“In the Sun” by Joseph Arthur

"In the Sun" appears on Come to Where I'm From, Joseph Arthur's second studio album, released in 2000, but the song was older than the record: he'd been playing it at his shows as early as 1996. Arthur wrote the words and music himself and produced it with T-Bone Burnett and Rick Will, who also engineered, while Tchad Blake mixed and Kevin Dean and Nick Raskulinecz assisted at the board.

It became the album's second single, issued in the UK and Europe by Real World and Virgin in April 2001, and Anton Corbijn directed the video, which later landed on the Directors Label DVD The Work of Director Anton Corbijn. Arthur kept it close for years: in February 2008 he and his band the Lonely Astronauts played it on the Late Show with David Letterman.

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