James Vincent McMorrow
James Vincent McMorrow
James Vincent McMorrow is an Irish singer and songwriter. He is best known for his albums Early in the Morning and Post Tropical...
NationalityIrish
ProfessionMusician
Date of Birth14 January 1983
CountryIreland
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I really wanted to approach performing live differently than most people who just play guitar and sing.
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I didn't really learn how to play guitar until I was in college.
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I didn't start playing music really until I was 18/19, so it was a relatively new thing. I didn't play much music in school.
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You play a couple of shows, and these label guys come - and they leave halfway through a show. Then the phone calls just stop. And your heart is broken.
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I think it's safe to say that if you talk to anybody in Ireland, they'll have a passing knowledge of the guitar. It was something that I couldn't get away from when I was younger: guitars played in shops and parties, just everywhere.
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I didn't start playing music really until I was 18/19, so it was a relatively new thing. I didn't play much music in school.
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All the really good guitar players - Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Page, or even Bert Jansch or John Martin - I love all those people. But I didn't start out thinking that I would be a guitar player. In the beginning, I played the guitar so I could sing. I mainly concentrated on my voice.
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You can batter your guitar, and it won't distort too much, which is important for me because I play with my hands a lot - I don't really play with picks.
full man saw
When I first saw Drake, I thought I was never going to like him based on the person that I saw on T.V. He's just so full on, and he's got the ladies' man thing, which isn't necessarily something that would resonate with me.
folk music
I don't know about folk music. I play guitar, so there's a feeling I make folk music.
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My first record was made in Termonfeckin, which is a small town on the north-east coast of Ireland. I had been in London, but it didn't click. So, at home, I didn't think about making something, just whether something could be made. There was no grand plan.
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More often than not, changes had to be made in order for a song to make sense, and by the end of it, it would just be something different. Lyrically, I am usually fairly confused until something is finished, and then it makes perfect sense to me.
music
The only thing that's ever made sense to me has been sitting in the house by myself making music.
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I've got an Avalon guitar - that's the company that used to be Lowden. They come out of Ireland, and they're like these folk kind of guitars. You can pick 'em, you can strum 'em - they're quite good.