"I remember playing for 60,000 people thinking, 'You only know me for 10 songs,'" she said recently. "I want to show you that there's more. I want to earn that kind of celebration." She's hoping to do that with "Endlessly." Her sophomore album (a new term for Duffy that she delightfully pronounces "soft-more") is a bit more upbeat than her debut, "Rockferry," and features collaborations with Al Hammond Sr. and ?uestlove from The Roots.
"I'm bringing more aspects of myself to this record," she said. "I'm a catalog artist now! ... It kind of feels surreal." "It would be easy for someone to rest on their laurels. ...But for me, I wanted to keep testing myself, to (keep) challenging myself, and actually it happened quite accidentally that I ended up working with other people." Duffy's new album "Endlessly," due out tomorrow, has a sound that's even more self-consciously vintage than her debut album, the 2008 release "Rockferry."
For this new album, she signed up as a co-producer Albert Hammond Sr., the man behind such oldie hits as "The Air That I Breathe" (1974) and "When I Need You" (1976).
