfriend, at the time, I was a young guy and it was kind of an honest love song. I started writing a proper love song, but I think there's too many of them around that are not exactly how people feel, not the truth of what they feel, so I wanted to write a horribly honest song about how I felt. I wanted the guy in the song (me) to give as little away as possible, kind of like the leanest love song that you could write without totally doing the girls heads in. So you're not giving away anything but the tiniest little bit, just to keep her there, because you're still a bit, 'is it gonna work or is it not?' and that's what it's about that really.

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