“Keep With Me”
Sam Smith is a Grammy and Oscar-winning singer and songwriter from London, England. Their first album, In the Lonely Hour, got here out in 2014. It went quintuple platinum within the US, and the most important hit from that album is the music “Stay With Me,” which has over 2 billion streams on Spotify alone. For this episode, in honor of the music’s tenth anniversary, I talked to Sam about how “Keep With Me” was made. I additionally talked to Sam’s frequent collaborator, Jimmy Napes, who is an award-winning producer and songwriter as well. The 2 of them inform the story of how the music started, and the way it became the hit that it grew to become. After which, years later, the way it modified once more.
You should buy or stream “Keep With Me” here.
Illustration by Carlos Lerma.
For a transcript of this episode, click here.
Tourist – co-writer, piano, organ
Earl Harvin – drums, percussion
Simon Hale – strings arranger, conductor
Jodi Milliner – bass
Elvin Smith
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