Will anyone recognise this description of a video and song?

[rosegoldwatcher]

I think that this song was within the last 15 years. I remember it on a Youtube video.
The singer is a white man in his 20s(?)
The song is about a young man revisiting his home - a place of abuse for him(?) and his mother(?) at the hands of a (step)father.

The video was of the singer outside the rustic home.

I have searched Google and can find nothing. Driving myself crazy!
Are there any musical savants out there in MN land?

Can you remember what style of music it was?

It was contemporary country is my best description.

If Mumsnet can't help, there's a subreddit where you might get an answer.

www.reddit.com/r/tipofmytongue

Vague notions that he may have been called James have got me nowhere!

Thank you both for posting.

I don’t think people watch videoclips nowadays. The good old days of MTV are long gone. I don’t even know what certain singers look like. Seriously.

Nickelback did something quite similar... wouldn’t describe them as country tho! Too Bad is the one I’m thinking of, total long shot mind!

@OnceUponAMidnightBeery - I know Nickelback - definitely not those geezers.
Was absolutely a soloist.

I do wish Youtube had a 'history of things I have listened to' feature!

Something by James Morisson?

@Hobbes8 - no not him - an American singer. Probably not called James at all! (That was a reach.)

I was thinking James Morrison.

YouTube does have a history feature, if you were watching it signed in. I've used it to trawl back for a song I'd forgotten the name of.

Sorry all - I should have included 'American' in my OP.

It was a sublime song.

Jack Jones?

Jack Johnson, not Jones

Not Jack Johnson, sadly.

@cosmopolitanpleasecos - Oh how I wish that I had used 'sign in' back then...

Didn’t think so! 😁

Can you describe the video?

Sorry, as in was he an adult when he went back or flashbacks to his childhood? Etc!

I thought small-town boy by the communards, Jimmy Summer ville, but defiantly not American or country music.

From what I remember - the singer walked around the property while he sang. I can't remember any scenes portraying the abuse; the words conveyed the meaning IYSWIM.

The house was a shambolic wood framed structure.

Jeez - if only I had a line of lyric!
You are all so patient!

Was it

I know she's not male but isn't Pink Family Portrait is it?

Not Pink.
Not Billy Currington - way less traditional country than that. More Indie.

Following as curiosity has been peaked!

I thought it might have been Mick Hucknell from Simply Red and Holding Back The Years but that's not within the last 15 years.