Jamie Cullum - Shape Of You (Ed Sheeran) Song Society No.9

“Learnt“, performed and recorded in 1 hour. Notes on Shape of You - I would say that this version of this song is more like a ’riff’ on the original. We decided right at the last minute to do this song and none of us knew it very well even in the back of our minds. It was number 1 on Spotify so we thought we would try it. I’ve know about Ed for a long time, a mega talent who has worked with my brother Ben in the past. I remember hearing some of his demos before he became so big and thinking that he clearly loved the blues. At one of his early performance I saw him sing a version of ’Wayfaring Stranger’ - a traditional gospel song and it always stuck with me. I thought I’d treat this song a little bit like that in tribute. The rectangle in the middle is the live take, all the others around that one are us figuring the tune out and a good arrangement for it in the hour we had to do it. And that’s our dog Jojo, a former street dog from Greece, just being a dog