Songs for You, Truths for Me

On 29 September 2008, Morrison's second album entitled Songs for You, Truths for Me was released. In the writing process for this album he worked with Dan Wilson, Ryan Tedder, Martin Terefe, Martin Brammer, Chris Braide, Mark Taylor and Steve Robson. The album also features a duet with Nelly Furtado entitled "Broken Strings", co-written with Fraser T Smith and Nina Woodford. From October 2008 until the end of the year Morrison has toured throughout Europe. When talking about the album at 4Music Presents, Morrison stated that the music had 'moved on' a lot from the first album but that not to the point where fans of his previous album wouldn't be able to 'get it'.^[10]

The album was re-released on 16 November 2009, featuring two brand new tracks: "On the Same Side" and "Get to You" (which was the first single of the re-issue of the album and was released on the same day) and a second disc, The Basement Sessions, with acoustic versions of six of his own songs and a Michael Jackson cover "Man in the Mirror".^[11]

Songs for You, Truths for Me was released on the 12 September 2008. The album entered the UK Album Chart at number three, being held off the top two spots by new albums from the Kings Of Leon and Will Young. The album was not a huge success initially and dropped out of the top ten after three weeks. The album made a gradual descent down the chart until the release of the second single of the album, "Broken Strings". Following the success of the single, the album steadily rose back up the charts before jumping from number twenty-four back into the top ten, reaching number seven. The album then went to number four and has been certified Platinum by the BPI with over 300,000 sales.^{[citation needed]}

The album was a commercial success in Ireland as well. It entered the Irish Album Chart at number fourteen before dropping off the chart completely after a couple of weeks. Then, following the success of "Broken Strings" the album re-entered the chart at number seventy-three and rose through the charts until it leaped from number fourteen to number one, giving Songs for You, Truths for Me its first number one chart placing where it stayed for one week.

The album came back to the Top 10 Albums on the UK Albums Chart, as of 30 August, which gave the album big sales again, eventually selling over 750,000 copies in UK alone.^{[citation needed]}

• James Morrison – vocals, guitars (1–4, 6, 7, 9–12), backing vocals (3, 11)
• Nikolaj Torp – acoustic piano (1), Hammond organ (1), additional keyboards (4)
• Steve Robson – keyboards (2, 9, 10), bass (2, 9, 10), drums (2), acoustic piano (12), melodica (12), percussion (12), glockenspiel (12)
• Paul Barry – Wurlitzer electric piano (3, 6), bass (3, 6)
• Ryan Tedder – acoustic piano (4), Rhodes electric piano (4)
• Mark Taylor – programming (5), percussion (6)
• Dan Wilson – acoustic piano (7), bass (7), backing vocals (7)
• Charles Judge – keyboards (8)
• John Shanks – keyboards (8), guitars (8), bass (8)
• Paul Beard – Hammond organ (10)
• Eg White – keyboards (11), guitars (11), Moog bass (11), drums (11), backing vocals (11)
• Martin Terefe – guitars (1, 7), bass (1), Wurlitzer electric piano (7)
• Luke Potashnick – guitars (2, 10, 12)
• Adam Phillips – guitars (3, 5, 6)
• Alex Smith – guitars (3, 5), bass (5), keyboards (6), percussion (6)
• Seton Daunt – additional guitars (4)
• Jeremy McCoy – bass (4)
• Arnulf Linder – bass (12), cello (12)
• Kristoffer Sonne – drums (1, 7)
• Ash Soan – drums (3, 5, 6)
• Eddie Fisher – drums (4)
• Jeff Rothschild – drums (8)
• Karl Brazil – drums (9, 10)
• Joaquin Betancourt – horn arrangements (1)
• José Luís Hernández – saxophones (1)
• Chris Farr – tenor saxophone (8)
• Greg Riley – tenor saxophone (8)
• Andy Ross – tenor saxophone (10)
• Amaury Perez – trombone (1)
• Neil Sidwell – trombone (6)
• Matt Colman – trombone (10)
• Alexander Abreu – trumpet (1)
• John Thirkell – trumpet (6)
• Matt Gallagher – trumpet (8)
• Mike Jarosz – trumpet (8)
• Dominic Glover – trumpet (10)
• Rita Ora – backing vocals (2, 10)
• Donovan Blackwood – backing vocals (3)
• Ayak Thiik – backing vocals (3)
• Nelly Furtado – vocals (5)
• Julia Tillman Waters – backing vocals (8)
• Maxine Waters Willard – backing vocals (8)

Production

• Martin Terefe – producer (1, 7)
• Steve Robson – producer (2, 9, 10, 12)
• Mark Taylor – producer (3, 5, 6)
• Ryan Tedder – producer (4)
• John Shanks – producer (8)
• Eg White – producer (11)
• Shari Sutcliffe – project coordinator, music contractor
• Studio Fury – art direction, design
• Lee Strickland – photography
• James Morrison – liner notes
• Paul McDonald – management
• Kristie Young – management

Technical credits

• Naweed Ahmed – mastering at Whitfield Mastering (London, UK)
• Tom Elmhirst – mixing (1–3, 5–7, 9–12)
• Dyre Gormsen – recording (1, 7)
• Iain Hill – recording (1, 7)
• Jonathan Shakhovsky – engineer (2, 9, 10, 12)
• Alex Smith – recording (3, 5, 6)
• Ren Swan – recording (3, 5, 6)
• Mark Taylor – recording (3, 5, 6)
• Colin Heldt – engineer (4)
• Giuseppe Salvadori – engineer (4)
• Ryan Tedder – engineer (4)
• Neil Tucker – engineer (4)
• Richard Woodcraft – engineer (4)
• Ash Howes – mixing (4)
• John Nazario – recording (5)
• Jeff Rothschild – recording (8), mixing (8)
• Richard Flack – engineer (10, 12)
• Jose-Raul Varonay – additional recording (1)
• Baeho Bobby Shin – additional recording (7), string recording (11)
• Daniel Parry – mix assistant (1–3, 5–7, 9–12)
• Helen Atkinson – assistant engineer (4)
• Dave Hagen – assistant engineer (4)
• Douglas Lott – assistant engineer (4)
• Rob Haggett – Pro Tools editing (4)
• Lars Fox – Pro Tools editing (8)