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James Blunt Some ageing rockstar once said that what he feared most, in a musical sense, was the songwriting well running dry. That\\\\\\\'s something that\\\\\\\'s unlikely ever to worry James Blunt. He has, it can be said without exaggeration, lived a life that should provide enough material for a dozen albums, with sufficient left over for a couple of screenplays. Sure - that\\\\\\\'s what all the singer-songwriters say. But this is a definitively different singer-songwriter. Take \\\\\\\"No Bravery\\\\\\\", the song that closes his debut album, \\\\\\\"Back to Bedlam\\\\\\\", for instance: It was written in Kosovo in 1999, while James was a reconnaissance officer in the British army. On patrol around Pristina, he kept his guitar bolted to the outside of his tank. But in quieter moments, it came out, as he wrote about life as a 22-year-old peacekeeper in the aftermath of one of the decade\\\\\\\'s bloodiest civil wars. The rest of his unit ordered him to kee...