有一種歌手﹐當他開口唱歌時﹐就是感動。他不用特別強調自己有多少個徹夜不眠或著花了多少金錢和精神來唱好一首歌﹐出一張專輯。
說得太多﹐只會壞了聽歌的想像力。
有一把聲音﹐當你一聽見時﹐就對了味。
有一種歌手﹐用心在唱歌﹐把想說的話都寫在歌裡﹐想表達的都在音樂裡。
男人唱歌﹐就是要這種味道。
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It’s always really difficult to describe your music to people. It’s pretty much guitar blues and soul but listen to ’Better Man’ and make up your own mind.
I grew up on artists like Otis Redding, Al Green, Cat Stevens, The Kinks and Van Morrison. I always loved songs where the singer would sing with real soul, like they really believed in what they were singing about. Those are the kinds of songs that really stayed with me. I can’t sing a song about something I don’t believe in.
I was born in Rugby in 1984 and moved around a bit through Northampton and Derby until we eventually stopped and settled in a little village called Porth in Cornwall.
My Uncle used to play the guitar and watching him made me want to learn. I remember him showing me a blues riff which got me started. Id listen to tunes on the radio and try to learn to play and sing along to them. I was about thirteen at this point.
I found that singing and playing guitar was a way for me to release any frustration I had at the time. Not that I couldn’t express myself any other way, just that music has a more powerful way of doing it. I like being creative but it took me a few years of playing other people’s stuff before I could create my own style of songwriting.
(以上摘自
http://www.myspace.com/jamesmorrisonmusic)
