WE GET BY

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If it goes the way it can, it’ll be a gig for the ages. I’ve just played to 26,000 people at Liverpool Pier Head, but that show could be the biggest sense of community I’ve ever felt. It could be a night where 40,000 people feel like we’re making a change in the world, that we’re on the cusp of something special. That’s what I want. Well, that and for everyone to have a boss time singing and dancing.” Does it feel extra special that you’ve got this far with little support from the mainstream? A former electrician who initially sang cover versions in local pubs in Liverpool city centre. [1] [2] In October 2020, his debut album We Get By, released on Modern Sky UK, reached a peak of number 6 on the UK Albums Chart, [3] and he became the inaugural number-one artist in the newly formed UK Official Folk Album Charts, ahead of Laura Marling, Kate Rusby, and Levellers. Also in October 2020, Boss, a live album of Webster singing football songs, charted in the folk chart top 10. [4] [5] Recorded at the renowned Parr Street Studios, ‘We Get By’ is Jamie Webster’s long-awaited, supercharged debut full-length. New artists often stumble after a successful debut album but Jamie Webster is going from strength to strength. If your looking for a change from grim ballads, seemingly empty love songs and vocals that one might say are whiny, he’s the guy to listen to. Jamie’s chirpy personality pervades throughout; it will cheer you through the winter months.

While we all may be inside hiding from the heat, Jamie Webster’s new album We Get By is sure to immediately transport you to a festival field that 2020 has harshly ripped from beneath our feet… Jamie Webster is recalling the moment he became the first artist to top the newly created Official Folk Album Chart with his debut LP, We Get By. “I was stunned”, says the Liverpool musician. “To hold off Laura Marling? She’s miles ahead of me in her career. I bet most people in the chart looked at it and went: ‘Who is Jamie Webster?’” a b "we get by | full Official Chart History | Official Charts Company". officialcharts.com . Retrieved 23 July 2021.After the success ofJamie Webster’s debut album, We Get By, which landed a UK Official Albums Chart Top Ten berth, he releases his follow-up, Moments. One which will be destined for similar success, Moments is an exuberant listen from beginning to end. The next song and a personal favourite of mine is Living for Yesterday which is already one of Webster’s singles. It has an acoustic start with a slow tempo which takes a complete turn when an unsuspecting tempo change hits the listener taking away a sense of predictability that might be expected from this genre of music. With a chorus that is almost certainly going to be heard ringing around stadiums in the future, this catchy single ends perfectly by returning to the acoustic melodies heard at the beginning. I’m proud I’ve done this myself, that I’ve not had anyone in the industry do it for me. I’m confident I’d clean up if I did. Our would-be everyman’s also astute enough to understand that the whole thing is rigged against the common man, beginning a song cycle with the words of Living For Yesterday’s man-trap of avaricious consumerism, before offering the hedonism of Weekend In Paradise as the escape route from downpours, debt and drudgery.

Man of the matches ... Jamie Webster at a Liverpool fans meet and greet event in Boston last year. Photograph: John Powell/Liverpool FC/Getty Images

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Curran, Shaun (29 October 2020). " 'Who is Jamie Webster?': the Liverpool hero who topped the first folk chart | Folk music". The Guardian . Retrieved 23 July 2021.

You mentioned ‘Lovers In The Supermarket’. Did anyone in particular inspire the old lovers you sing about in that song?Me and my fiancée, Rachel, have a thing about old couples when we’re out. We go: ‘That’ll be us when we’re older.’ Just when I was struggling for lyrics for that song, Rachel texted me a photo of a couple sharing a basket in Tesco. Jamie Webster secures No.1 in inaugural Official Folk Albums Chart | Talent". Music Week . Retrieved 23 July 2021. Billy Bragg invites Yard Act, Jame Webster to Glastonbury's Left Field Stage | Live4ever Media". 3 May 2022 . Retrieved 3 May 2022.

Webster’s powerful vocals and lively songs with top quality arrangements are a breath of fresh air to the current crop of potential chart success searchers. Jamie’s upbeat and vibrant album blends political and social concerns in his lyrics and crafted highly-listenable tunes.

How Jamie Webster went from singing with thousands of Liverpool fans, to singing in front of them". The Guide Liverpool. 13 February 2020 . Retrieved 23 July 2021.