Songs I Wrote with Amy
extended play by Ed Sheeran
Songs I Wrote with Amy is an extended play, independently released by Ed Sheeran on 18 April 2010. All of the songs were written collaboratively by Ed Sheeran and Amy Wadge. The EP is a folk album of what journalist David Nolan described as "polite, discreet adult offerings aimed at a grown-up audience," with "world-weary songs of mornings after, indecision and regret."
Background and release
Songs I Wrote with Amy is the third of a series of five EPs in different genres that Ed Sheeran released independently in quick succession from 2009 to 2010. The previous EP, 2010's Loose Change, sold enough copies for Sheeran to afford to record a follow-up two months later.
A few years prior, Sheeran's management company had introduced Sheeran to English singer-songwriter Amy Wadge. He traveled to Wales, where she lived, and the two wrote seven songs in two days in Wadge's shed. These included "She," about which Wadge commented to BBC Wales: "He was 17 when he came up with [the lyrics]. I knew right then he was incredibly special."
The two songwriters kept in touch and continued to write together, and Sheeran wanted her to sing backing vocals on an EP of five of their collaborations. However, Wadge was pregnant at the time with her second child and could not travel to Sticky Studios to record their songs. Instead, Sheeran brought in folk singer-songwriter Leddra Chapman to record backing vocals in her place.
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