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ARTIST
TITLE
Ten Blue Songs
FORMAT
CD

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TR 2040CD TR 2040CD
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RELEASE DATE
9/18/2026

Ten Blue Songs is Jason McNiff's tenth album and, despite the melancholy title, it is a record of celebration. A celebration of the musical life he has spent years trying to build. The album was produced and recorded by Trevor Moss at his studio Bexpop, in Bexhill-on-Sea. The aim was to value feel and performance over technical perfection. The album began totally live in the studio. The best moments of clarinet, double bass, piano and violin were then woven around McNiff's vocal and guitar performances. The result is a studio album that has the feel and immediacy of a live performance. "Nightshift Blues" was inspired by Italo Calvino's short story, "Tale of a Married Couple," set during Italy's post-war economic boom. Elsewhere, "Whoever I Am" takes inspiration from the stripped-back storytelling of Raymond Carver and Ernest Hemingway. McNiff cites "Scared to Love" as the emotional center of the album. "It made me quite uncomfortable to sing that line, to admit that feeling. I almost threw the song away. But I knew that discomfort meant there was something real in it." Jason McNiff was born in Bradford, Yorkshire, in the mid '70s. He was drawn to the guitar from an early age and by the time he moved to London in 1995, he was set on becoming a musician. Copying the guitar style of Mark Knopfler, he crawled the capital's dying blues circuit, jamming, and learning from older players, eventually landing at the Easycome Acoustic Club in Nunhead.