Harder Than Easy is singer-songwriter Jack Savoretti

Jack Savoretti

Jack Savoretti is an Italian English solo acoustic singer who didn’t pick up a guitar until he was 16. He was brought up in London before moving to Lugano, a Swiss town near the Italian border...

's second studio album

Studio album

A studio album is an album made up of tracks recorded in the controlled environment of a recording studio. A studio album contains newly written and recorded or previously unreleased or remixed material, distinguishing itself from a compilation or reissue album of previously recorded material, or...

, due for release on 15 September 2009 in the USA as a download only album by De Angelis Records.

Recording

Recorded in Los Angeles at the legendary Jackson Browne's studio with members of Tom Waits

Tom Waits

Thomas Alan "Tom" Waits is an American singer-songwriter, composer, and actor. Waits has a distinctive voice, described by critic Daniel Durchholz as sounding "like it was soaked in a vat of bourbon, left hanging in the smokehouse for a few months, and then taken outside and run over with a car."...

 band (Larry Taylor

Larry Taylor

Larry Taylor is an American bass guitarist, best known for his work as a member of Canned Heat from 1967. Before joining Canned Heat he had been a session bassist for The Monkees and Jerry Lee Lewis...

 & Steve Hodges), The Counting Crows (Charlie Gillingham

Charlie Gillingham

Charlie Gillingham is best known for his performance on the Hammond B-3 organ, accordion, piano, and keyboards for the band Counting Crows...

 and David Immergluck

David Immerglück

David Immerglück is an American multi-instrumentalist who is best known as a guitarist in the alternative rock bands Counting Crows, Camper Van Beethoven and the Monks of Doom...

) and The Suppliers (James Morrison’s band). It was mixed by the Grammy award-winning Jack Joseph Puig

Jack Joseph Puig

Jack Joseph Puig is a Grammy Award-winning music engineer and producer with a long track record of successful productions, including the mid-1990s production of Tonic. Puig also worked with Hole, Jellyfish, The Black Crowes, John Mayer, Weezer, Fiona Apple, Green Day, The Counting Crows, No Doubt,...

(U2, Snow Patrol, John Mayer, Klaxons). The album, Harder Than Easy, was recorded over the space of seven days.

Track listing

1. "Map of the World"
2. "Wonder"
3. "Northern Sky"
4. "Lost America"
5. "Mother"
6. "Songs from Different Times"
7. "Russian Roulette"
8. "Breaking News"
9. "Harder Than Easy"
10. "Patriot"