Rhys will be writing twelve new songs in 2012 with titles suggested by his Facebook and Twitter followers. Each month, he’ll pick a title, write a song, record it, then post it here. By the end of the year, there’ll be an album’s worth of new material created this way. How about that.
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Here’s an oddity for you. The demo of Hurricane Jane. This was recorded very late on in 2008, somewhere in the middle of the writing process for Great Falls. We did the drums at Grove Studios in West London. Everything else was recorded in a flat in Camden. We took way more care with it than we planned to. We know no other way. I still have a real soft spot for it. It doesn’t have the punch or the precision of the finished product, but it’s got a lot of charm. And here, so you can compare and contrast, is the finished thing. You might want to turn the volume down a bit before you hit ‘play’ A tale of love, loss and mandolins. This is a very old song indeed. I wrote it in the autumn of 1996 after a spectacular breakup. It’s about dreaming you’re still together with the one you love, then waking up to find you’re not. It’s a country music staple. An earlier version of this song was released in 1996 on a compilation album. The bass player’s mum said she thought it could do with some backing vocals, so there are about 150 tracks of them on this version. This recording was done in early 2008 between The Fire Stairs and Great Falls. It features me on vocals, guitars, mandolins and all sorts, Nikolaj Bjerre on drums, Mark Ferguson on bass, Anna-Louise Maloney and Michelle Hendry on vocals and the mighty Spencer Cullum on pedal steel. It was never released but that doesn’t make me love it any the less. |
  
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