COLIN HAY (Solo) – Tickets – THE LINCOLN THEATRE – WASHINGTON,
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HAY (Solo) Sat, April 4, 2020 Doors: 6:30 pm / Show: 6:30 pm THE
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MERCY is an epic, cinematic step forward from singer-songwriter COLIN
HAY, most beloved for his intimate, confessional live shows but most
widely known for being an influential and celebrated frontman. The
range of artists who have chosen to cite him as a muse or who have
found themselves on stage with him in the past year spans the genre
landscape from heavy metal, to Americana, to Cuban rhythms and beyond.
His inclusion as a playlist favorite from the likes of Metallica to
The Lumineers reflects his continuing relevance and broad appeal.
Recorded in both Los Angeles and Nashville and mixed by Vance Powell
(Chris Stapleton, Jack White) and Gordon Hammond (Buddy Miller, Don
Williams), FIERCE MERCY explores themes of love and loss, mortality,
and even the odd UFO sighting, but always with the singular
perspective and insightful wit that define Hay’s work. He has
created a new classic in his impressive repertoire (this is his 13th
solo release), using a palette of pop songcraft, Americana flourishes,
and soundtrack-ready strings. FIERCE MERCY is animated by its pensive,
honest, and impassioned lyrics, and, Hay adds, by a sense of urgency
felt deeply in the song “The Last to Know,” which introduces the
album’s title concept of “fierce mercy.” “When you’re in
your 20s, you think you’ve got all the time in the world,” Hay
said. “You get older, and you go through a quickening. Everything
seems to get faster. Using his gift for expressing struggle in a way
that resonates with a wide variety of people, he compares this to the
messages mankind is getting on a global level: “With the changing
weather patterns, or the polar ice caps melting, we’re getting all
of these warnings, and a lot of them are incredibly fierce. But they
still feel somewhat merciful — they’re not destroying us totally.
We’re all being told, ‘Listen, you can still maybe address this,
and it won’t get to the point where I have to take you all out.
You’ve still got a shot.’” Ten of the album’s 13 stellar
compositions were collaborations with Michael Georgiades, who
contributed to Hay’s previous sets Next Year People (2015) Gathering
Mercury (2011) and American Sunshine (2009). The pair co-wrote two of
the album’s clear stand-outs, the pop vocal ballad “A Thousand
Million Reasons” and the Americana leaning “Come Tumblin’
Down.” "Michael Georgiades is my secret weapon but I guess now with
this album it’s not a secret anymore,” Hay jokes. Some of the
songs are deeply personal: “She Was the Love of Mine,” is an elegy
for the singer’s mother, who died three years ago. Some are
novelistic: “Frozen Fields of Snow” recounts the story of a war
veteran returning to his childhood home after outliving the other
members of his unhappy family. “Sometimes lyrical ideas will come
into your head, so you follow them and see where they go,” Hay says.
Largely recorded in Topanga with Hay’s wife, Cecilia Noël and
Hay’s regular accompanists — bassist Yosmel Montejo, drummer
Charlie Paxson, keyboardists Fred Kron and Jeff Babko, and
guitarist/tres player San Miguel Perez— FIERCE MERCY was completed
in sessions at Compass Sound Studio in Nashville with Compass Records
principal Garry West at the helm, who also contributed bass on a few
cuts. Hay says, “Garry is always trying to get me to Nashville to do
some recording, to get me out of the comfort zone of my own studio —
get me out of my lair! So I went to Nashville and we recorded the
strings with a nine-piece section, and he introduced me to some
players that he loves, who added another fantastic layer to the
album.” The Nashville players include guitarists Audley Freed
(Sheryl Crow, the Black Crowes, the Dixie Chicks) and Doug Lancio
(John Hiatt), pedal steel guitarist and organist Jim Hoke (Iris
Dement, Don Henley, Darius Rucker) and Compass co-founder Alison Brown
(banjo). hough many music fans will be glad to see the end of 2016, it
was something of a breakout year for this career artist that included
a three-week run at the Edinburgh Fringe; performances on The Tonight
Show With Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel Live! and ABC’s Greatest Hits;
sharing the stage with Of Monsters and Men, Milk Carton Kids, Choir
Choir Choir!, Kings of Leon; being publicly cited as an influence by
artists as distinct as James Hetfield of Metallica, Jeremiah Fraites
of The Lumineers, Troy Sanders of Mastodon, and The Infamous
Stringdusters; as well as the completion of a documentary film about
his career entitled Waiting for My Real Life, named for one of his
best known solo recordings. Now finding himself in the unprecedented
place of having both ’80s fame and indie credibility, it's possible
that Hay has delivered the defining album of his solo career. Venue
Information: THE LINCOLN THEATRE 1215 U Street NW WASHINGTON, DC,
20009 http://www.thelincolndc.com/ [http://www.thelincolndc.com/]
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