A subsequent performance at the South by Southwest festival in Austin, Texas brought Blunt to the attention of singer/producer, who signed Blunt to her label. Released in 2005, Blunt's debut album, Back to Bedlam, and its hit single, You're Beautiful, were hugely successful - the single hit number one in over a dozen countries, and sold over ten million copies worldwide. Blunt toured for much of 2005 and 2006, then released the two-disc 'odds and sods' CD/DVD Chasing Time: The Bedlam Sessions in 2006. He had been writing songs while on the road, and brought Back to Bedlam producer in again to record. (The songs featured writing collaborations with Mark Batson, Jimmy Hogarth, Steve McEwan, and, while the recordings featured Blunt's live backing band.) His sophomore effort, All the Lost Souls - featuring the leadoff single '1973' - finally dropped in September 2007.
Chasing Time: The Bedlam Sessions is a live album and DVD released by James Blunt in 2006 as a follow-up to his 2004 debut album, Back to Bedlam.The set contains a.
Disillusioned by success and what he felt as a perceived loss of artistic credibility, Blunt took a break from music before coming back in 2010 with his third full-length effort, Some Kind of Trouble, a more optimistic, spontaneous album influenced by '70s U.S. Pop/rock, which sold well despite not being critically well-received. In 2012 he returned to the studio with to track his fourth album, Moon Landing. Featuring 'Miss America,' Blunt's tribute to the late, and the country-folk-influenced single 'Bonfire Heart,' the record was released in October 2013. Roughly four years passed before Blunt would release another album. He returned in early 2017 with his fifth studio album, The Afterlove, which featured songwriting assistance from Blunt's friend and 's. Matt Collar, Rovi Read More.