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New Album Release: Angus Gill −'THE SCRAPBOOK'

27/9/2021

 
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“Angus Gill is easily one of the most talented and hardest working young men in the music business – anywhere!
JERRY SALLEY (Grammy Award Winning Songwriter & Producer)
 
“Gill’s song-craft betrays a precocity that blooms”
THE AUSTRALIAN
 
“Gill cares about the idiosyncrasies, the small things in songwriting that make a big difference in what he brings to the world”
AMERICAN SONGWRITER

Never one to confine himself musically to just one box – ARIA and 3x Golden Guitar nominee, Angus Gill - has shed yet another musical skin with his fourth album, “The Scrapbook”.
The Wauchope wunderkind stretches his musical and songwriting talents even further on the new bluegrass release that boasts a vast array of internationally renowned musicians including Tim Crouch, Randy Kohrs, Clay Hess and Tony Ray. It also features stellar collaborations with Jim Lauderdale, Jerry Salley, Gary Burr, Thomm Jutz, Rivers Rutherford and Charles Esten (from the hit TV series, Nashville).
 
“I’ve always been a big fan of traditional bluegrass music. From a young age, I’ve been drawn to the high and tight harmonies, vocal stylings, phrasing and virtuosic playing. There’s also this beautiful juxtaposition in some bluegrass music when a poignant lyric is set against a rapid tempo and a major chord structure. I just love that!” said Gill.
 
The project came about in late 2020, after the release of the critically acclaimed “3 Minute Movies” featuring Paul Kelly’s band billed as The Seasons of Change. Gill started laying the bed track down for a song "Whittling Away", written with multiple Grammy™ winner & bluegrass icon Jim Lauderdale in 2019. This eventually became the catalyst for a bluegrass record.
 
“Jim and I wrote Whittling Away in 2019 and I liked it then, but after revisiting it in late 2020, the sentiment of the song hit me even harder than it did when we wrote it. I realised it would work as a duet and Jim agreed to do it with me. I was hearing a slow bluegrass production, so decided to take that approach with this song”, says Gill.
 
“I remembered I’d written several bluegrass songs over the years and I also had some straight country songs I’d written, which I realised were better served as bluegrass songs. I’ve always wanted to record a traditional bluegrass album with players that have bluegrass in their blood. I called up Tim Crouch and asked him if he would play and co-produce an album with me and we brought Randy Kohrs, Clay Hess & Tony Way onto the project and recorded it all remotely at the start of 2021. It was pretty cool because it sounds like we were all playing in the same room, despite being over 15,000 kilometres away.”

The album opens with a rollicking homage to hard working women “Always on the Run”, co-written with 2021 Grammy nominee Thomm Jutz. Gill quips, “she’s moving like a bullet that was fired from a gun/she’s always on the run.” The narrative based “Samson” is a master-class in character development while the Jim Lauderdale duet “Whittling Away” highlights the resilience and strength that people are displaying during these trying times. Gill’s signature wit comes to the forefront in the swing-grass romp “Caught Between a Rock and a Heartache”. The challenges of a paternal bond are explored in the heartfelt “Feet of Clay”, co-written with Charles Esten. “Let’s Have a Drink (To Not Drinking Again)” is the ultimate high-spirited bluegrass drinking song, featuring Music Row veteran tunesmith Jerry Salley. Gill sings of his grandmother’s affection in the autobiographical title track “The Scrapbook”. After a near 300-bpm sprint in “Heartquake”, the album closes with the exquisite epitaph “Forget Me Not”. “Our heartstrings will be tied up in a never forget me not” Gill sings a cappella in perfect 4 part harmony.
 
Angus Gill’s new album, “The Scrapbook”, is further proof of this young artist’s ability to shape-shift into any musical form and do it exceptionally well.
 
“The Scrapbook” is out on now on Rivershack Records/MGM Distribution.

TRACK LISTING
  1. Always on the Run (Angus Gill/Thomm Jutz)
  2. Samson (Angus Gill/Bill DiLuigi/Kirsti Manna)
  3. Whittling Away featuring Jim Lauderdale (Angus Gill/Jim Lauderdale)
  4. Caught Between a Rock and a Heartache (Angus Gill/Rivers Rutherford)
  5. Feet of Clay (Angus Gill/Charles Esten)
  6. Let’s Have a Drink (To Not Drinking Again) featuring Jerry Salley (Angus Gill/Jerry Salley/Bill Whyte/Aaron Wilburn)
  7. The Scrapbook (Angus Gill/Bill Whyte)
  8. Put ‘Er There (Angus Gill/Gary Burr)
  9. Still Missing (Angus Gill/Thomm Jutz)
  10. Heartquake (Angus Gill/Thomm Jutz)
  11. Forget Me Not (Angus Gill/Bill DiLuigi/Kirsti Manna)

Produced by Angus Gill & Tim Crouch
Mixed by Angus Gill
Mastered by Jeff McCormack


Jim Lauderdale appears courtesy of Yep Roc Records.
Jerry Salley appears courtesy of Very Jerry Records.
Angus Gill – vocals, acoustic guitar, dobro, background vocals.
Tim Crouch – fiddle, mandolin, banjo, double bass, acoustic guitar and percussion.
Randy Kohrs – dobro and background vocals.
Tony Wray – banjo and acoustic guitar (track 10)
Clay Hess – banjo and acoustic guitar (track 1)
Thomm Jutz – background vocals (track 1 & 9)
Gary Burr – background vocals (track 8)
Georgia Middleman – background vocals (track 8)

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