Back to Bedlam

Blunt had piano and violin lessons as a child, but his first significant exposure to popular music was at Harrow School. There, he was introduced to the guitar by a fellow student, and started playing the instrument and writing songs at age 14.{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2005/08/01/bmblunt01.xml|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060427002710/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2005/08/01/bmblunt01.xml|url-status=dead|archive-date=27 April 2006|title=To be blunt, James, you are a trooper|first=David|last=Thomas|date=1 August 2005|work=The Sunday Telegraph|access-date=15 January 2014}}{{cite news|first=Chris|last=Neal|title=Back from Bedlam|work=Performing Songwriter|pages=56–60|date=November 2007}} At University of Bristol, his undergraduate thesis was The Commodification of Image – Production of a Pop Idol; one of his main references for the thesis was sociologist and rock critic, Simon Frith, chairman of the Mercury Music Prize panel of judges since 1992.{{cite news|title=Where did it all go Wrong?|last=Davis|first=Johnny|work=Q Magazine|publisher=EMAP Metro Ltd|pages=54–58|date=October 2007}}{{cite web|url=http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/edinburgh-college-art/music/staff/academic-staff?person_id=24&cw_xml=profile.php|title=Staff Profile (Simon Frith)|publisher=University of Edinburgh|access-date=15 January 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131112223823/http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/edinburgh-college-art/music/staff/academic-staff?person_id=24&cw_xml=profile.php|archive-date=12 November 2013}}

Because the British Army sponsored his university education, Blunt was obliged to serve a minimum of four years in the armed forces. He stated on an interview in his Back to Bedlam sessions that he chose to join the military as his father was "pushing for it, so that [Blunt] could obtain a secure work placement and income". Blunt trained at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst.{{cite magazine|title=The Blunt Life|date=4 October 2007|magazine=Rolling Stone|pages=56–58, 88}} While still in the army, he worked on demos during his time off. A backing vocalist and songwriting collaborator suggested he contact Elton John's manager Todd Interland, with whom she used to share a house. Interland told HitQuarters that he listened to Blunt's demo while driving home and after hearing the track "Goodbye My Lover", pulled over and called the mobile number written on the CD to set up a meeting.{{cite web|url=http://www.hitquarters.com/index.php3?page=intrview/opar/intrview_InterlandT.html|title=Interview with Todd Interland|date=29 August 2005|publisher=HitQuarters|access-date=15 January 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131214213805/http://www.hitquarters.com/index.php3?page=intrview%2Fopar%2Fintrview_InterlandT.html|archive-date=14 December 2013|url-status=dead}}

Blunt left the British Army in 2002 so that he could pursue his musical career.{{cite news|title=Rocket Man|last=Epstein|first=Dan|date=June 2006|work=Guitar World Acoustic Magazine|pages=34–41}} It was at that period that he started using the stage name "Blunt", in part to make it easier for others to spell; "Blount" is pronounced the same way, and remains his legal surname.{{cite news|first=Austin|last=Scaggs|title=Q&A|work=Rolling Stone Magazine |page=28| date=9 February 2006}} Shortly after leaving the army, he was signed to EMI music publishers and Twenty-First Artists management.{{cite magazine|title=James Blunt – Beautiful and the Beat|first=Michael|last=Poletta|date=21 July 2007|magazine=Billboard|pages=26–29}} A record contract remained elusive, with label executives pointing to Blunt's posh speaking voice as a barrier in class-divided Britain. Linda Perry, who was just launching her own label Custard Records in early 2003, heard Blunt's promotional tape when visiting London, and soon after heard him perform live at the South by Southwest Music Festival. She made an offer to him the same night{{cite web|url=http://www.hitquarters.com/index.php3?page=intrview/opar/intrview_LindaPerry.html|title=Interview with Linda Perry|work=HitQuarters.com|access-date=5 January 2006|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110425094840/http://www.hitquarters.com/index.php3?page=intrview%2Fopar%2Fintrview_LindaPerry.html|archive-date=25 April 2011|url-status=dead}} and within a few days, Blunt signed a recording contract with Perry, and one month later he was in Los Angeles working with producer Tom Rothrock.{{cite news|title=Linda Perry|last=Neal|first=Chris|work=Performing Songwriter|page=74|date=January–February 2007}}

Blunt recorded Back to Bedlam in 2003 with producer Tom Rothrock at Rothrock's home studio, using session musicians and performing on many different instruments himself.{{cite journal |title=Back to Bedlam album liner notes|publisher=Atlantic Records|date=October 2004}} While in Los Angeles, he lodged with actress Carrie Fisher, whom he had met through the family of a former girlfriend. Fisher was very supportive of Blunt's aspirations, suggesting the name of the album and providing use of a bathroom in her home for Blunt to record the song "Goodbye My Lover".

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| rev4Score = {{Rating|5|5}}[https://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/collective/A4180871 BBC – collective – james blunt – back to bedlam]

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| rev7 = About.com

| rev7Score = 8.6/10{{cite web|url=http://top40.about.com/od/albums/fr/backtobedlam.htm|title=James Blunt – Back to Bedlam|access-date=22 November 2013|archive-date=25 November 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151125042339/http://top40.about.com/od/albums/fr/backtobedlam.htm|url-status=dead}}

| rev8 = Slant Magazine

| rev8Score = {{Rating|3.5|5}}[http://www.slantmagazine.com/music/review/james-blunt-back-to-bedlam James Blunt: Back To Bedlam – Music Review] Slant Magazine

| rev9 = Relevant

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AllMusic felt "...the soulful British crooner James Blunt's wistful debut infuses the listener – in order – with rainy-day hope, the wistful comfort of unattainable love, and finally world-weary resignation. While his parched and effeminate falsetto recalls Gasoline Alley-era Rod Stewart with a healthy dose of Antony and the Johnsons, it's the late Elliott Smith who casts the largest shadow on Back to Bedlam." Q magazine and Common Sense Media awarded the album four stars out of five. RocknWorld stated: "It's hard to describe James Blunt or his music without falling prey to many a cliché or hyperbole. Comes from the UK, serves in the army then makes an album of movingly sincere ballads which make a huge impression on his homeland and Australia, thus allowing him to enjoy phenomenal, chart-topping success. However, in this case, the music Blunt is making does really deserve and warrant the hype surrounding him. Strangely enough, even with his music being all over the radio here in Australia, I cannot begrudge the fact that Blunt is truly talented and has made himself a damn good debut record." BBC Collective said: "It's very rare I give an album 5 stars. Many have come close, but just missing it. I never thought i would say this, but Back To Bedlam has not got one bad track on it. I've listened to it 3 times back to back, just to make sure." Slant Magazine said, in a three-and-a-half-star review, "Bedlam is an overall raw listening experience" and that, though "Blunt's writing often juxtaposes love with death", it's "More reason for American girls to go gaga over this able British bloke."

Indie London praised the album, calling it "...a masterful debut and one which you mustn't allow to pass you by." In a four-star review, About.com said: "To aptly describe James Blunt's music in his debut album Back to Bedlam, it would be an injustice to ignore the backdrop of his past and its relation to his music – in fact it's impossible to do so" and gave praise to the songs which they called "Hauntingly captivating, his words paint the pictures of many stories lived, masterly recited through his songs. Back to Bedlam seems not so much a pop compilation as it does a reflection of a life through the art of music." Nate Murray of Relevant gave a similar review, and compared his work to the likes of Elliott Smith, calling it "endearingly honest" and continued "...like any great writer, he invites the reader, or in this case, the listener, into the intimate details of life that resonate with most anyone. Combine such candid writing with a voice one interviewer has called 'disgustingly gorgeous', and you have a recipe for musical addiction. Blunt's talents have earned the endorsement of Elton John and led to comparisons with John’s early work, as well as the late Elliott Smith."

Mark Beaumont, writing for NME in 2016, included it on his list of eight of the all-time best-selling albums in the UK that have no redeeming features whatsoever, dubbing it the "most whiney, nails-down-a-blackboard posh-boy soul album in history."{{Cite web |last=Beaumont |first=Mark |author-link=Mark Beaumont (journalist) |date=2016-07-05 |title=Eight Of The Worst Albums In The UK's Top 60 Best-Selling Albums List |url=https://www.nme.com/blogs/nme-blogs/the-eight-all-time-best-selling-albums-in-the-uk-that-have-no-redeeming-features-whatsoever-6053 |access-date=2024-11-01 |website=NME |language=en}}

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| length8 = 3:37

| title9 = Cry

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| length9 = 4:06

| title10 = No Bravery

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{{Track listing

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{{Track listing

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| title4 = Goodbye My Lover

| title5 = So Long, Jimmy

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| title7 = You're Beautiful

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| title9 = Fall at Your Feet

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{{Track listing

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{{Track listing

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| title2 = High

| title3 = Out of My Mind

| title4 = No Bravery

| title5 = Goodbye My Lover

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• James Blunt – lead vocals; guitars (tracks 1, 5, 6, 9); organ on (tracks 3, 4, 6, 9); piano (tracks 1, 4, 5, 10); Wurlitzer electric piano (tracks 5, 6, 7); acoustic guitar (tracks 2, 7); Rhodes piano (tracks 3, 4); keyboards and marimba (track 1); classical guitar (track 3); twelve-string guitar (track 4); church organ (track 5); backing vocals (track 6); grand piano (track 8); mellotron (track 9)
• Sasha Krivtsov – bass (all tracks except 4, 7, 10); backing vocals (track 6)
• Charlie Paxson{{efn|Credited as Charlie Paxton|}} – drums (all tracks except 10); backing vocals (track 6)
• John Nau – Hammond organ (tracks 3, 5-7, 8); Wurlitzer electric piano (tracks 1, 3, 8, 9); piano (track 2); guitar sustain (track 4); backing vocals (track 6); tack piano (track 8)
• Eric Gorfain – strings (tracks 2, 4, 5)
• Richard Dodd - strings (tracks 2, 4, 5)
• The Section Quartet – strings (tracks 2, 4, 5)
• John "Gumby" Goodwin – electric guitar (track 3); backing vocals (track 6); slide guitar solo (track 7)
• Matt Chait – guitar sample (track 4); electric guitar (track 7); guitar (track 8)
• Jimmy Hogarth – acoustic guitar and keyboards (track 3)
• Sacha Skarbek – Rhodes piano (track 3)
• Amanda Ghost – backing vocals (track 3)
• Guy Chambers – guitar feedback (track 5)
• Tom Rothrock – backing vocals (track 6)
• W. Vincent – bass (track 8)
• The Producer – slide guitar (track 9)
• Linda Perry – guitar and production (track 10)
• P. III – bass (track 10)
• Brian McCloud – drums (track 10)
• Tom Rothrock – production, mixing
• Mike Tarantino – engineering; lead guitar (track 1); electric guitar (track 2); Mississippi guitar (track 7)
• David Guerrero – engineering (track 10)
• John Morrical – engineering assistance
• Andrew Chavez – engineering assistance (track 10)
• Don Tyler – mastering

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Eight of the ten songs on Back to Bedlam were licensed for use in television shows, movies, advertising campaigns and trailers, a total of 34 times. This included "Tears and Rain", "So Long Jimmy" and "Cry", tracks that had not been released as singles.{{cite magazine|title=Beautiful and the Beat|last=Poletta|first=Michael|magazine=Billboard|date=21 July 2007}}

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