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The trauma of his blind parents divorce was so intense that William Fitzsimmons wrote and recorded his last album, Goodnight, about it. The harrowing result precipitated the break up of his own marriage which is the focus of the latest album The Sparrow and the Crow.

The Sparrow and the Crow is a delicate, sparse, sombre and personal collection of songs, the titles  – I Don’t Feel It Anymore (Song Of The Sparrow), We Feel Alone, If You Would Come Back Home, Please Forgive Me (Song Of The Crow), Further From You, Just Not Each Other, You Still Hurt Me – leave no doubt as to how he was feeling when he wrote the songs. “I felt like going for poeticism for its own sake would have been a waste of time,” he says.

The Sparrow and the Crow was recorded mostly with friends – Priscilla Ahn and Caitlin Crosby – and a few musicians brought in by the producer. “We recorded it piecemeal and wanted to keep it small,” William says. “It was meant to be quiet and sombre.”

On it’s US release iTunes called it “the best singer songwriter album of 2008″, prompting the record to reach the top of the iTunes folk charts upon its release.

The beautiful new album The Sparrow and the Crow by William Fitzsimmons is released on November 2nd, here is a video of the haunting new single If You Would Come Back Home.

If you have not heard Fitzsimmons name before you may well have heard his music, through the US TV shows, Greys Anatomy and General Hospital.

William Fitzsimmons will be performing live at the Bush Hall in Shepherds Bush, London on November 12th, tickets available from ticketweb.