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American Sunshine
''American Sunshine'' is the tenth studio album by Scottish-born Australian-based singer Colin Hay, released on 18 August 2009. As with all of Colin Hay's music, ''American Sunshine'' contains largely personal songs; for example, "There's Water Over You" describes Hay's relationship with his parents. Unlike '' Going Somewhere'', the tracks of ''American Sunshine'' are backed by Hay's band. This move away from minimalist, acoustic music is something Colin Hay established with his previous album, ''Man @ Work''. However, Hay performs a great many of these tracks solo at his live appearances. Reception Allmusic called the album "a cheerfully mellow collection of easy rolling folk-pop", summarizing its mood by commenting that Hay "remains infatuated with what happens under the Southern Californian sun, whether it's rhapsodizing over the state itself or cherishing a flirtation with a shop girl, and it's easy to share his affections thanks to his easy, tasteful tunes." Popmatters ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colin Hay
Colin James Hay (born 29 June 1953) is a Scottish-Australian musician. He came to prominence as the lead vocalist and the sole continuous member of the band Men at Work, and later as a solo artist. Hay is a member of the band Ringo Starr & His All-Starr Band. Hay has made appearances in movies such as '' Cosi'' (1996) and in television shows such as '' The Resident'', ''The Larry Sanders Show'', '' JAG'', '' The Mick Molloy Show'', '' A Million Little Things'', and '' Scrubs''. In ''Scrubs'', he performs an acoustic version of the Men at Work hit " Overkill" in the first episode of the second season titled, My Overkill, along with a bit of the acoustic version of " Down Under" during a cutaway of the second episode of the seventh season titled, My Hard Labor. His music also appeared in the television series '' What About Brian'', '' The Black Donnellys'', '' Cane'', and the BBC medical drama '' Casualty''. Early life Colin James Hay was born on 29 June 1953 in Saltcoats, Nor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Country Rock
Country rock is a music genre that fuses rock and country. It was developed by rock musicians who began to record country-flavored records in the late 1960s and early 1970s. These musicians recorded rock records using country themes, vocal styles, and additional instrumentation, most characteristically pedal steel guitars.V. Bogdanov, C. Woodstra and S. T. Erlewine, ''All Music Guide to Rock: The Definitive Guide to Rock, Pop, and Soul'' (Backbeat Books, 3rd ed., 2002), p. 1327. Country rock began with artists like Waylon Jennings, Buffalo Springfield, Michael Nesmith, Bob Dylan, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, the Byrds, the Flying Burrito Brothers, The International Submarine Band and others, reaching its greatest popularity in the 1970s with artists such as Emmylou Harris, the Eagles, New Riders of the Purple Sage, Linda Ronstadt, Little Feat, Poco, Charlie Daniels Band, and Pure Prairie League. Country rock also influenced artists in other genres, including The Band, the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blues Rock
Blues rock is a fusion music genre, genre and form of rock music, rock and blues music that relies on the chords/scales and instrumental improvisation of blues. It is mostly an electric ensemble-style music with instrumentation similar to electric blues and rock (electric guitar, electric bass guitar, drums, and sometimes with keyboards and harmonica). From its beginnings in the early to mid-1960s, blues rock has gone through several stylistic shifts and along the way it inspired and influenced hard rock, Southern rock, and early heavy metal music, heavy metal. Blues rock started with rock musicians in the United Kingdom and the United States performing American blues songs. They typically recreated electric Chicago blues songs, such as those by Willie Dixon, Muddy Waters, and Jimmy Reed, at faster tempos and with a more aggressive sound common to rock. In the UK, the style was popularized by groups such as the Rolling Stones, the Yardbirds, and the Animals, who put several blues ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Compass Records
Compass Records is an American independent record label founded in 1995 by musicians Garry West and Alison Brown that specializes in folk, bluegrass, Celtic, jazz, and acoustic music. In 2006, Compass purchased the Green Linnet and Xenophile catalogs, and in 2008 the label purchased Mulligan Records. Red House Records, an independent folk and Americana record label founded in 1983 in St. Paul, Minnesota, was purchased by the Compass Records Group in 2017. Roster * Altan * Darol Anger * Russ Barenberg * Bearfoot * Beoga * Michael Black * Paul Brady * Dale Ann Bradley * Paul Brock * Paul Carrack * Liz Carroll * Beth Nielsen Chapman * The Chapmans * Jeff Coffin * Éamonn Coyne * A. J. Croce * Catie Curtis * Fairport Convention * Kris Drever * Elizabeth and the Catapult * Farmer Not So John * Mike Farris * Matt Flinner * Rebecca Frazier * Gibson Brothers * Thea Gilmore * Grada * Roddy Hart * Colin Hay * The Infamous Stringdusters * Andy Irvine * Nuala Ken ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Are You Lookin' At Me?
''Are You Lookin' at Me?'' is the ninth studio album by Scottish-Australian musician, Colin Hay. It was released by Compass Records on 24 April 2007. Reception Stephen Erlewine of ''AllMusic'' said of the album, "Released in the spring of 2007, ''Are You Lookin' at Me?'' is his ninth solo album, but there is a difference in his approach on this record. Here, he sounds relaxed, comfortable with his status as a cult singer/songwriter, so he's not trying to have hits or sound hip, he's simply lying back and writing songs that are wry, easy, and quite charming. There are some echoes of mortality that ring throughout this record -- from the title track, which looks back at his childhood, to passing references to death, or even his acknowledgement that he doesn't think there are better days to come on "Land of the Midnight Sun"—but this is hardly a dour, depressive album. It's the opposite: it's warm and witty, tuneful and engaging. Even when he's mining a sad vein, he tempers it wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gathering Mercury
''Gathering Mercury'' is the eleventh studio album by Colin Hay, released on 9 May 2011, on Compass Records. Regarding the album's thematic content, Hay said, "I think it’s about life and loss and the injustice of the way the universe is set up; how we lose people we love." Background and recording The album is partly inspired by the death of Hay's father in 2010. On the album's release, Hay noted, "The loss of my father last year brought an unavoidable emotional contingent to writing and recording. I don’t have a definitive belief in an afterlife, but I do feel like I had his help when I was working on this album, especially alone late at night, in the studio. ..The night my father died, I was in Glasgow on the River Clyde, about twenty streets away from where he was born. There’s some kind of bleak poetry in that, very bleak." ''Gathering Mercury'' was recorded at Hay's home studio, The Washroom. Reception Allmusic's Stephen Thomas Erlewine gave the album a positive r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Going Somewhere
''Going Somewhere'' is the sixth solo album by Scottish–Australian singer Colin Hay, released in 2001. Track listing All songs written by Colin Hay, except where noted. #"Beautiful World" – 4:04 #"Looking for Jack" (Alsop, Hay) – 2:56 #"Going Somewhere" – 2:40 #"Wayfaring Sons" – 3:42 #"Children on Parade" – 3:38 #"My Brilliant Feat" (Hay, Talbot) – 3:26 #"Waiting for My Real Life to Begin" (Hay, Mooney) – 5:46 #"Don't Wait Up" – 4:00 #"Lifeline" (Fischer, Hay) – 4:02 #"Circles Erratica" – 4:05 #"Water Song" – 4:10 #"Maggie" – 4:21 #"I Don't Know Why" – 2:53 An extended version of the album features two bonus tracks: # "Waiting for My Real Life to Begin" (Radio Edit) – 3:40 # " Just Don't Think I'll Ever Get Over You" (Radio Edit) – 4:29 A special Australian tour edition added an acoustic reworking of ''Overkill'' as the first track, in response to Hay's appearance performing the song on the television show ''Scrubs''. The track later reappeared ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Man @ Work
''Man @ Work'' is the eighth studio album by Scottish Australian singer Colin Hay, released by Compass Records in July 2003. A second volume is scheduled for release on 18 July 2025. Overview The album is a career-retrospective for Hay: he is best known as the lead singer for the 1980s Australian pop band Men at Work, and roughly half of the songs on this album are Hay's solo studio renderings of works from the Men at Work catalog, while several others are remixes or re-recordings of material from his solo albums. Some songs are almost identical to the original recordings (e.g. " Be Good Johnny") while others are complete reinterpretations (e.g. acoustic versions of " Down Under" and "Who Can It Be Now?"). The album concludes with a version of "Down Under" recorded with the group Wild Clams. The album was re-released on vinyl in 2014 with different tracklisting replacing several tracks with new ones. Reception AllMusic gave a mostly negative review of the album, saying ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allmusic
AllMusic (previously known as All-Music Guide and AMG) is an American online database, online music database. It catalogs more than three million album entries and 30 million tracks, as well as information on Musical artist, musicians and Musical ensemble, bands. Initiated in 1991, the database was first made available on the Internet in 1994. AllMusic is owned by RhythmOne. History AllMusic was launched as ''All-Music Guide'' by Michael Erlewine, a "compulsive archivist, noted astrologer, Buddhist scholar, and musician". He became interested in using computers for his astrological work in the mid-1970s and founded a software company, Matrix, in 1977. In the early 1990s, as compact discs (CDs) replaced LP record, LPs and cassette (format), cassettes as the dominant format for recorded music, Erlewine purchased what he thought was a CD of early recordings by Little Richard. After buying it, he discovered it was a "flaccid latter-day rehash". Frustrated with the labeling, he res ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Popmatters
''PopMatters'' is an international online magazine of cultural criticism that covers aspects of popular culture. ''PopMatters'' publishes reviews, interviews, and essays on cultural products and expressions in areas such as music, television, films, books, video games, comics, sports Sport is a physical activity or game, often competitive and organized, that maintains or improves physical ability and skills. Sport may provide enjoyment to participants and entertainment to spectators. The number of participants in ..., theater, visual arts, travel, and the Internet. History ''PopMatters'' was founded by Sarah Zupko, who had previously established the cultural studies academic resource site PopCultures. ''PopMatters'' launched in late 1999 as a sister site providing original essays, reviews and criticism of various media products. Over time, the site went from a weekly publication schedule to a five-day-a-week magazine format, expanding into regular review ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
