‘Coming close is the hardest part/Never knew a silver medal could break your heart’
The phenomenally-talented Amy Jo, a Morecambe Bay resident who sounds like a Nashville-era Taylor Swift, is set to release the first track from her Songs From The Bay Ep on 4th November 2022. Entitled, Coming Close, the track is a magnificently-dextrous lyrical beast – “Almost went to a Hollywood party/And nearly met Elton John/Thought by now that I’d have moved out/But I still haven’t done” – and a typically-wry reflection on what it’s like to always be the runner up. Or as Amy Jo puts it, perhaps more eloquently: “Most people have experienced moments of ‘Coming Close’. Whether it’s getting a B on your final exam grade, being rejected from a new job or, as the lyric states, finding out you’re the mistress to the bad guy and never the wife to the good guy. ‘Coming Close’ features observations I’ve made from others around me, as well as personal tales…”
You can listen to Coming Close here: https://bit.ly/AmyJoSoundcloud
And you can watch the video here: https://bit.ly/ComingCloseYT
Amy Jo is a singer and multi-instrumentalist whose lyrical sophistication and dexterity, belie her 25 years. A veteran and winner of countless talent contests as a teen, she has performed alongside artists such as Scouting for Girls, Stooshe and Rick Astley, as well as Fratellis, Alexander O’Neil, The Vamps, Professor Green and Pixie Lott. Coming Close was co-written with Grant Black (Van Morrison, Craig David, Run DMC, Sarah Brightman, Olly Murs), and in recent weeks, Amy Jo has been writing with John Beck (Corinne Bailey Rae, Tamsin Archer) and Tim Hutton (Ian Brown, Prodigy). With (a)cute serendipity, one of these co-writers – John Beck – co-wrote Corinne Bailey Rae’s Put `Your Records On, a track Amy Jo performed whilst winning one of her numerous talent contests, earning £1000 for her chosen charity in the process.
Coming Close, as well as the other three tracks on Amy Jo’s Songs From The Bay Ep due to be released in Spring 2023, has been produced by Julian Hinton (Trevor Horn, Robbie Williams, Rumer) and Simon Bloor (Seal, Birdy, Will Heard).
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