Songs for You, Truths for Me

Songs for You, Truths for Me
Studio album by James Morrison
Released	26 September 2008
Genre	Pop rock, soft rock
Length	45:44
Label	Polydor
Producer	Eg White, Steve Robson, John Shanks, Mark Taylor, Ryan Tedder, Martin Terefe
James Morrison chronology
Undiscovered (2006) Songs for You, Truths for Me (2008) The Awakening (2011)
Singles from Songs for You, Truths for Me
"You Make It Real" Released: 22 September 2008 "Broken Strings" Released: 8 December 2008 "Please Don't Stop the Rain" Released: 30 March 2009 "Nothing Ever Hurt Like You" Released: 23 July 2009 (UK & Europe) "Get to You" Released: 16 November 2009

Songs for You, Truths for Me is the second album by English singer, songwriter and guitarist James Morrison, released on 26 September 2008.^[1] 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, Ryan Tedder, Martin Terefe, Martin Brammer, Chris Braide and Steve Robson. The album also features a duet with Nelly Furtado 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 4Music 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'.^[2]

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 Michael Jackson cover "Man in the Mirror".^[3]

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[4]
BBC Music	(Positive)[5]
The Times	[6]
The Guardian	[7]
Digital Spy	[8]
MTV Asia	(7/10)[9]

Chart performance

Songs for You, Truths for Me was released on the 12 September 2008. The album entered the UK Album Chart at number three, being held off the top two spots by new albums from the Kings Of Leon and Will Young. 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 Ireland 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

All songs written and composed by James Morrison, additional writers are noted. 

No.	Title	Additional writer(s)	Length
1.	"The Only Night"	Martin Terefe	3:37
2.	"Save Yourself"	Chris Braide, Steve Robson, Wayne Hector	3:01
3.	"You Make It Real"	Paul Barry	3:31
4.	"Please Don't Stop the Rain"	Ryan Tedder	3:54
5.	"Broken Strings" (featuring Nelly Furtado)	Fraser T Smith, Nina Woodford	4:10
6.	"Nothing Ever Hurt Like You"	Barry, Mark Taylor	3:51
7.	"Once When I Was Little"	Dan Wilson, Terefe	4:42
8.	"Precious Love"	John Shanks	3:37
9.	"If You Don't Wanna Love Me"	Martin Brammer, Steve Robson	4:15
10.	"Fix the World Up for You"	Brammer, Robson	3:35
11.	"Dream on Hayley"	Francis White	3:33
12.	"Love Is Hard"	Brammer, Robson	3:53
13.	"Sitting on a Platform" (bonus track)	White	3:05

Japanese bonus tracks
No.	Title	Additional writer(s)	Length
13.	"Movin' On"	Martin Terefe, Dan Wilson	3:50
14.	"Broken Strings" (featuring Ai)	Fraser T Smith, Nina Woodford	4:13

Deluxe edition CD+DVD

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

All songs written and composed by James Morrison, additional writers are noted. 

Deluxe edition DVD: Live at Air Studios
No.	Title	Additional writer(s)	Length
1.	"Broken Strings"	Smith, Woodford
2.	"If You Don't Wanna Love Me"	Martin Brammer, Steve Robson
3.	"Once When I Was Little"	Wilson, Terefe
4.	"Please Don't Stop the Rain"	Tedder
5.	"Precious Love"	Shanks
6.	"Save Yourself"	Braide, Steve Robson, Hector
7.	"You Make It Real"	Barry

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.^[10][11]

All songs written and composed by James Morrison, additional writers are noted. 

Disc one
No.	Title	Additional writer(s)	Length
1.	"The Only Night"	Terefe	3:37
2.	"Get to You"	Fraser T Smith, Nina Woodford	3:33
3.	"You Make It Real"	Barry	3:31
4.	"Broken Strings" (featuring Nelly Furtado)	Smith, Woodford	4:10
5.	"On the Same Side"	Steve Robson, Martin Brammer	4:07
6.	"Nothing Ever Hurt Like You"	Barry, Taylor	3:51
7.	"Please Don't Stop the Rain"	Tedder	3:54
8.	"Save Yourself"	Braide, Steve Robson, Hector	3:01
9.	"Once When I Was Little"	Wilson, Terefe	4:42
10.	"Precious Love"	Shanks	3:37
11.	"If You Don't Wanna Love Me"	Brammer, Steve Robson	4:15
12.	"Fix the World Up for You"	Brammer, Steve Robson	3:35
13.	"Dream on Hayley"	White	3:33
14.	"Love Is Hard"	Brammer, Steve Robson	3:53

Disc two: The Basement Sessions
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"You Make It Real" (acoustic version)	Morrison, Barry	3:45
2.	"Once When I Was Little" (acoustic version)	Morrison, Wilson, Terefe	5:03
3.	"If You Don't Wanna Love Me" (acoustic version)	Morrison, Brammer, Steve Robson	4:19
4.	"You Give Me Something" (acoustic version)	Morrison, White	4:40
5.	"Broken Strings" (acoustic version)	Morrison, Smith, Woodford	4:44
6.	"Wonderful World" (acoustic version)	Morrison, White	3:28
7.	"Man in the Mirror" (acoustic version)	Siedah Garrett, Glen Ballard	4:04

Charts

Chart (2008)	Peak[12]	Certification	Sales
Australian Albums Chart	21
Austrian Albums Chart	26
Belgian Albums Chart (Flanders)	27
Belgian Albums Chart (Wallonia)	44
Danish Albums Chart	17
Dutch Albums Chart	11
French Albums Chart	35
German Albums Chart	13
Japanese Albums Chart[13]	180		3,300[14]
Irish Albums Chart	1
Italian Albums Chart	33	Silver	25,000+
New Zealand Albums Chart	19
Polish Albums Chart	36
Spanish Albums Chart	55
Swedish Albums Chart	25
Swiss Albums Chart	12
UK Albums Chart	3	3xPlatinum	900,000+
US Billboard 200	49		50,000+

Year-end charts

Chart (2009)	Position
Swiss Albums Chart[15]	62

Release history

Region	Date	Label	Format	Catalog
Europe	29 September 2008	Polydor	CD	178 375-5
United States	30 September 2008	Interscope		B0012070-02
Brazil	7 October 2008	Universal		602517837560
Japan	4 March 2009	Universal Japan[16]		UICP-1105
United Kingdom	16 November 2009	Polydor	2 CD
Brazil	28 November 2009	Universal		602527259161
United Kingdom	24 November 2008	Polydor	CD/DVD

Personnel

Main personnel

• James Morrison – vocals
• Eg White – guitar, bass, drums, keyboards, backing vocals, production on "Dream on Hayley"
• Steve Robson – bass, drums, piano, keyboards, percussion, glockenspiel, melodica, production on "Save Yourself", "If You Don't Wanna Love Me", "Fix the World Up for You" and "Love Is Hard"
• John Shanks – bass, guitar, keyboards, production on "Precious Love"
• Martin Terefe – bass, guitar, organ, production on "The Only Night" and "Once When I Was Little"
• Alex Smith – bass, guitar, percussion, engineering
• Jeff Rothschild – drums, engineering, mixing
• Mark Taylor – percussion, keyboards, string arrangements, programming, production on "You Make It Real", "Broken Strings" and "Nothing Ever Hurt Like You", engineering
• Ryan Tedder – piano, guitar, production on "Please Don't Stop the Rain"
• Nelly Furtado – 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 Ash Soan Kristoffer Sonne Additional keyboards Charles Judge Nikolaj Torp Additional pianos Nikolaj Torp Dan Wilson Hammond organ Nikolaj Torp Additional backing vocals Donovan Blackwood Ayak Thiik Julia Waters Maxine Waters Rita Ora

String section Arrangements Mark Taylor David Davidson Strings David Angell The London Session Orchestra Violins David Davidson Ghislaine Fleischmann Emma Kummrow Perry Mason Luigi Mazzocchi Charles Parker Emlyn Singleton Igor Szwec Gregory Teperman Violas Monisa Angell Ruth Frazier Bruce White Kristin Wilkinson Cellos John Catchings David Jack Daniels Arnulf Linder Jennie Lorenzo

Horn section Saxophones Chris Farr José Luís Hernández Andy Ross Trumpets Alexander Abreu Dominic Glover Mike A. Jarosz John Thirkell Trombones 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 Digital editing Lars Fox Rob Haggett

Additional personnel

• Everton Nelson – orchestra leader
• Lee Strickland – photography

References

1. https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/songs-for-you-truths-for-me/id290897269
2. "Part of 4music Presents... James Morrison". YouTube. 21 September 2008. Retrieved 2010-04-24.
3. "James Morrison News : James releases 'Songs For You, Truths for Me' as a Deluxe Edition on November 16th". jamesmorrisonmusic.com. November 9, 2009. Retrieved 2010-04-24.
4. Allmusic review
5. BBC Music review
6. The Times review
7. The Guardian review
8. Digital Spy review
9. MTV Asia review
10. Songs for You Truths for Me (Deluxe Edition): James Morrison, Amazon.co.uk, 16 Nov 2009
11. Songs for You Truths for Me (Deluxe Edition): James Morrison: MP3 Download, Amazon.co.uk, 16 Nov 2009
12. "James Morrison - Songs For You, Truths For Me". αCharts.us. Retrieved 2008-10-18.
13. ソングス・フォー・ユー ジェイムス・モリソン [Songs for You James Morrison] (in Japanese). Oricon. 2009. Retrieved September 10, 2012.
14. "オリコンランキング情報サービス「you大樹」" [Oricon Ranking Information Service "You Big Tree"]. Oricon. Retrieved August 20, 2012. (subscription only)
15. "Swiss Year-End Charts 2009". Media Control. Hung Medien. Retrieved February 6, 2009.
16. "[CD] ソングス・フォー・ユー / ジェイムス・モリソン" [Songs for You / James Morrison]. Neowing (in Japanese). Retrieved September 11, 2012. delete character in |title= at position 1 (help)

External links

• Songs for You, Truths for Me at Discogs (list of releases)
• Download James Morrison - Songs For You, Truths For Me(2010)