New Zealand native Jenny Morris entered the world in 1956 and launched her singing career as a member of the Wide-Mouthed Frogs toward the end of the 1970s. She entered the Crocodiles in 1980, relocating with the group to Sydney, Australia, the following year; the band dissolved shortly afterward. Morris issued several solo singles and recorded an album alongside QED, whose three tracks achieved only modest chart results Down Under. She added backing vocals for INXS on the Listen Like Thieves world tour in 1985, then issued her debut solo long-player, Body & Soul, two years later. That release earned platinum certification in Australia after moving more than 70,000 units and spawned multiple hit singles, among them the Neil Finn-penned “You I Know.”
Shiver, her sophomore effort, reinforced Morris’s standing among Australia’s foremost female singer-songwriters by surpassing 250,000 copies sold. By contrast, her third album, Break in the Weather, underperformed commercially, yielding just one charting single while two additional tracks failed to reach the Top 40. The 1992 best-of collection The Story So Far appeared next, yet the remainder of the decade produced scant new material aside from the 1995 album Salvation Jane. The single “Downtime,” aptly named, surfaced in 2002, followed later the same year by the album Hit & Myth. Listen: The Very Best of Jenny Morris arrived in 2004, and the Alive DVD came out the year after. Clear Blue in Stormy Skies emerged twelve months later, presenting acoustic renditions of several of the vocalist’s signature songs.
