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It’s ages since Paolo Nutini’s last album.
What’s he been doing? Getting out of
his comfort zone, finding his real
voice and writing the best
songs of his career
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day, hair askew and with flip-f1op on his otherwise bare
feet, Paolo Nutini doesn’t look like a man preparing to
launch a new album and go Into battle once again. No
doubt to his suconi label’s cOnsternation, the 27-year-old
has stifi not got round to flnallslng the track listing for
Caustic Love, his third album and the first since the
multiplatinum Sunny Side Up, which was released a
whopping 4’ years ago. You’ve taken your time, I say.
“ihat’s an understatement,” the Scottish-Italian singer
chuckles. “But it’s not like I’ve been making the album
for three, four years. We towed the last record for a year
and a bit, and I got to this point where I was only seeing
my family and friends at gigs, I was miles away from
home, my relationship was hanging by a thread and I
realised I was losing erythIng.”
There is no shortage of pop stars so consumed by
ambition that they wouldn’t let such concerns bother
them for a second. When Nutlnl’s debut album, These
Streets, came out in 2006, plenty of observers cast him in
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made him a note-perfect pop puppet to be bracketed
alongside Jameses Blunt and Morrison. The almost
recklessly mundane lyrics to the early hit single New
Shoes boy wakes up, gets dressed, has second thoughts
about his dirty, scuffed trainers, buys new shoes, feels a
lot better might hai been designed to pnMke.
Nutini doesn’t seem at all put out when I say this.
“With the firsi album, I didn’t really have any grasp of
what I wanted to do. who I was, what my voice was. I’m
still a bit like that. Will I write a song about shoes again?
No,” he chuckles. “But look, I’ve had conversations at
German music festivals with guys with Rammstein
T-shirts on about how much they like that song. So
these’s no saying.
iWo crucial points about Nutini were missed when he
first emerged, and both militated against the pelteption
of him as some gimlet-eyed, stop-at-nothing ptuveyor of
plasticised supermarket soul. The first was that, from as
far back as he could remember, he sang, inspired and
encouraged by his Italian paternal grandther, Jackie,
and listened to the Scottish folk recoixis Jackie played
him, as well as his dad’s collection of classic 1960s soul.
Music wasn’t ever a-choice, he says, and still isn’t. The
second point is that Nutini is part of a huge and
close-knit family, who sun three restaurants incluc’
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a fish-and-chip shop, still going strong more than 100
years after it was founded in Paisley, on the outsldrts
of Glasgow (where Nutini has his own house). They, arid his
childhood friends, rensain the key people in his life.
Money was fun when it started pouring in, he admits,
“boUt was never thegoaL I’wbeenlucky to have had so
mch success. But I don’t really spend a lot. It’s much more
about trying to achieve things. I’ve always felt that any
money I’ve earned Isn’t really mine, anyway it’s my
family’s. They helped me get there.”
Pressure has come from a diflerant source, and this is the
third, equally overlooked point about Nutini’s early career;
indeed, about almost all new artists who sign to majors and
enjoy rapid success. Everyone concerned In promoting,
packaging, even writing about such artists is culpable to a
degree: the labels, the managers, the media, the stylists, the
video directors, the concert promoters box up new singers,
then expect them to stay in that box. When Nutini signalled
his unwillingness to play nice, his label was aghast. The fact
that Sunny Side Up which found the singer broadening
his range and the sonic palette and Influences on which he
drew outsold Its predecessor vindicated that decision, but
it was clearly a far from happy period. And so, after the
Sunny Side Up tour, Nutini, his sales figures having bought
him some time, retreated once mom
He visited European cities he’d previously only seen from
the Inside of a tour bus. He read, voraciouMy, and watched
films with his mates, More unusually, he began to channel
his Inner carpenter. “The man I grew up to think of as my
grandfather on my mother’s side, a man called Eddie, he
was this old army hand, big white bushy moustache. He
dealt In scrap, he was always down at the lost-and-found at
the airport or the prison, and I’d be the little kid tagging
along, because he’d often look after me during the day. He
was proper white string vest and hand-drawn tats you
veuldn’thawmensedwlthhim.
• “He worked with wood, and made me this little rocking
horse when [was young, called Rocky. I still have It. Whit
tling and carving wood Is something I’ve always wanted to
do, yet I’ve still only dipped my toe in the water. I find It
therapeutic though there’ll be a lot of friends at home
who will hear that and go, ‘What a load of rubbish.’” Such
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spanning sessions In Glasgow, London, LA,
London again, Ireland and Spain has produced
songs that are at once lush and full of space, and a
millIon miles away from New Shoes,
“There was a moment,” Nutini says with an
unmlstakeable air of mischief, ‘when we’d done about
10-15 songs, when everyone thought we’d got it, but I just
said, ‘This isn’t it — and I’m not even making an album yet.’
You know, ‘If you want to pay the recording costs, fine, If
you don’t, no worries.” (You’d be pretty tempted to side
with the label at this point, right?) Months passed. And
more months. It was, says Nutini; a process of pulling at
endless threads from countless lakes and locations.
friends, and such pursuits, could not, he acknowledges, be
Finally, he was happy. “Look, I do what T do, The best
further away from what we imag
thing, still, is having an idea and,
ine a pop-star lifestyle to be. “But
eventually, hearing that idea back
I need to do that, go away and
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some education, some life, outside
silent and joy. But then you’ve got
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of a tour bus or a venue.”
to put it out there, and in doing
During the period between
that you have to accept that there
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Sunny Side Up and the new
are people who will like It, but
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album, I regularly bumped into
people who Won’t, too, That
Sitting in the Park
Nutini’s manager. I would always
doesn’t hold me back, though it’s
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ask how the new record was
a daunting realisation. You’re
coming along. And always get the
going to get the guys in a bar at
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mate’, andsomewho’ligo, ‘What
exasperation. On the contrary,
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just got to brace yourself.”
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around Nutini had Learnt when to
Vocally, NutinI has never
bother him and when to leave
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If anything, they can have the
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mical lion Sky (which contains an
positively sings with, and benefits
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thing and Diana ty an open-throated cry. Diana Is Caus
tic Love’s most daring moment, its dubby bass, ghostly
trumpet, Marvin Gaye-like backing vocals and staccato
guitar underpinning a lyric of raw power and urgency.
That the song gives way to the utterly beautiful, and
utterly simple, acoustic ballad Better Man doesn’t come
across as pranatIc, but rather as tb impulse of a musician
in love with music, and the joy it brings him. The vocal on
I,ookihglor Something is extraordinary, almost shredded.
“That’s a song about my mourn, so maybe that has something
to do wIth how 1elng It. I’ve played it to friends and some of
them have actually gone, ‘Is that you singing?’ I do think
I’ve worked In a bit of a comfort zone as a singer, on my
albums definitely. Live, I don’t. But It’s something I’ve
definitely been guilty of knowing I could change It, but
instead resting on my laurels.”
Much of the album was recorded live, which means, he
says, “you’ve got these amazing performances going on
around you, so you have to try to stand up to them. You
know, ‘I need to come up with something as good as where
this song Is going, because It’s eclipsed me.’ It’s a feeling
alniostof its being beyond your ability. And that’s wicked.”
Then, after a pause, he adds: “But there are countless days
when I feel that my ability needs to catch up with my
ambition.” To which you sort of want to reply: if Caustic
Love represents Paolo Nutini’s ability, what on earth does
his ambition soundllke?
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Exclusive: Watch Paolo Nutini’s ‘Better Man’ Live
Last month, when Paolo Nutini unveiled a live recording of the Scottish singer-songwriter
performing his vocally stunning new single “Iron Sky” in an Abbey Road live session, fellow UK
crooner Adele was hardly shy in her appraisal of its merits. “This is one of the best things I’ve
ever seen in my life hands down,” wrote the Grammy-winning singer, who knows a thing or
two about being a vocal powerhouse.
Adele is not alone. Since breaking out with his 2006 debut album, These Streets, Nutini, 27, has
become one of the best-selling acts in his native UK, simultaneously amassing a steady stream
of fans on this side of the pond. Now, five years after releasing his 2009SunnySide Up LP,
Nutini finally returns with both an EP (due April 15) and a new studio album, Caustic Love, out
later this year. In addition to the smoky first single “Scream (Funk My Life Up),” Nutini’s
forthcoming full-length album features the slow-burning charmer “Better Man.” You can
watch a lovely live version of “Better Man” recorded in France below.
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Both 2006’s These Street. and
2009’. Sunny Side Up were huge
hit. and
the Scottish
singer
required space and time to t.hfnk
about where he was going for
album number three.
He says
l needed to try and
experience something else.
The
success was a difficult thing for me
to get my head round. When it gets
too much I Just have to disappear.
to sort my head
Nutint admits hi. disappearing
acts cause problems for those close
to
He says ‘It frustrates friends and
family, they start to take it
personally and it really isn’t like
that They’re getting used to me
when I vanish to deal with stuff’
We have waited and waited foi
the return of the handsome singer
with the etwining soul voice. But in
taking his time, Nutini hs made
career-best songs on Caustic Love.
The 27-year-old, speaking from
the Bournemouth leg of his tour
one night before taking to the stage
with Roger Daltrey for the Teenage
Cancer Trust gig at London’s Royal
Albert Hell, says the tracks have
been going down a storm.
He says: “The shows have been
abmeihing else Dublin was like a
football crowd,”
Fixing his hair in his dressing.
room mirror, Nutint say.: “For me,
this album is eli about progression.
I’m really happy with It and it
. definitely sums up whore I’ve been.
1 I’m atwaye moving forward.”
When Nutini first appeared in
5 2006. he wee pigeon-holed as
: “another James Blunt or James
I Mot’rlton”.
Some preSumed he was a talented
singer fronting other writers songs
Caustic Love proves Nutini has
always been more then that.
He saye: ‘Ive co-produced a lot
of the songs on this album with
Dm1 Casteler, who I met when we
worked on the second album i’ve
learned a lot. When writing, you
coliect ideas and want a song to
sound a certain way. Co-producing
allowed that to happen.
“The way you react to each
challenge forms who you become
And this album reflects the Journey
I’ve been on these last few yeara.”
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doing everyday tasks he had never
had time for when he was on tour.
He say.: “I wanted to do other
things. where I could still get a
sense of achievement but doing It
at my own pace
“I was learning to work with my
hands and cook a bit more. I
learned how to fix things in the
house, do some woodwork.
‘1 drew a little bit, too. I wrote
poetry, stories and some material
for a graphic novel, These were eli
challenges for ma. but not in front
of anyone
I didn’t have an
audience.
“I Just wanted the time to go. and
to have fun.”
Nutini says it meant he could
give his all to touring when he
returned.
He ssys 1t’s a chaLlenge stepping
out in front of alt those peopie. tt’
never felt entirely natural end I
don’t think it ever will.
“Walking on stage scares the e’
out of me. big time. But It’s not t
bad ihing because those nerves
drive me. Now I’m ready for It.”
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Angeles, Ireland end Spstn
SixtIes-sounding soul number One
Day Is the moat infectious song
Nutini has made.
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with relationships
“The reality of being In a rela
tionship is not something
can
offer while I am doing this.
“But I admit there sre times
when there is so much you seant to
shore with a special-person
but
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the studio.
“0 completely understand how it
can drive someone nuts, because it
kind of does that with me too.”
Caustic Love saw Nutint work
with Bill Withers’ drummet’ James
Gadson and American R&B singer
Janelle Monee on the track Fashion,
He says. “James was absolutel
brilliant. He played with sue
enthusiasm and vigour, wantin to
do take after take, and sang a’ong
while he was playing,
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Studios saw Adele tweet: “F”'!I!
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ever seen In my life, hands down,”
trots Sky Is Nutirti at his most
polItical and features a Charlie
Chaplin speech from 1940 film The
Great DtCtstor.
Nutint explains “A lot of people
are asking if the song It about
Scottish independence, It’s certainly
not, What I am talking about is far
more universal than that,
“The more I watch politicians in
action, It just makes me angry.
It was a great encouragement for
“I watch certain politicians get
asked questions that need answers me to sing well. And of course I
wanted to hear the stories about
and they just prance around with
5th. You are trying to take it all In
big laugh and smile on thete face.
“Politicians have an arrogance and not trip out too much, because
that I just do not understancf I’ve it Is madneee.
Janehle was another great person
seen more constructive debates in
to t involved. I just asked, reaily.
hih school,
luckily she really hued the
People get disillusioned and
voting has little value to some
will that track be a singlen
people That’s sad
uttni says: “I hope not. I told
The alum also includes clever
samples from classic soul tracks, Jenelle that I wean t 100-per-cant
euro it should be ott the album.
such as Margie Joseph’s version
“I dig the tune, it definitely baa
The Supremee’ Stopi In the Name
Of Love nd Gladys Knight & The its place and Janelie has made it
but I just wasn’t sure it was
Pips’ Giving Up.
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Caustic Love is a modern day nhi doe the album.
Anyway. It made it.”
soul classic that wtll have the
Now back
to the swing of
cynics eating their words
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“I’m flow more open to things,
had the chance to play her that
too. We vs been on breakfast shows,
song property.
“She’s heard ii played live twice and we’ve been on the radio
hut I’ve still not played her the playing new versions of old songs
finished version. i’m waiting to give as well, I appreciate everyone’s
support, even those who are behind
bet’ the record
Last year Nutini spilt with hi the scenes.
For the last album I purposely
long-term girlfriend and childhood
didn t get involved itt certain bits
sweetheart, Ten
of promotion
I underplayed it too
Stunning ballad Better Man
written after the end of another much. I ni more open to these
things now.”
relationship,
But he hastens to add that fame
H has recently enjoyed a fqw
a still not something he is entirely
dates with Irish MTV presenter
comfortable with
Laura Whitmore
He says: “I never will be, I’m just
He says: “People change. I don’t
know II 1 ant changing for the not that type of person.
I Just see It as an opportunity
better or for the worse.
“I don’t think I’m any more rather than a hindrance. I Just
reliable than I was when I was 19. really appreciate what a platform it
I certainly don’t feel Lice I’m inkina is for people to listen to my music.
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this any more in my stride than t
used to, That song Ic bout my music to be heard.”
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This blend of reggae.
funk and blues is the perfect
soundtrack for lazy summer
days. Paolo’s doing the festival
circuit this summer and first
single Scream (Funk My Life Up)
is bound to be a hit, but Fashion,
featuring Janelle Monae, is
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The blue-eyed soul singer
act is a notoriously tough
one to pull off. For every Van
Morrison or Young
Americans-period David
Bowie, there Is a Michael Bolton or Marti Pellow, prone
to grating vocal gymnastics and over-emoting. On
paper, it should prove a tricky proposition for Paolo
Nutini, with his pin-up roots and the vague whiff of X
Factor finalist about his 2006 debut These Streets.
However, it was 2009 genre-uggl1ng successor Sunny
Side Up which spotlit his creative restlessness and
shape-shiftingtalents.
Written and recorded during a five-year vanishing
act, Caustic Love is Nutinl’s most cohesive and
Impressive record, taldng Its cues from the stoned R&B
of 6W Withers and the protest soul of early-’70s Curtis
Mayfleld particularly in six-minute opener Iron Sky,
with its plea for human togetherness in the face of
technological dislocation. Throughout it offers up a
grainy authenticity that harks back to the past while
still managing to sound very much of the moment.
A case in point being Let Me Down Easy, a decadesstraddling duet wish a sampled Bettye laVette from
her 1965 single of the same name that comes with
added eerie synths and a loping. Gonulaz-ish beat.
Later, the soaring ‘605 balladry of One Day picks up
where Amy Winehouse left off with Back To Black
Given his poppy past, there will likely be those who
remain snooty about Nutini. Caustic Love is a truly
excellent modern soul record, though, and will surely
silence even the naysayers. ** **
TOM DOYLE
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Paolo Nutini, ‘Scream (Funk My Life Up)’: Exclusive Video Premiere
Paolo Nutini’s engrossing new single ‘Scream
(Funk My Life Up)” announces the official
return of the acclaimed Scottish singer
songwriter after a prolonged break following
his 2009 album “Sunny Side Up.” After the
song was unveiled in January, “Scream” now
has an official music video, which you can
watch exclusively on Billboard.com below:
The rollicking funk track gets an appropriately
joyous music video, with Nutini traipsing
through a cracked reality of dancers,
skateboarders, beautiful cheerleaders and
leopard-print car interiors. The “Scream (Funk
My Life Up)” clip was filmed in Los Angeles, and Nutini says that he couldn’t get enough of the city’s
eccentricities.
“What a pleasure it was to make all of those interesting, beautiful people, giving us an insight into how
they do what they do and being kind enough to do it on camera,” says Nutini. “[I] loved every second of it.
Shine on, you crazy diamonds.”
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Nutini will release an EP in the U.S. next month, with his third full-length, “Caustic Love,” arriving in the U.K.
on April 14 and in the States later this year through Atlantic Records. Produced primarily by Nutini and Dani
Castelar, “Caustic Love” was recorded in Valencia, Glasgow, London and in the United States.
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groves, the soulful singer-songwriter goes
recording mad for album number three.
( t’s been some experience,” says Peolo Nutini of the
two years he’s spent recording his forthcoming, so-far
untitled third album. “A weird and wonderful
journey.” A productive one too. Nutini has over 100 songs to
choose from. “Some are threads,” he explains, “some are
chorus and verse, some are fully formed. Everything was
flowing out ofmy heart and soul, it was a constant train of
ideas. I was opening up and I had to get it all down.”
The recording process was free-flowing too, starting out
in an old police training building in the Gorbals in Glasgow,
ending up in the orange groves of Valencia and taking in
London, Dublin and Los Angeles along the way. Sounds like
a smashing holiday. “Yes,” he laughs. “Drinking Guinness
and riding horses in Dublin, checking out the drag in Venice
Beach, walking through ruins in Valencia, it was great.”
In Glasgow, at the police building, he miked up dormant
cells, shooting ranges and cloakrooms. “It was wild, there
were very weird acoustics to capture everywheref In
London, at RAK studios, he adopted a more traditional
approach working with a team that included Chris
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with Dave Sardy (Oasis, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Noel
Gallagher) and one with living legend” R&B drumm&i’
James Gadson, famed for his workwith Bill Withers.
“He milked the funk. He walked in, with his bass drum
over his shoulder, and said, ‘Are we good to go?’ He was
like, ‘Let me go again’ straight after, there was sweat
dripping on his snare. I was blown away.”
Nutini is reluctant to talk specifics and titles, but reckons
“musically, there are a lot of different colours, but where
[200g’s] Sunny Side Up had six atmospheres, this one has
two and it’s very melodic.” Lyrically, there’s a change too,
as he expands on his previous two albums’ ‘life, love and
sex” preponderance. “I’m still a soppy romantic, but I’m
constantly becoming more confused and bemused by the
never-ending state of war, which breeds more war, how
machines built by man are taking all of man’s jobs, how con
venience is taking over from something that was real and
tangible, how we live in a capitalist society with a faceless
oppressor.” Paolo Nutini, the protest singer? “It’s a heart
and soul thing,” he sums up.
Lois Wilson
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April 23, 2009
Introducing: Singing Sensation Paolo Nutini
Singer Paolo Nutini has played with some of the music world’s biggest groups. But the emerging
new talent, who fuses folk, blues and reggae with his Joe Cocker-esque vocals, has come into his
own. His sophomore album, Sunny Side Up, will be out June 2. Here are five things to know
about the eclectic musician.
Hes proud of his heritage: He hails from Paisley, Scotland, where he was raised but is half
Italian. And even though he talks with a Scottish brogue, he says, laughing, “I got me an Italian
name!”
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He’s humble: At the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, Nutini, 22, wowed the crowd
during his set even though he downplays it. “There weren’t too many people to start, but then a
lot came,” says the singer.
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He’s opened for Led Zeppelin and The Rolling Stones: ‘With the Stones it was amazing,” he
recalls. “I got to sing ‘Love in Vein’ with Jagger on stage. We rehearsed all set up in a hotel room.
They were so warm and welcoming.”
He’s a romantic: “Relationships play a big part in my day-to-day,” he says. “I’m in one. I’ve been
in the bubble with her since we were 15.”
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The raw throatiness of it all brings to mind
the great sandpaper voices of vintage soul,
from Wilson Pickett and Otis Redding to their
British imitators, Rod Stewart and Joe Cocker.
Given the texture and force of that voice, its
small wonder Nutini chose to fashion much
of his debut CD. 2006’s “These Times,” as a
retro-soul salute. Not that the album
succumbed to mimicry.
The singer then barely a 19 pup out of
Scotland gave his music distinction through
the thrilling youth of his delivery, as well as the friskiness of his lyrics.
The latter came through especially well in the single “Jenny Don’t Be Hasty,” an ode to
an older woman that threatened to become the “Maggie Mae” of this generation.
Now, for Nutini’s follow-up he has made a leap of Olympic proportions.
“Sunny Side Up” represents such an advance in both breadth of genres, and maturity of
perspective it sounds more like a fourth effort than a second.
Nutini didn’t entirely jettison references to ‘60s soul in his compositions. With his vocal
style he never entirely could. But the singer announces his intention to shake things up
from the very first track, “10/10,” a piece which draws jauntily on the flicking rhythms of
vintage ska.
From there, Nutini alludes to big band jazz (“Pencil Full of Lead”), vintage folk (a
reworked version of the rustic standard “Worried Man”), and even a ‘30s-style croon-a
thon Bing Crosby would have appreciated (“Keep Rolling”).
The result could have seemed show-offey, or diffuse. But the distinction of Nutini’s voice
makes it all cohere. Just the resonance of that voice would be enough to captivate, but it’s
even more stirring to recognize Nutini’s ambition to renovate his point of view.
That becomes most clear in the album’s greatest heart-tugger, “Tricks of the Trade”
whose melody has a pained beauty that mirrors the lyrics’ particular blend of acceptance
and regret.
Much like Buddy Holy’s “Learning The Game,” the song addresses getting your hands
around love’s changes and limitations.
If Nutini can communicate all that ache and beauty at 22, imagine all that can come from
him next.
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Upon hearing Paolo Nutini’s
second Atlantic outing. “Sunny
Side Up,” one would likely
never guess the 22-year-old
singer/songwriter is of Italian
descent and Scottish roots.
Nutini’s gravely voice recalls
more closely that of such
singers as Otis Redding, and
the soulful sounds of the
American South pulse through
his music. “Coming Up Easy”
and “No Other Way” best ex
emplify this, while the easygo
ing “Simple Things” and the
poppy, slide-guitar-backed
“Candy” highlight Nutini’s folky
side. At times, there’s a lack of
consistency with too many
ideas thrown onto the table
(see the bouncy ska of “Ten
Out of Ten” and the jazzy rag
time number ‘Pencil Full of
Lead”), but it’s that diversity
heard throughout Nutini’s
sophomore effort that gives
this AC singer/songwriter a leg
up.—JM
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Catching Up with Paolo Nutini
Soulful Scottish singer-songwriter Paolo Nutini’s 2006 debut, These Streets, sold more than 2
million copies and earned him a gig opening for the Rolling Stones (he was just 19 at the time).
We chatted with the comely crooner, now on tour in support if his optimistically titled sophomore
effort, Sunny Side Up, following his sold-out show at NYC’s
Terminal 5. —Erin Clements
How would you describe your music?
Urban folk.
Is Sunny Side Up a big departure from These Streets?
I think the production is the main difference. It’s been given a
lot more TLC than the first one.
How was the recording experience different with this
one?
had nothing else going on. This was all had to do: make a
record. There were fewer people wanting to hear songs and trying to manipulate them, and a lot
less record-company involvement, which was good.
Where did you record the album?
We recorded the first half in a place in Ireland called Grouse Lodge. We then recorded in
Rockfield in Wales and we tied the rest up in a place in Bath called Real World Studios.
You opened for the Rolling Stones at the Isle of Wright Festival in 2007. How was that?
It was an honor—very humbling. But you know, I don’t ask too many questions, I just sang a
song. We did a version of the song Love in Vain.”
What was Mick like?
When I met him, I think he was on good behavior.
What other musicians would you like to collaborate with?
Bill Withers.
What’s your favorite city to tour in?
I like Colorado—Boulder and Vail. There’s a good vibe. There’s a steady supply of Miller High
Life, and you can sit in the Jacuzzi while it’s snowing. That’s what it’s all about.
What’s the worst advice you’ve gotten?
There was a song we sang, “The Rich Folks.” It’s a pretty condescending song about really
wealthy people. We got on set and someone asked if we were doing it, and I was like, “Yeah,” not
realizing that we were doing the performance in the Hamptons.
Any ideas for the direction you want your next album to take?
It’ll probably be the best record yet—I can sense it. A lot of collaborations, guest spots.
Timbaland is going to produce it. Fergie will do background vocals. It’s going to be
genius. I’m going to take over the world.
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Fish ‘N’ Chips Slinger Turned Singer Paolo Nutini
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hsten to Paolo Nutinis new album, Sunny Side
Up, you can hear echoes of Bob Marley, Otis
Reddirig or a young Dean Marhn. Nutini grew up in
Scotland, ani:l as Daniel Zwerdling found out, he is
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answer that reveals equal parts
humor and modesty. “I’m just
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he says with a laugh. In fact,
the Stateside release of These
Streets (Atlantic) promises to
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soul prodigy squarely front
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fluences: As a boy in Paisley.
Scotland (where his family
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and-chips shop), little Paolo
loved to listen to his dad’s
old Drifters records, and he
credits I)amien Rice’s 0 with
inspiring him, at seventeen.
to pick up a guitar.
‘i’ve never had one style
that I thought I was good at,
Nutini explains. “I’ve always
iust taken it as ii comes,”
This laid-back philosophy
lines up nicely with the words
of wisdom Nutini received
ftom Rolling Stones guitarist
Keith Richards last summer.
when he opened for the rock
legends. “He told me to just
keep on taking it down the
line,” Nutini remembers.
But standout songs like
“Jenny Don’t Be Hasty”
and the blues-tinged “New
Shoes” also showcase the
raspy-voiced singer’s ability
to make something fresh out
ol’ such universal experiences
as falling in love or moving
to the big city. “I’m only sing
ing about what 1 feel,” Nutini
insists. “I don’t think that a
song has to be complex to cap
ture somebody’s imagination,
to say something that maybe
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surviving grand music hail, has seen some such as Ray Charles, Otis Reddiug and Aretha
sights in its 150-year history. On this bright Franklin). When Nutini signed to Atlantic in May
spring evening, though, it is reverberating to a specta- 2005, just after he had turned 18, Ertcgun wasted no
cle that is, in a small but thrilling wayjust as enthral- time in hymning his takuta ‘He’s the most promising
ling. Paolo Nutini, a compact Scotsman of Italian ung artist we’ve had in the past few years,’ &tegun,
descent, is tinging on Wilto&s stage with a six-piece enthused. ‘He’s a wonderful singer and he has a true
band. Dressed in designer jacket and trousers, Nutini feeling about his music. When he sings his songs
hunches over in an old mans stooR his hands cm- people feel them very strongly, and that’s what creates
dung theair etther sideof themicrophoneasif he is j agreatstar.Thnewifltell but I’massureaboutPaolo
grappling with the music pouring from his mouth.
as I’ve ever been about any artist Pvc ever bad.’
Like Rod Stewart in his mid-1970s prime, Nunni
The following year Nutini was invited to play at
hasawbitesoulumceofextraordinary,almostother- NewYorkCamegieHallinagalaconcertinhonour
worldly power and impact. He sounds as though he of Ertegun; be shared a stage with Liza Minnelli
has spent a lifetime picking cotton in America’s Deep and a 120-piece orchestra. At Ertegun’s request
South,
rthan22yearsasthescionofa 100-year-, Nutiniperformedaspartofanall-starllne-uparthe
old Glasgow fish and chip shop dynasty. But unlike Montreux Jazz Festival Chic were his backing band,
Stewart a great interpreter of other people’s songs
and Solomon Burke and Ben EKing were also on the
Nunni is a talented songwritet The singles Jenny bill. When Ertegun’s death in December 2006 was
DoWr Be Hasty, New Shoes and Rewind were ubiqui- marked by Led Zeppelin’s much-ballyhoooed reunion
tour on British television and madio and made signifi- concert at London’s 02 a year later, Nutini was
cant inroads into America, where his songs appeared picked as the support artist.
on CS!, Grey Anatomy and Scrubs. Such exposure
None of this has made Nutini a household name.
raised the profile of his 2006 debut album, These He is different from his singer-songwriter contempo
Streets, which after charting at number three in Britaint ,raries James Morrison and James Blunt not least,
achieved worldwide sales of 2.3 million, 300,000 of’ Max Lousada, the MD of Atlantic in Britain, notes,
them in the US the result, in part, of a staggering because ‘when he performs there’s something like that
work rate and what Brendan Moon, one of his man- old Otis Redding or Tom Waits feeling. He’s inher
agers, describes as 106 ‘back-to-back’ American gigs.
endy an old soul singer.’ The commercial world, on
If These Streets erred on the safer side of pop next the other hand, has taken note: Puma hired Nutini
month’sfoUow-uSwmySideUp,isamuchmore and his song New Shoes-to be part of a global
satisfying affair: a raw, rootsy collection bristling with advertising push. Ray-Ban, too, has featured him in
songs whose influences range from Celtic folk and
New Orleans ragtime to mid.1970s Californian rock. ‘WHEN HE PERFORMS THERE’S SOMETHING
Nutini’s career got off to a flying start with the ‘LIKE THAT OLD TOM WAITS FEELING.
patronage of Ahniet Ertegun, the legendary talent HE’S INHERENTLY AN OLD SOUL SINGER’
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working-class traditiost, reconciling his rcspomibility to the family business with his booming
music career ‘Is a bard one’, but in his mid-teens
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itletha temoon before the WtPton show, and began spending time after school in local recorda wry tired Nutini has driven in on his tour bus ing studios, being mentored by older musicians
overnight from Paris, where he was appearing on He was ‘discovered’, in a roundabout way, via
France’s biggest talevidoc music show Tcmonnw; the television talent show finne Arssdeety. David
he will fly to Cube to us last-minute video for Saeddon, the 2002 winner; was from Paisley As
the new single, the wistful, Eagles4ike Candy. His a homecoming reception in the town ball, a IS.
new album is still several weeks from release and 1 ycar’old Nutini hopped on stage and sang an
already he seems ground down by the multiple pee- Elton John song (neither be nor his mng.r
motional demands being made of him. As Moon remember whkh) In the audleitce thet night was
puts it. ‘Vk always describe Paulo as the boy who’s Brendan Moon. then the head of radio premotiou
got too much homework.’
for Mercury Sacddoe’s record labeL
Nutini’s paternal grandfathee, Giovanni (known
‘When he was on that stage be took on the
as Jackie), was the first Nutini son to be born in whole audience’ Moon recalin ‘There was a total
Scotland after the family immigrated from Tuscany connection straight away.’ Moon gave Nutini his
at the turn of the last century Giovanni embraced contact details after the show, and eventually set
Scottish folk music and Italian culture, and intro- him up in a studio with Jim Dugttid, the drummer
duced his grandson to both. ‘He was certainly with a Glasgow band called Speedway, and they
a son of both Paisley and Tuiscanc’ Nudni says began to write soup together. ‘Paulo didn’t play
of Giovanni, wbodied when he was 12, and about mucbguitarthun-hewould write prcttymuchthe
whom be wrote the song Aunerv, for These Snwrs. whole of a song in his head: Moon says
He was wry Italian the way be looked, his manIn 2004 Nutini signed a song-publishing deal
ness, his personality He spent a bell of a lot of well,hismohee,Liada,did.atll,bersocwastoo
time in Thacany Same as my father.’ Paolo Nutini, young to sign a oontract. That year he moved to
for his pert, tries to visit their home villz Barge, London. ‘My father was wry encouraging.’ Nutini
annually, and speaks Italian. ‘My grandfather’s says ‘He snared out the people I was getting
a legend over there. He certainly wasn’t strait-laced nvolved with. When became to visit I always tried
despite being a family man, a working man. He .(óletbimseethatlwwsmovbgingoodcircles,not
was a bit off the wall.’
just going down there to bang about, take drugs
When Giovanni became ill. Nutini’s father, and be stupid.’
Alfiedo took over Castlevecchi, the famll)’s chip
Nutini lived off his publishing advance, develop.
shop and cafe in Paisley a largely working-class lug his songs and trying to secure a record deal
town on he outskirts of Glasgow. ‘It was expected while exploring London. Within sax months he was
of my dad at the time,’ Nutini says ‘He got signed to Atlantic. ‘I wasn’t a tortured waiter who
involved, maybe with a view toit being a tempo- could sit in his room all day and write up these
rasy solution. mesa it just became a way of life. things,’ Nutani says of his early days in London.
Andit’sgoingtobcsomethingliaeedtodecideat ‘I was learning, I was trying to take in things.
some point as wall. It may just bee chip shop but find stuff to write about.’ One such experience was
is’s been there for a hundred years for a reason.’
a relationship with a woman five years his senior
For Nutini, mindful of Italian and Scots he bad split up with his girlfriend from school when
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reel age, she beast up with him. The experience
inspired the song .forey DeWs Be Hasty.
Nusini is now reunited with his childhood sweet
heart, Ten (about whom he has wnttm a new;
gossamer-light ballad, Growing Up Beside You).
He has bought a house In Paisley (they don’t live
together; and he declines to discuss her further) in
which he hopes to install a basiment studio Be
tells me be Is much happier beck in sanalkown
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Nutini is a man of strong opinion. He split uJ
with Duguid, his co-writer and the do facto mwica1’
director of his band, last year. ‘He wanted to write
more,’ Nutlni says ‘But I wanted this album to be
my little thing.’ To that end Nutini started produc-;
lug Swvty Side Up himself before Ethan Johns, an
experienced producer of Kings of Leon and Ryan
Adams, was drafted in to help complete the record.
Now ‘there’s all these politics creeping in about
production credits and whose name goes first.’
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Nutini also disagreed with the label over the choice
for the album’s first single. With a sigh he says.
‘Charts and learning the politics behind making a
record it’s pretty soulless’
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That night at WIIton Music Halt, P.olo NutWis
a revelation. Olrly squeals from the audience may
greet the hit single Lass Repiest but the falsetto
vocal and bhaesy harmonica-and-ukulele shuffle
of the new song JIgh Hope, are far more enter
raining. It is a gripping show frem an artist who
refreshingly refuses to play the game of toeing
the line, mouthing platitudes and fawning to those
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‘He’s an old-school, real artist, and an amamug
pcrformer’ Max Lousada at Atlantic Records says
‘But he doesn’t conform not in interviews, not
to the record label. Although the road is slightly
bumpier with PaoIc ultimately when he gets on:
stage and sings, you feel it. You feel his passion.’
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A
S A CHILD GROWING UP IN
an apartment above his
parents’ fish-and-chips
shop in Paisley, Scotland,
nineteen-year-old Paolo Nutini
never imagined a career as a singersongwriter let alone that he’d be
rubbing elbows with his heroes
while barely out of high school. Nu
tini has already performed with
Ben E. King, whom he cites as his
biggest musical influence, andhe
even opened for the Rolling Stones
in Vienna. “I met the guys after
wards, and we had a chat,” he says:
“Mick thought I was Italian. When
I told him I was Scottish, he
laughed and said, ‘If I’d known you
were Scottish, I wouldn’t have
booked ya here’”
SOUND Nutini says his debut al
bum, These Streets which has
already sold 250,000 copies in the
U.K. tells the stor of “three
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years ofsome teenage Scottish kid’s
life.” His throaty, heavily accented
singing voice has earned frequent
comparisons to Joe Cocker and
Faces-era Rod Stewart. though the
ballads he sings have more in com
mon with James Blunt and Daniel
Powter. “My music has quite an
eclectic mix,” says Nutini. “It has el
ements of rock, soul, folk and even
some electro.”
HASTY EX “Jenny Don’t Be Hasty,”
the lead-off track on These Streets,
tells the story of a particularly
nasty breakup with a girl he met
in London a year ago. The theneighteen-year-old Nutini told the
twenty-three-year-old Jenny that
he was twenty-two. “Soon as I
told her the truth, she slapped me
and sent me packing,” he says.
“Made me feel like an eight-yearold-boy. I haven’t heard from her
since.”
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Paolo Nutini was destined to
become the fourth generation
of men in his family to run a
fish and chip shop in Paisley,
Scotland—until one fateful day
when, at 15, he happened to
know the answer to a music trivia
question and won the chance
to sing at a local cercer In the
cowd that night was the man
who is now Nutini’s manager.
A SoUl music-loving prodigy,
Nutini says his background of
writing poetry and singing in his
high school choir really paid off.
“I was the cclv male fl the whole
choir, so that wasn’t bad, he
jokes. “The music wasn’t my style
but it was just a way to sing.”
After adding choruses to his
poems and working with his piano
teacher to put chords to them, he
recorded his first sortg, moved to
London, and ended up signing
with Atlantic by his 18th birthday.
His debut album These Streets,
which hits the U.S. in Jariuari,
went gold in the U.K. just two
weeks after its release. A mixture
Of rock, folk, and soil, the record
sees Nutini effortlessly moving
from Darnien Rice-type acoustic.
balladry (“White Lies”) to fullband rock n roll (“Jenny Don’t
Be Hasty’) in a voice that sounds
like Rod Stewart meets Maroon 5
wirh a hint of Scottish brogue.
These Streets is an
autobiographical account off the
Scot’s move to London, the ‘big,
bad world wlieie the streets have
too many names’ On Motown
esque ballad “Last Request.” the
single that debuted at number
five in the U.K., Nutini yearns
Paolo Nutini could have been hocking halibut, but instead he’s
rocking out with the Rolling Stones. Now that’s a lucky break.
By Lisa Heffernan. Photographed by Andy Wilisher
to be with his high school
girlfriend one more time, while
the aforementioned “Jenny Don’t
Be Hasty” recounts a relationship
he had with an older woman of
23 who gave him his marching
orders when she found out he
was only 18.
N: tini’s ltalian grandfather
was one of the 19-year-old’s
biggest influences. His “nonno,”
who died when he was 12 (and
who is the subject of standout
track ‘Autumn”), used to play
the piano and sing while Nutini
looked on 0 awe. And the R&B
records in his dad and aunt’s
extensive collections further
encouraged him to perform.
I became fascinated with
Sam Cooke’s voice,” recalls Nutini
“Van Morrison, Bill Withers, these
guys made me want to sing. I
viould sing along with Ben E. King
but ittwas just something to pass
the titrie.i. Little did the lanky teen
realize he would soon be singing
with hi hero at the Montreux
Jazz Festival, where King actually
called h)rn up onstage to perform
a duet.
While Nutini has sold out
shows across Europe, one would
think his two gigs opening for the
Rolling Stones (at their request)
this’ past summer might have
been the ultimate experience, but
the laid-back singer keeps it all
in perspective: “You can’t really
think about it too much because
there’s just so many people there
to see the Stones! It’s like playing
before Elvis. So you just wanna
go up there and play your ass off
and have a good time.’
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But it wasn’t quite the rock-star lifestyle that a 16-yearold kid might imagine.
“I set up the drum kit, sold the T-shirts, helped load in
and did all the infinite PR stuff’ he said laughing. “It gave
you an insight of the not-so-glamorous side, not that it is.
he sandpapery sttäins of his debut album suggest an
glamorous at all. It’s just a riot:’
Nutini toured on and off with Speedway for about a
old American bluesman. His name sounds like that of
year before he took the plunge and moved to London. He
some Italian opera star. Paolo Nutini is neither.
went there with one thing on his mind: to sign with a label,
and shortly after his 18th birthday in May 2005, luck came
But the singerlsong
knocking in the form of an Atlantic Records deal.
writer has drawn compari
In typical fashion for the singer, everything else hap
sons to the likes of Joe
pened quickly.
Cocker, Rod Stewart, and Al
After signing with Atlantic, Nutini hooked up with 13
Green for his soulful, raspy
Artists and William Morris Agency. Within a year, he was
voice, commendable cri
playing South By Southwest, Carnegie Hall for the New York
tique for a 1 9-year-old kid
Pops Birthday Gala, the Mdntreux Jazz Festival and even a
from Paisley, &otland.
few support slots for The Rolling Stones.
Since the release of his
Luba explained the frenzy surrounding the performer.
debut album These S,treets,
“Things with Paolo tend to move really fast because he’s
which entered the UK album so compelling,” he said. “You meet him, see him or hear him,
charts at No.3 in July, Nutini and from little kids to old ladies, everyone relates to it.”
has ridden a wave of success
Following the July release date, Nutini played U.K. and
in Britain and Europe.
European club gigs and a festival circuit before heading
A lot of that success
back to Texas for the Austin City Limits FestivaL
may have to do with Paoki
Nutini said he
Nutini not being exactly
doesn’t mind the
what he seems to be. The singer got his name from Italian
nearly constant tour
BO0mNE AGENCY
heritage on his father’s side of the family, Scotland natives
ing
as, at this point, he
William Morris Agency
for four generations. And although he looks like hed be
and his band have just
(North America)
more comfortable in a Calvin Klein ad than singing the
Kirk Sommer
been working to im
blues at a club (he recently signed a contract with London’s
310.859.4375
prove their live per
Storm Models), Nutini’s album and live performances have
formance one club,
13 Artists
debunked cries of him being just another pretty face.
festival, or store ap
(International)
Mike Luba of Madison House, who co-manages Nutini
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Bawden, dismissed the modeling contract as a side note,
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for Paisley singer David Sneddon. The concert was
gin his first real go at
“Music is not delayed and an impromptu talent competition was orga
touring in the States.
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Nutini sakf he tries to let things evolve organically, and
something that can favorable response from the crowd, induding one audience both he and management understand, most importantly,
member in particular, Brendan Moon. Moon offered to
that the singer has to stay true to himself and not rush
be mode in a factory. manage him and Nutini
got his start in the bia when he
things.
“Music is not something that can be made in a factory:’
Vou’ve got to just let quit school and lit the road.
Moon put Nutini in the studio and hooked him up
Nutini said. “You’ve got to just let it come out of you. I’m all
it come out of you. with another of his clients, the band Speedway, as a supfor spacing out what I’m doing, and talcing the downtime to
porting act and roadie on its tour.
work on the ideas that I have.”
“We would go on and we would support them before
Luba agreed.
the gigs:’ Nutini told Polistar. “In order to make it sort of
“I think if this is done really wisely and with a little restraint,
financially feasible we would have other jobs so that the
then the kid is going to have a career for a very, very long time.”
record company could pay us to go.”
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LONDON—One of the last
new artists to benefit from the
unmatched insight of Ahmet
Ertegun takes his U.S. bow
this month.
Paolo Nutini’s soul-tinged
debut Atlantic album “These
Streets” gets a stateside re
lease Jan. 30, after shipping
500,000 copies In the United
Kingdom and a further 150,000
in France and Germany, accord
ing to the label. The Scottish
singer/songwriterisalreadyat
tracting triple-A airplay with
lead track “New Shoes.”
While declaring himself
ready for the U.S. challenge, Nu
tini wishes he had the continu
ing sponsorship of Atlantic’s ccfounder, who died Dec.14.
“Ahmet—God rest his soul—
the first thing he said to me was,
‘That ‘Shoes’ song, boy, that’s
a hit,’ “Nutini recalls wistfully.
“That’s the one thing that
saddens me about going over
to the States [this] year,” he
says. “I thought I’d get a bit
more wisdom off Ahmet. At
Montreux Jazz Festival [in sum
mer 2006], he was so unhappy
with the way the music was
coming across—I was too quiet
the drums were too loud—he
went to the mixing desk and
mixed the Sound.”
Nevertheless, Nutini has At
lantic’s enthusiastic support as
Scotland’s latest hot newcomer,
following Franz Ferdinand, KT
Tunstall and others.
“it’s a testament to Paolo’s
talent that Ahmet had really
taken him under his wing,”
Atlantic chairman/CEO Craig
Kallman says. “Atlantic has a
long history of signing British
artists and introducing them to
America. From Cream to Led
Zeppelin to Phil Collins, what
they’ve had in common is the
kind of charisma, heart and soul
that crosses boundaries and
oceans. Paolo has the same
trans-Atlantic appeal.”
Nutini hits American shores
following Atlantic’s success with
another U.K. composer/per
former, James Blunt, but both
artist and label spurn direct
comparisons.
“[Blunt] just went over my
head, but good luck to the guç”
the Warner/Chappell-published
Nutini says. “The door has been
opened to singer/songwriters,
but to say I’m the next James
Blunt could be an automatic
turnoff for some people.”
“We’revery fortunate to have
two hugely gifted British singer/
songwriters in the current At
lantic family,” Kallman says.
Draw gmai*etingcompansons
between them, he suggests,
“does a disservice to both. Our
Paolo plan is tailored to Paolo.”
Atlantic seeded “These
Streets” with September’s “Live
Sessions” ER On US. T Nutini
has already performed twice on
Craig Ferguson’s “Late Late
Show” (CBS) and on PBS’
Nutini’s Soulful Streets Lead To Atl
antic Crossing
The Shoe Fits
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“Austin City Limits.” During the
album’s release week, he will ap
pearonNBC’s”Today” and “Late
Night With Conan O’Brien.”
His first North American club
tour, booked by William Mor
ris, launches Jan.25 in Chicago
and ends April17 in Vancouver.
(International bookings are
through 13 Artists.)
Atlantic was deciding radio
format strategy immediately
after the holidays. Airplay
played a vital role in Nutini’s
U.K. breakthrough, with early
support from national AC net
work BBC Radio 2.
“I saw Peolo perform live be
fore he’d released anything,”
Radio 2 executive producer of
music Cohn Martin says. “There
was this young guy with a re
ally interesting voice. What re
ally clinched it for me was the
songs, which were very mature
and instant.”
The album debuted at No.3
on the Official U.K Charts Co. list
ing in July 2006, following the
top five single “Last Request”
Nutini, a teenager until Jan.
9, signed to Atlantic in May
2005. “It doesn’t feel like [suc
cess] has been as fast as
maybe it seems,” he says, “because I’ve been doing this for
four years. Atlantic wanted to
give me time to become who I
was—but I don’t say I just
wanted to be myself, because
I don’t really know who I am.
Whenever I go home [to Scot
land], that’s where my inspira
tion seems to come from. I just
want to get on with playing live
and getting better.”
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99-CENT Di Hook up
your outdoor speakers
and Invite the
neighbors oven Critic
Scott Rampton has
your ultimate playllst
for the long weekend
FRIDAY, 10 AM., BEACH BOUNDi
Merle DIgh ‘Avelanche.’ Warm
usA
ioY
and breezy this tattered-heart
pop is a mll-yourwindows-down,
sing-along treat
2 P.M., BREAK FOR
SOME SHADE: Paolo Nutini,
“Candy.” The young raspy Scot
does sweeping Americana
folk—perfect mood music as
you set up the summer cottage.
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meets avant-garde rock—
twisted as saltwater taf
SATURDAY,
pop
)2 P.M, GRAR
1COOtERON
YOUR WAY OUT
THE DOOR: The
Phenomenal
I dapBan4’lStHando
20.’ Slept in? This
languid funk with
a playground-taunt
chorus will sitift you
into high gear.
May 19, 2009
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This bittersweet Np-hop nostalgia trip
arrives at the end of the continuous-play
Are bu In?, and is worth the wait.
lime l)’adts
You Down
Swing Out Sister
Retro-soul doesn’t get much smoother
or sweeter than this confection from the
Brit-pop outfit’s new Beautiful Mess.
SATURDAY, 10 PM, UGHT UP
THE F1REWORNS; We Were
Promised Jelpacks, ‘Quiet Little
Voices.’ Madiy passionate postpunk to punctuate your fourminute bottie-rocket blowout
lAm Stretdwd
on Your Grove
Sinéad O’Connor
A stark remix of O’Connor’s seductive
dhge is on the new double-disc edition
oflDo Not Want WhatiHaven? Got.
Don’t I64rny Baby
The Beach Boys
A stereo mix of the group’s beatific
classic is featured on the collection
Summer Love Sorgs, out today.
SUNDAY, I A.M. DANCE UNEI
YOUR DRESS IS SOAiCED Gossip,
Hesvy Cross.’ Throbbing
electro beats. slashing guitars.
Wallet
Tern Hendrix
The indie troubadour confronts life’s
contradictions with earthy fortitude on
this jangly winner fipm Left OverAlLs.
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and Beth Dittos hacksaw
sop,ano—be careful not to
pogo off the porch.
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BBQ: Emily Wells, ‘Juicy.’ A violin
protégé covers Notodous BIG,--
and lust Pike that ciroddarwursl.
the odd combination works.
SUNDAY, 9 P.M. RELAY.. THERE
ARE TWO MORE MONTHS OF
THIS: Pete lom, ‘Last Summec”
Made-f0-order alt•pop for the
hammock-swinging season.
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De La Soul
SATURDAY,? PM.
HIT THE PARTY UKE
YOU OWN IT: Omar
Faruk Tekbilek,
“Shashkln (Unity
‘i’ This funky
TurlUsli dot hi promises to get
hips shake.g around the fire pit
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USA TODAY music critic Elysa Gardner highlights 10
intriguing tracks found during the weeks listening.
Overture
A 50th-anniversary disc is a fresh excuse
Original Broadway
to revisit one of musical theater’s most
cast recording. Gypsy razzle-dazzling overtures.
Kisses Sbweter
ThwrWlne
The Weavers
Candy
Paolo Nutini
Nancy With the
Imighbig Face
Kurt Elling
These BootsAre
Ma&for hikhr’
Sam Phillips
90-year-old Pete Seeger isclearly not
ready to go, and this chronicle of endless
love has lost none of its bouquet
On the softly glowing single from Sunny
Side Up, due June 2, Nutini captures the
fuzzy exuberance of voun love.
Lung’s Dedicated to tu, our June 23, is
highlighted by the jazz singer’s gorgeous
reading of this Sinatra staple.
This Nancy Sinatra cover from 1994’s
Pr&—à-Porter soundtrack also is a vintage
vehicle for Phillips’ wry, dusky purr.
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It has been a while sthce a
year-old Nutini shows on this
debut album. Blessed nth a
ddw,eawres
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with fóllc R&B, clssic and
mo&rn rock textures, he and
his co-sormwijters craft a se
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Paolo
Nutini
These Streets
Scottish-born singer-song
writer Paolo Nutini possesses an old
soul and grittyvoice that belie hisynung
age (he’s 20) and pretty-boy looks. On
his debut album, already a hit in the
U.K. (where it was released last July),
Nutini seems to be channeling a bit of
Ray Charles on the soulful ballad “Last
Request. where, on the verge of a
breakup, he tenderly pleads fora tem
porary reprieve: “Sure I can accept that
we’re going nowhere/ But one last time
let’s go there.” On another highlight,
the wistful, acoustic-guitar-driven
‘Rewrnd,” he shows that he’s more than
capable ofbeing this yea?s James Blunt,
although Blunt could never do bluesy
rock as Nutini does on “Jenny Don’t
BcHasty”-c.
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Gmenniys earned by her aitLwi%hirsr 2002
debut. tIer third Cl) release, At’s The toM
is anethen oc4tect.osi of lijimaxe, laJigucatub
songs that showcase Jones’s ext riurdinary
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a bandsinne. 20-;casoW Seoniah thger
in the “blue-eyed sour’ tradition of Rod cwasc
and Vtii Mci nson. A little lit Freddie Mercury,
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haven’t even ‘e1eased their first
albums yet not in this country anyway. But
that hasn’t stopped the world’s early adapt
ers from murmuringtheir names with awe. Be-.
low we bring you those singers and musicians,
poised to splash down on our shores, each
graced and cursed with the charge of advance
buzz. Consider them music’s new faces of ‘07.
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Paolo’s Ultimate Playlist
Already a hit in the U.K. Páolo Nutini’s debut CD, These
5tieers, hits U.S. shelves this rnonth.We asked the 20-yearold singer-songwriter for his ritimate playlist, which he
has titled ‘Really Cool Songs’ Prepare to ewoon h&s one
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smooth talker (Must. Resist. Scottish. Charm ,..)
I. VAN MORRISON, UALLRRINA’
His ‘ice is sO sr.cere. I really believe the words he sings.
Also, I love the brie, ‘and if somebody, not just anybody
wanted to get close to you ...for instance me, baby’
2. JOHN MARTYN, ‘DON”r WANT TO KNOW’
The song’s message is The reason I love t—I don’t want
to know about evil, I only want to know bout lov&’
Exactly I’m with him on that one.
8 MARVINGAYS
MRRCYMSR(YME
This has a great groove The bass line is so smooth and
Marvin Gaye Just seats his views on the world It shows
that a song does not have to be about sex to be sexy.
4. GNARLS BARKLBS ‘SMILEY RAcEs”
This was my favorite track last year It just makes me want
to dance.And I can’t dance for Still, so that says a lot
S. BILL WiTHERS, ‘USIS ME’
The riff’that goes through this song is so dirty. I don’t
even know what its played on. It sounds like a clavichord
with some effects on it Whatever it is, it’s wicked.
Billd
September 9, 2006
Five To Watch
British Debut Artists LikelyTo Feature On The Next Best-Seller Lists
PAOL.O NUTINI
Bilihoerd
Label: Atlantic
Sound: Ranges from upbeat,
summerypcp tunesmith to
smok soulful troubadour.
Reasons to
watch: Huge
support at
U.K. radio,
most notably
AC station
Radio 2, with
its weekly
reach of more
than 13 miflion has already
seen his debut album
“These Streets” certified
gold. Heralded in some
U.K. media quarters as the
“next James Blunt,” Nutini
plays the Austin City Limits
festlval’Sept. 15.
February 3, 2007
PAOLO NUTINI
These Streets
Producpr Ken Nçtp
Atlantic
Release Date: .J,n. 30
He has the riane of i
great opera sinçer md
the looks of a movie star
but it’s his voice that hits
you first, a raw and elegant
yearning much too deeprooted for a 19-year-old
singer/songwriter.
March 12,2007
:ENT RAVES
Pa&” ‘4utII,
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This Scottish-bori’ singersongwriter possesses an
old soul and gritty voice
that belie his young age
(20) and pretty-boy looks.
On the tender ballad Last
Request he even channels
a bit of Ray Charles.
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Chln.AL(3 reen. U.J(
sensaion Nut;ni sings
tISS1 soul tinged pop
songs in a thick Northern
accent, On the bouncy
standout Jenny OWt Be
Hasty, the Scó en falls in
love with an older woman.
hoping to belie hs age with
husky vOC&5 and vintage
guitar hooks CYou said
you’d marry me/If I was
23). Elsewhere on this
remarkable debut, his vocal
bursts conjure Prince cca
Purple Rain (‘Loving
You’), dying tomove
beyond cus fly adult-pop.
Heartfeftballdsflkè Last
Reuesr or “Rewlnd will
invite omparl Sorts to
Jan1es8hJt.biJt Nutinrs
falsetto 6ights are more
soulful and dynamic, less
Starbucks-ready, though
definitely latté4riendly.—SP