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"I think this is the best album I've ever done. It's definitely the best singing I've ever done. And I know why: cause it was done on a small budget. When you've got binding restrictions you get creative, and you also keep to first takes a lot more, which are very often the best ones."
Clear Blue In Stormy Skies is a watershed album for Jenny Morris. Between a dozen remodelled radio hits of the '80s and '90s is an overdue reaffirmation of her rare gifts as a singer and songwriter. More importantly, in the act of reinvention are the seeds of a revitalised future.
Surprises include the Keith Richards raunch of You're Gonna Get Hurt, a cosmic soul version of Body & Soul and an ingeniously skewed retake of You I Know, kindly rewritten by its author, Neil Finn, in Auckland late last year - that's him on guitars and backing vocals too.
The rest of the album was made fast and loose in February '06 with Jenny's long term road partners: Steve Balbi (Noiseworks, Electric Hippies) produced and played guitars; Paul Searles (Skunkhour) played a range of vintage keyboards including piano, Hammond, Wurlitzer and Rhodes. Backing singer Josh Quong Tart completed a small, close-knit ensemble.
Jenny's especially warm and intimate vocals were caught with a vintage valve microphone once used by Frank Sinatra. "We also used a lot of this old spring reverb," she says. "It crapped out a lot and it was very frustrating, but man, when it worked it was amazing and I think that's why this album has got that special earthiness about it."
This combination of sonic classicism and fresh discovery reignites Jenny's first hit of '84, Everywhere I Go, as well as her biggest subsequent singles, Break In The Weather and She Has To Be Loved. There's an instrumental arrangement of her most requested song, Little Little, and a languid INXS cover, This Time, in tribute to her friend Michael Hutchence.
The title, Clear Blue In Stormy Skies, comes from the sole new track, The Time. It's a song with the kind of mature and reflective tone, emotional integrity and musical excellence that only comes with years of experience.
Track Listing:
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Break In The Weather
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| 2. |
Everywhere I Go
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| 3. |
You I Know
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The Time
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| 5. |
She Has To Be Loved
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| 6. |
This Time
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| 7. |
Street Of Love
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| 8. |
Body & Soul
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| 9. |
Gonna Get Hurt
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| 10. |
Rhythm & Flow
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| 11. |
Tennessee Waltz
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| 12. |
(Little) Little Little
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