Jamie Lawson (born December 1, 1975, in St Budeaux, Plymouth) is an English… Read Full Bio ↴Jamie Lawson (born December 1, 1975, in St Budeaux, Plymouth) is an English singer-songwriter and musician. He was the first artist to be signed by Ed Sheeran's record label, Gingerbread Man Records. Lawson is best known for his hit single, "Wasn't Expecting That", and his self-titled album which peaked at number one on the UK Albums Chart in 2015.
A musician and lyricist of uncommon and mature gift, and one blessed with a gloriously fluid and expressive voice, Lawson was born and raised in Plymouth in what was he says a resolutely non-musical household. “No-one sang or played anything. We didn’t have any records. My dad would listen to Radio 2 a bit but that was the extent of it. And this was back in the days before the station got really good. There was nothing in what I heard that spoke directly to me.” Then the elder of his two brothers hit adolescence and things began to change: “He got me into The Smiths, The Housemartins, the Jackson 5 ...” A disparate trio of early influences, you might think, but Jamie says not really. “They’re all very big on melody. And Morrissey and the young Michael Jackson both have a real passion to the way they sing.”
Aged eight, he asked for and received his first guitar. Early on in secondary school, he was invited to join his first band. “We were quite a dedicated little bunch, rehearsing every lunchtime when the rest of the class was out playing football. It was pretty much all covers, of course ... R.E.M., the Chilli Peppers, some Hendrix. By the time I was 15 we had quite a wide repertoire of other people’s badly-done songs.” He was writing material of his own too, “all of it terrible to start with, of course. I’d be 17 at least before I came up with anything good.” And he was singing, though mainly in unconscious impersonation of Michael Stipe. “My own voice took a while to find. I had to stop trying to replicate someone else’s tricks.”
When he did properly uncover it, that voice proved to be something very special indeed. No one who has heard him sing live would disagree (and in addition to his own regular schedule of gigging, he has played with artists including The Frames, Martha Wainwright and Damien Rice, as well as having been chosen as opening act for outdoor gigs by both Van Morrison and Katie Melua). Even-keeled, even undemonstrative offstage, he comes alive in front of an audience and in the service of his songs. “American Music Club’s Mark Eitzel has been a big influence, in the sense that he sings with his whole body and puts so much into his performance. The difference is that my voice is sweeter and more pure.”
There was a brief and half-hearted attempt at following a different career path. But unhappy and unfulfilled in his earliest weeks at Art College, Lawson sought the advice of a counsellor who then asked him, ‘So what do you want to do with your life?’ “And when I said that I wanted to be a singer she told me, ‘Then go and do it!’ which totally surprised me but which was absolutely the right thing to say. I met that woman just once and for five minutes. I don’t even know her name. But she showed me what I had to do.” And via a geographically circuitous route that has taken in Dublin, Cornwall and now London and during which both his song writing skills and stagecraft have increased by leaps and bounds, he has done it.
Lawson is not just a singer but also an exceptionally blessed and affecting one. His voice and songs have proven to work equally beautifully and well whether in a tiny indoor venue like London’s 12 Bar Club or outdoors before 10,000 people. “And the simple fact is that I love to sing,” he says. “I love the intimacy of live performance. I love drawing people into my mood. I love bringing them to where I am.”
Alan Jackson.
The Times
London.
A musician and lyricist of uncommon and mature gift, and one blessed with a gloriously fluid and expressive voice, Lawson was born and raised in Plymouth in what was he says a resolutely non-musical household. “No-one sang or played anything. We didn’t have any records. My dad would listen to Radio 2 a bit but that was the extent of it. And this was back in the days before the station got really good. There was nothing in what I heard that spoke directly to me.” Then the elder of his two brothers hit adolescence and things began to change: “He got me into The Smiths, The Housemartins, the Jackson 5 ...” A disparate trio of early influences, you might think, but Jamie says not really. “They’re all very big on melody. And Morrissey and the young Michael Jackson both have a real passion to the way they sing.”
Aged eight, he asked for and received his first guitar. Early on in secondary school, he was invited to join his first band. “We were quite a dedicated little bunch, rehearsing every lunchtime when the rest of the class was out playing football. It was pretty much all covers, of course ... R.E.M., the Chilli Peppers, some Hendrix. By the time I was 15 we had quite a wide repertoire of other people’s badly-done songs.” He was writing material of his own too, “all of it terrible to start with, of course. I’d be 17 at least before I came up with anything good.” And he was singing, though mainly in unconscious impersonation of Michael Stipe. “My own voice took a while to find. I had to stop trying to replicate someone else’s tricks.”
When he did properly uncover it, that voice proved to be something very special indeed. No one who has heard him sing live would disagree (and in addition to his own regular schedule of gigging, he has played with artists including The Frames, Martha Wainwright and Damien Rice, as well as having been chosen as opening act for outdoor gigs by both Van Morrison and Katie Melua). Even-keeled, even undemonstrative offstage, he comes alive in front of an audience and in the service of his songs. “American Music Club’s Mark Eitzel has been a big influence, in the sense that he sings with his whole body and puts so much into his performance. The difference is that my voice is sweeter and more pure.”
There was a brief and half-hearted attempt at following a different career path. But unhappy and unfulfilled in his earliest weeks at Art College, Lawson sought the advice of a counsellor who then asked him, ‘So what do you want to do with your life?’ “And when I said that I wanted to be a singer she told me, ‘Then go and do it!’ which totally surprised me but which was absolutely the right thing to say. I met that woman just once and for five minutes. I don’t even know her name. But she showed me what I had to do.” And via a geographically circuitous route that has taken in Dublin, Cornwall and now London and during which both his song writing skills and stagecraft have increased by leaps and bounds, he has done it.
Lawson is not just a singer but also an exceptionally blessed and affecting one. His voice and songs have proven to work equally beautifully and well whether in a tiny indoor venue like London’s 12 Bar Club or outdoors before 10,000 people. “And the simple fact is that I love to sing,” he says. “I love the intimacy of live performance. I love drawing people into my mood. I love bringing them to where I am.”
Alan Jackson.
The Times
London.
Tell Me Again
Jamie Lawson Lyrics
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1208 Looking at you And all that we've been through I just can't…
B-BLACK 歌曲名称：Tell Me Why 歌手名称：R&B 坏习惯 把课本翻烂 瞌睡虫快喀掉我的脑袋 不想管三顾茅庐赤壁大战 快…
Blue Rodeo Tell me again about that love that lasts forever How we'll…
Capricia Tell me again I'm lost in my mind Tell me again…
Dan Reeder Tell me tell me again tell me why I should be nice…
Diana Ross (wintley phipps) You alone know how I feel down deep inside…
Geoff Moore & The Distance Verse One A little boy sitting on a metal folding chair, I…
Geoff Moore And The Distance "Tell Me Again" (Words and Music by Geoff Moore and Steven…
Grady Frazier Can you see Past the smoke laid over my eyes Do…
Jill Phillips The comfort is gone I don't know where I belong You're mov…
John Dartnell I hear a radio playing as I walk out in…
Mr. Kee Tell me Tell me Where I'm right and wrong Tell me Tell me I'…
My Name Is You well she was a girl who had nowhere to go and…
Pitbull Armando Bond Ludacris (oh, oh, oh, oh) Prince Royce (you kno…
Ron Sexsmith Please tell me again, I was somewhere else Lost, walking in…
Tammy Graham If it′s over, you've made up your mind If you′re willing…
The Clutch Hey, yeah, fire If you're there, Gingy, you made this Santa …
The Coronas ""I think you should have this by now you don't…
TWSTD ZOO Please don't let me go Pull me away, I wanna stay Right…
We have lyrics for these tracks by Jamie Lawson:
...But Love Me Can we locate where we went wrong? It's driving me crazy It'…
A Darkness It was only a smile but my heart it went…
Ahead of Myself Don't wanna get ahead of myself But isn't this grand? Don't …
All Is Beauty There inside a moment of time I was thinking we were…
Almost All the Time Difficult as time is, I know this will heal. I can…
Brave Jesus, do I miss her. If she were mine to miss,…
Bruises An incision of the heart Another blood vessel burst You walk…
But Love Me Can we locate where we went wrong? It's driving me crazy It'…
Can't See Straight Shooting stars shining down on your face Dancing in the moon…
Cold in Ohio This city's always moving Nothing stays still Somebody's alw…
Don't Let Me Let You Go I know I make mistakes and I can let you…
Footprints in the Snow It's cold outside like I've never known I hold you knowing…
I Wasn't Expecting That It was only a smile but my heart it went…
I'm Gonna Love You From the way we often are From my hotel to the…
In Our Own Worlds We weathered the silence, weathered the storms. Weathered th…
Last Night Stars Last night stars are faded There's only a bright blue sky Co…
North Shore I go down to the North Shore Not far now from…
Oh What A Foolish Me Everthing is bound to fade if you give it time Everything…
Panic Attacks Opening Wounds that we broke are easily mended. I wrote you …
Petals I will hold your clothes, watch you as you swim. Naked…
Real Thing Call me if you need someone to hold you close You…
Seven Given the chances missed it. Given that fate must be twiste…
Some Ships Some say the day is done just as the sun…
Someone For Everyone All my friends and lovers, there's something I'd like to…
Still Yours This heart has been broken This heart has been fixed This he…
The Answer If I ask too many questions It′s cause I can't quite…
The Last Time If it's the last thing that you do If it's the…
The Only Conclusion I've been walking these streets In the finest of rain I'm so…
The Touch of Your Hand Well it bent and it bent til it finally broke And…
The Years In Between Quiet conversations Words that broke the air Distant observa…
This Is Love Well I can't hold on But I won't let go I am…
Union St Opening Sara, when did you grow up? Did you throw up over…
Use Somebody I've been roaming around Always looking down at all I see Pa…
Wasn It was only a smile but my heart it went…
Wheat for Billie Underneath near where I stand Found a brand new point of…
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I swear my eyes were lost in the darkness
Faltered forward, stumbled and fell
Your arms outstretched, pulled me from the hardness
Turned my world around
Tell me again ’cause I can’t contain this feeling
My heart could explode
Tell me again ’cause I can’t explain this desire
That’s taking it’s hold
Kiss me and then, tell me again
Here in your arms, save from the storm
Hold me gently, the further we fall
Into what you knew, we’d always be found
How you turned my world away
Tell me again ’cause I can’t contain this feeling
My heart could explode
Tell me again ’cause I can’t explain this desire
That’s taking it’s hold
How did I become the luckiest one
To sleep by your side every night?
Kiss me and then, tell me again
If you ever doubt this
Don’t worry, don’t worry, don’t worry, don’t worry
I’ll tell you again
Now I can’t contain this feeling
My heart could explode
Tell me again though I can’t explain this desire
That’s taking it’s hold
How did I become the luckiest one
To sleep by your side every night?
Kiss me and then, tell me again
Oh, tell me again
Kiss me and then, tell me again
How does this thing work?
How does this thing work?
Mia T
I still don't understand why more people haven't heard of Jamie, this is absolutely beautiful music
Joann Johani
I swear my eyes were lost in the darkness
Faltered forward, stumbled and fell
Your arms outstretched, pulled me from the hardness
Turned my world around
Tell me again ’cause I can’t contain this feeling
My heart could explode
Tell me again ’cause I can’t explain this desire
That’s taking it’s hold
Kiss me and then, tell me again
Here in your arms, save from the storm
Hold me gently, the further we fall
Into what you knew, we’d always be found
How you turned my world away
Tell me again ’cause I can’t contain this feeling
My heart could explode
Tell me again ’cause I can’t explain this desire
That’s taking it’s hold
How did I become the luckiest one
To sleep by your side every night?
Kiss me and then, tell me again
If you ever doubt this
Don’t worry, don’t worry, don’t worry, don’t worry
I’ll tell you again
Now I can’t contain this feeling
My heart could explode
Tell me again though I can’t explain this desire
That’s taking it’s hold
How did I become the luckiest one
To sleep by your side every night?
Kiss me and then, tell me again
Oh, tell me again
Kiss me and then, tell me again
How does this thing work?
How does this thing work?
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LittleLionFlower
This song is so beautiful. And so honest. This is how it feels. Kiss me and then, tell me again. Just one of those songs you need sometimes because you hear it for the first time and just go "Yes, exactly, that's what I wanted to say and I hadn't figure out how." Which is like, what music is for, really.
Paul Amirault
Wonderful song, lyrics, your voice, delivery and production:) You're a true star Jamie and thanks for sharing! !!
Hannah Walker
Love this song Jamie! Please come to Australia would love to hear this album live
William Neale
I can’t believe how good this guy is. I’d love to go and see him live.
Jen Jen
Just discovered Jamie (better late than never). OMG that voice ♥ Great talent.
SenorTurkey
I swear Jamie is one of my favorite artists next to Ed Sheeran. I can’t relate to his music so much.
Veroniqa Thomas
This is just plainly beautiful. 💜