I don't have any regrets about this relationship even though there are all these difficult times." It was me saying, I'm not wishing myself out of this situation. Even right in the middle of the worst times, I remember thinking that I would choose this exact life again, that I would do it all again. It's just about how I felt about him at that time. "Almost as he was leaving the room, I just sat down and wrote it. "It was written literally just after me and Jason had this massive disagreement, a big argument, a bad one," she says now, faltering. It was a testimony to the strength of her love for him, a song about how nothing, not his restlessness or the occasional rows it precipitated, could ever make her question that love. It was written after an argument with her husband, Jason Rae, a gifted jazz musician who often played saxophone in her band. With The Sea, I was just thinking about loss, about the impact losing your father would have on you as a child, how one event that big could colour your life, bleed into everything else and force you into a certain shape."Īnother song she wrote around that time was called I'd Do it All Again. She says now, "I don't know if there was something in the air or what, but the songs seemed different, a bit darker. ![]() It climaxes with the lines, "The sea, the majestic sea, breaks everything, cleans everything, crushed everything, takes everything from me." One of the first she finished was called The Sea, a powerful elucidation of loss that was based on a family story that had been passed down to her about her grandfather's death in a boating accident. "It was like, 'Yes! I've finished!' I'd had offers to do shows in Australia and Brazil, but I just wanted to draw a line on that record with the Glastonbury gig and move on."Ĭorinne went home to her house in Leeds and began writing songs, just her and her acoustic guitar. Adjust your expectations accordingly and Rae's languid debut is very rewarding."I just ran off the stage and leapt in the air," she says of Glastonbury. The well-written and direct "Butterfly" suggests Rae could release a more accomplished full-length someday, but attention to "feel" often seems like the driving force in this album's creation. ![]() Mellowing Style Council or Brand New Heavies fans should dig "Trouble Sleeping," while "Butterfly" beautifully captures the full range of emotions that come with leaving the nest. It's risky to open an album with a lazy ballad, but the great "Like a Star" paints Rae as Billie Holiday's pop-influenced granddaughter. So if she doesn't make an Alicia Keys-size splash with her debut, she's still a breath of fresh air, and hardly a one-hit wonder. ![]() Her self-titled debut sounds a wee rushed and sometimes meanders its way into background music territory, but this comfortable effort is pleasingly homegrown, warm, and poignant in parts, especially when Rae doesn't weaken her strong lyrics with space-filling "doo de do do do"s and "mmmmmmm"s. One listen to her breakout soft soul anthem and it's easy to hear why, since Rae is a mix of all the above but not a contrived one concocted by some major label's scientist. it was a feel-good adult alternative phenomenon - a kind of Norah Jones, Joss Stone, David Gray, or Macy Gray phenomenon. When songstress Corinne Bailey Rae released her sashaying single "Put Your Records On" in her native U.K.
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