Morris,Jenny Clear Blue In Stormy Skies CD

Clear Blue in Stormy Skies' is a watershed album for Jenny Morris. Between a dozen remodelled radio hits of the '80s and '90s is an overdue reaffirmation of her rare gifts as a singer and songwriter. More importantly, in the act of reinvention are the seeds of a revitalized future. It was a spontaneous, Gospel piano version of Paul Kelly's 'Beggar on the Street of Love', she says, that became the benchmark for an inspired flight of musical imagination. "after that i was really keen to make new songs out of everything. It was incredible how it happened. They all worked like a dream." surprises include the Keith Richards raunchy version of 'You're Gonna Get Hurt', a cosmic soul version of 'Body & Soul' and an ingeniously skewed retake of 'You I Know', kindly rewritten by it's author, Neil Finn, in Auckland late last year (That's him on guitars and backing vocals too). The rest of the album was made fast and loose in February '06 with Jenny's long term road partners: Steve Balbi (Noiseworks, Electric Hippies) produced and played guitars; Paul Searles (Skunkhour) played a range of vintage keyboards including piano, Hammond, wurlitzer and Rhodes. Backing singer Josh Quong Tart completed a small, close-knit ensemble. A combination of sonic classicism and fresh discovery reignites Jenny's first hit of '84, 'Everywhere I Go'. There's an instrumental arrangement of her most requested song, 'Little Little', and a languid INXS cover, 'This Time', in tribute to her friend Michael Hutchence.

1. Break in the Weather 2. Everywhere I Go 3. You I Know 4. The Time 5. She Has to Be Loved 6. This Time 7. Street of Love 8. Body and Soul 9. Gonna Get Hurt 10. Rhythm and Flow 11. Tennessee Waltz 12. (Little) Little Little