in 2004, following success on "wawffactor", duffy recorded a three-song welsh extended play, titled" aimée duffy," while working part-time in two jobs as waitress and in a fishmongers. it later achieved welsh chart success in 2008, charting at number one on the "siart c2" music chart. duffy, now in high demand, appeared on mint royale's "see you in the morning" as a back-up singer. duffy was introduced to jeanette lee of rough trade records in august 2004, after singing richard j. parfitt's "oh boy". lee moved duffy to crouch end in london, orchestrating a meeting between duffy and suede's ex-guitar player bernard butler. lee, with rough trade, would eventually manage duffy. after butler had given duffy a soul music "education" by downloading tracks on to her ipod that she could listen to while around london or travelling back to wales, the pair co-wrote with her and helped create a new retro sound. the music included tracks by al green, bettye swann, ann peebles, doris duke, scott walker, phil spector and burt bacharach. duffy was quoted as saying bettye swann "is one of my biggest inspirations", particularly her song "cover me", because "it marks the time i got interested in physical contact. i was 19, and here was a woman singing 'cover me, spread your precious love all over me.' it's very tender, but it's also, hilariously, quite crude."