“Now here is a new singer and songwriter who should follow in the footsteps of Paolo Nutini and Emeli Sande, and fly the flag for Scotland in the charts. The Inverness troubadour released a great mini-album, Curtain Road, last year and this is one of the highlights. He’s about to go into the studio for what he says is a “new sound” but let’s hope he keeps making tunes like ‘Something I’m Not Telling You’.

He combines duelling acoustic guitars, some lovely humming and lyrics of secret love while singing “I’m not going to run away”.
You’ll be hearing a lot more of James this year”

Rick Fulton – Soundcheck (Daily Record)

Always a confident performer with a natural warmth that soars across the front of a stage, James belts out a song. Not in a negative way, but where the power of a man putting every fibre of his being into the notes sucks you into the song like a magnet.

Margaret Chrystall – Highland News