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| Released | 15 September 2009 | |||
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| Label | De Angelis | |||
| Producer | Rick Barraclough | |||
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Harder Than Easy is the second studio album by English singer and songwriter Jack Savoretti, released for digital distribution by De Angelis Records on 15 September 2009 in the United States.
Harder Than Easy was recorded over seven days in Los Angeles at Jackson Browne's studio with members of Tom Waits' band (Larry Taylor and Steve Hodges) and Counting Crows (Charlie Gillingham and David Immergluck). It was mixed by Jack Joseph Puig (U2, Snow Patrol, John Mayer). [1] [2]
Jack Hody Johnson is an American singer-songwriter, primarily in the soft rock and acoustic pop genres. Johnson has reached number one on the Billboard 200 chart with his albums Sing-A-Longs and Lullabies for the Film Curious George in 2006, Sleep Through the Static in 2008, To the Sea in 2010 and From Here to Now to You in 2013. His album In Between Dreams peaked at number two on the chart in 2005 and again in 2013.
Grinspoon are an Australian rock band from Lismore, New South Wales, formed in 1995 and fronted by Phil Jamieson on vocals and guitar with Pat Davern on guitar, Joe Hansen on bass guitar and Kristian Hopes on drums. Also in 1995, Grinspoon won the Triple J-sponsored Unearthed competition for Lismore, with their post-grunge song "Sickfest". The name "Grinspoon" was taken from Dr. Lester Grinspoon, an associate professor emeritus of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, who supported marijuana for medical use.
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Meat Beat Manifesto, often shortened as Meat Beat, Manifesto or MBM, is an electronic music group originally consisting of Jack Dangers and Jonny Stephens that was formed in 1987 in Swindon, United Kingdom. The band, fronted by Dangers, has proven versatile over the years, experimenting with techno, breakbeat, industrial, dub and jazz fusion while touring the world and influencing major acts such as Nine Inch Nails, the Chemical Brothers and the Prodigy. Some of the band's earlier work has been credited with influencing the rise of the trip hop, big beat, and drum and bass genres.
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Mezzamorphis is the second studio album by Christian rock band Delirious?. Released in 1999, it represented a large step towards a more electronic sound for the band and received a huge critical acclaim.
The Eleventh Hour is the fourth full-length studio album by the band Jars of Clay. It was released in 2002 by Essential Records and marked the band's first attempt at producing a full album by themselves.
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Famous is the third studio album by American alternative rock band Puddle of Mudd. It was released on October 9, 2007 on Flawless Records. Famous was originally set to be released in May, but was pushed back to add more songs to the album.
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Giovanni Edgar Charles Galletto-Savoretti, known professionally as Jack Savoretti, is an English acoustic singer, songwriter, and musician. He has released seven studio albums to date: Between the Minds (2007), Harder Than Easy (2009), Before the Storm (2012), Written in Scars (2015), Sleep No More (2016), Singing to Strangers (2019) and Europiana (2021). Singing to Strangers became his first number-one album on the UK Albums Chart.
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Samuel Dixon is a record producer, songwriter and musician, based in London. Dixon has produced and written with artists including Adele, Sia, Kylie Minogue, Christina Aguilera, Paloma Faith and Jack Savoretti. He is a multi-instrumentalist, best known for his work as a bass guitarist.
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"Music's Too Sad Without You" is a song recorded by Australian singer Kylie Minogue and English singer Jack Savoretti. It was released for contemporary hit radio on 13 October 2018 through BMG as the fifth single from Minogue's fourteenth studio album, Golden (2018). The song was written by Minogue, Savoretti and its producer Samuel Dixon. "Music's Too Sad Without You" has been described as a country-tinged ballad. Savoretti included a live performance of the song on the deluxe edition of his sixth studio album, Singing to Strangers (2019), and included the original version on the special edition of that album.
Singing to Strangers is the sixth studio album by English singer-songwriter Jack Savoretti, released on 15 March 2019 through BMG. The lead single, "Candlelight", was released in December 2018. Savoretti embarked on a European tour in support of the album. It debuted at number one on the UK Albums Chart with 32,264 units. It is Savoretti's final album for BMG.
Europiana is the seventh studio album by English singer-songwriter Jack Savoretti, released on 25 June 2021 through EMI; it is his first album recorded for this label after departure from BMG. It was preceded by the single "Who's Hurting Who", which was the only track on the album produced by Nile Rodgers and Mark Ralph. The album debuted atop the UK Albums Chart, becoming Savoretti's second number-one album in the country.
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