15 January 2021

J R Harbidge has given fans a taster of what is to come from his upcoming new album by releasing lead single Wrong Side of the Fight. You can listen to the song here or watch the video below. [wpdevart_youtube]ubUpfMMMTQI[/wpdevart_youtube] Harbidge’s second album ‘Long Black River’ will be released on April 30 and Wrong Side of the Fight is the first single from that, with the Cannock based artist following up on his 2018 debut ‘First Ray of Light’. Speaking about the song, Harbidge said that it has been kicking around for over 25 years, but only got finished in 2020 as the artist simply couldn’t find a melody for it until that point, while also offering some insight as to how the album went for him. “It’s a song that started life when we were 15 and got completed when I turned 41,” Harbidge said. ““I remember having that music on a four-track X28H multi-track recorder as a teenager and I have spent years trying to get a melody for it. That song waited until 2020 to disclose its undeclared magic. Songwriting is a mysterious process, isn’t it? “This album was both a joy and a chore at the same time.  I loved writing and recording the songs, I loved getting some fantastic musicians playing on the album and I loved collaborating with a new collaborator on one of the songs.  I also loved getting loads of my FB and Instagram friends to sing on the ‘yob chorus’ at the end of side-by-side: all great experiences!”  

JP Saxe has joined forces with reigning CMA Female Vocalist of the Year Maren Morris for his new single, a duet titled Line by Line. You can listen to the track here or watch the video below. [wpdevart_youtube]dgmjeMo_pDY[/wpdevart_youtube] Grammy Award nominated JP Saxe wrote the song with Morris and Jimmy Robbins, with the Canadian singer-songwriter hoping the track will hit the same highs as his previous duet – If the World Was Ending, featuring Julia Michaels. Speaking about the song, Saxe praised Morris as one of his favourite artists, while Morris opened up about the song meaning and how everything came together. “My first thought about this song is that it’s surreal I get to be sharing it with one of my favourite artists ever,” Saxe said. “Regarding what it’s about…as songwriters, we spend a lot of our lives trying to bottle up a feeling into a song, and often, the biggest feelings, the best ones… the complicated, detailed, messy, incredible ones… just aren’t going to fit. “Line by Line is our recognition of that… of how one song just isn’t enough to capture it all, but how we’re just going to keep writing, futilely and lovingly, anyway.” “I have always loved being contemplative of the artist vs. muse relationship in songs,” Morris added. “Line by Line acts as a promise that I’ll never be done writing about my muse in this life because he can’t be summed up in one song. “Writing that day with JP was the most fluid, inspiring session. He’s a lyrical faucet. He threw out the line ‘immortalising my sincerity’ and it blew my mind. I think all in all, we wrote the whole song in an hour and immediately recorded it”