About Apple Music Home Session: Rag'n'Bone Man

Very little about this Apple Music Home Session sounds how you might expect. While recording new versions of “Alone” and “Crossfire” from his second album Life by Misadventure, plus a cover of Bangor singer-songwriter Foy Vance’s “She Burns,” Rag’n’Bone Man and his band took the chance to experiment. “When we record live, we like to explore different arrangements and tempos to give every performance its own thing,” the Sussex singer-songwriter tells Apple Music. “In front of a live audience, it is kind of important that you keep some of the original arrangement—so they can recognize it from the album—but in this scenario it feels totally free. It’s almost like producing the song all over again. Covering Foy Vance is a great honor—he’s one of the reasons I started writing myself.” That intrepid spirit is one that Rags—born Rory Graham—indulged while making Life by Misadventure, traveling to Nashville to absorb lessons from various local songwriters while emboldening his sound with new elements of rock, New Wave, funk, folk, and jazz. “I’ve become a stronger songwriter,” he says. “This album process made me scrutinize my work more and write about things that might have been off-limits beforehand. It’s all about learning from the people you work with.”