Simplicity = freeing yourself from trappings.The most simple things can bring the most happiness.We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do. Let’s do the obvious thing the common thing but let’s do it uncommonly well. We’re thankful that it looks like there is a light at the end of the tunnel in the next couple of months and away we’ll go.”ĭiamonds in the Whiskey Glass is out June 4. That’s been tough and it weighs on a guy like me because they are part of what I do. I always get the question of ‘How does it feel?’ But when you’re a musician and you’re working on the road, it’s a lifestyle that they love and it’s their livelihood. That’s been the biggest downfall of not being able to play: keeping your people busy. “It’s tougher on my staff and my crew and my musicians who have been with me for 10 to 15 years,” he says. He hopes to start playing live again within the next couple of months. Touring, he says, is the best way to promote an album, something he has been doing for a quarter of a century now. “I tell you, I couldn’t be where I am today without her.”īamford admits to some frustration in how COVID derailed his plans to hit the road. “It’s 18 years now,” Bamford says about his wife, to whom the song is dedicated. So that’s interesting.”Īnother highlight is the tender ballad, Marry Me Again, which Bamford also wrote and is apparently receiving a good deal of airplay in Australia at the moment. A few people who have heard the record bring that song up. But it definitely speaks to who I am and what I loved growing up. A song like Hag on the Jukebox isn’t something that radio stations across Canada would necessarily pick up. “It’s interesting that you would say that because country music has gone in so many different directions in the past decade, from traditional to bro-country to pop-country and now back to the traditional sound. Still, he sounds pleased when informed that one of this writer’s favourite tunes on the album is Hag on the Jukebox, a fun-loving, stomping ode to Bamford’s musical heroes such as Merle Haggard, George Jones, Willie Nelson and Waylon Jennings. The wistful first single, Heaven on Dirt, which has been streamed more than a million times, was written by a four-person team of Nashville pros even if it seems perfectly matched to Bamford’s sensibilities and voice. He instead opts for an ego-free “the-best-song-wins” approach. He is a prolific writer, but the song choice on his records do not hinge on him writing them. When it comes to his records, Bamford has always seemed to take a workman-like approach. COVID threw a wrench into the well-oiled machinery that has always steered his career, but he credits his behind-the-scenes team for “zigging and zagging” to power through all the uncertainties. He moved to Lacombe with his mother at the age of five and his music has often celebrated small-town life, even during the years he lived in Nashville. It was a chance for the singer to return to the small clubs he started out in. For his second Canadian tour of that album, Bamford and his band let their hair down and hit the honky-tonk and dive bar circuit where the Australian-born country star first cut his teeth. It’s Bamford’s first release since 2018’s Neon Smoke. Part of the series will be dedicated to performances and discussions of some of the new tracks. There has been no release date for Real Country Livin’, but Bamford’s 10th studio record Diamonds in a Whiskey Glass comes out June 4. He stresses that the series shows that he’s “just the same as anybody else.’ Like a lot of mainstream country acts, Bamford’s songs and career have highlighted his everyman persona. In an interview with Postmedia, the veteran country star sounds a touch sheepish at the prospect of people being curious about his life. A lot of people want to know that sort of thing. But it really is a good look at my life and what I’m all about and I think people can really relate to it. But having those cameras in your house and around you is a little tough at times. Being able to do all this stuff before COVID was good. “We’ve always talked about giving people a look at what Gord Bamford is all about when he’s not on the stage. “It’s really been the missing piece of who I am over the years,” says Bamford. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Manage Print Subscription / Tax Receipt.
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