''Songs for You, Truths for Me'' is the second album by English singer, songwriter and guitarist James Morrison, released on 26 September 2008. The album was a commercial success in the UK where it entered the album charts at number three and in Ireland where it topped the charts. It has been certified double Platinum by the BPI with over 700,000 sales and has sold more than 1 million of copies worldwide.

Album information

On 29 September 2008, Morrison's second album entitled ''Songs for You, Truths for Me'' was released. In the writing process for this album he worked with Dan Wilson,

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, Martin Terefe, Martin Brammer,

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, Mark Taylor and

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. The album also features a

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entitled " Broken Strings", co-written with Fraser T Smith and Nina Woodford. From October 2008 until the end of the year Morrison has toured throughout Europe. When talking about the album at

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Presents, Morrison stated that the music had 'moved on' a lot from the first album but that not to the point where fans of his previous album wouldn't be able to 'get it'. The album was re-released on 16 November 2009, featuring two brand new tracks: "On the Same Side" and " Get to You" (which was the first single of the re-issue of the album and was released on the same day) and a second disc, ''The Basement Sessions'', with acoustic versions of six of his own songs and a

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Chart performance

''Songs for You, Truths for Me'' was released on the 12 September 2008. The album entered the

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at number three, being held off the top two spots by new albums from the

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. The album was not a huge success initially and dropped out of the top ten after three weeks. The album made a gradual descent down the chart until the release of the second single of the album, "Broken Strings". Following the success of the single, the album steadily rose back up the charts before jumping from number twenty-four back into the top ten, reaching number seven. The album then went to number four and has been certified Platinum by the BPI with over 300,000 sales. The album was a commercial success in

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as well. It entered the Irish Album Chart at number fourteen before dropping off the chart completely after a couple of weeks. Then, following the success of "Broken Strings" the album re-entered the chart at number seventy-three and rose through the charts until it leaped from number fourteen to number one, giving ''Songs for You, Truths for Me'' its first number one chart placing where it stayed for one week. The album came back to the Top 10 Albums on the UK Albums Chart, as of 30 August, which gave the album big sales again, eventually selling over 750,000 copies in UK alone.

Track listing

Original release

Deluxe edition CD+DVD

A deluxe edition of the album was released with an additional DVD on 24 November 2008.

2-disc deluxe edition

Another deluxe edition of the album was released on 16 November 2009, with two new songs on disc one, and a seven track disc with acoustic versions of Morrison songs, and a Michael Jackson cover version.

Personnel

Main personnel * James Morrison –

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–

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on "Dream on Hayley" *

– bass, drums,

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, keyboards,

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, production on "Save Yourself", "If You Don't Wanna Love Me", "Fix the World Up for You" and "Love Is Hard" *

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– bass, guitar, keyboards, production on "Precious Love" *Martin Terefe – bass, guitar,

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, production on "The Only Night" and "Once When I Was Little" *Alex Smith – bass, guitar, percussion,

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*Jeff Rothschild – drums, engineering, mixing * Mark Taylor – percussion, keyboards,

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, programming, production on "You Make It Real", "Broken Strings" and "Nothing Ever Hurt Like You", engineering *

– piano, guitar, production on "Please Don't Stop the Rain" *

– vocals on "Broken Strings" * Ai – vocals on "Broken Strings" (featuring Ai) Additional guitars *Seton Daunt *Adam Phillips Additional bass *Paul Barry *Arnulf Linder *Jeremy McCoy * Dan Wilson Additional drums *Karl Brazil *Eddie Fisher *

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*Kristoffer Sonne Additional keyboards *Charles Judge *Nikolaj Torp Additional pianos *Nikolaj Torp * Dan Wilson

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*Nikolaj Torp Additional backing vocals *Donovan Blackwood * Ayak Thiik *Julia Waters *Maxine Waters *

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*Arrangements ** Mark Taylor **David Davidson *Strings **David Angell ** The London Session Orchestra *

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s **David Davidson **Ghislaine Fleischmann **Emma Kummrow **Perry Mason **Luigi Mazzocchi **Charles Parker **Emlyn Singleton **Igor Szwec **Gregory Teperman *

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s **Monisa Angell **Ruth Frazier **Bruce White **Kristin Wilkinson *

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s **John Catchings **David Jack Daniels **Arnulf Linder **Jennie Lorenzo

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s **Chris Farr **José Luís Hernández ** Andy Ross *

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s **Alexander Abreu **Dominic Glover **Mike A. Jarosz **John Thirkell *

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s **Mat Colman **Amaury Perez **J. Neil Sidwell Production personnel *Additional engineering **Baeho Bobby Shin **Richard Flack **Dyre Gormsen **Rob Haggett **Colin Heldt **Iain Hill **Ren Swan **Neil Tucker **Richard Woodcraft *Engineering assistance **Helen Atkinson *Additional mixing **Tom Elmhirst **Ash Howes *

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** Lars Fox **Rob Haggett Additional personnel *Everton Nelson –

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leader *Lee Strickland –

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Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Certifications

Release history

References

External links

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