You+Me — Rose Ave
Γ¬ "They say everything, it happens for a reason / You can be flawed enough but perfect for a person / Someone who will be there for you when you fall apart / Guiding your direction when you're falling through the dark / Oh, that's you and me," P!nk and Green sing in the chorus, with perfect harmonies to accompany the small, quiet moments of the guitar melody.
Born: Alecia Beth Moore, September 8, 1979, Abington Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, United States
Instruments: Vocals guitar piano drums
Birth name: Dallas Green
Also known as: City and Colour
Born: September 29, 1980, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada
Instruments: Vocals, guitar, bass, piano, keyboards, harmonica, banjo, drums, percussion
Location:
Album release: October 14, 2014
Record Label: RCA
Duration: 37:05
Tracks:
01 Capsized 3:36
02 From a Closet in Norway (Oslo Blues) 3:17
03 Gently 3:33
04 Love Gone Wrong 4:22
05 You and Me 3:13
06 Unbeliever 3:41
07 Second Guess 3:27
08 Break the Cycle 4:06
09 Open Door 3:41
10 No Ordinary Love 4:09
℗ 2014 RCA Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
Written by:
Γ¬ Dallas Green / Alecia Moore 1 — 9
Γ¬ Sade Adu / Stuart Matthewman 10
Awards:
Billboard Singles
2014 You And Me Canadian Hot 100 #48
Credits:
Γ¬ Sade Adu Composer
Γ¬ Stevie Blacke Arranger, Strings
Γ¬ Tom Coyne Mastering
Γ¬ Dallas Green Composer, Guitar, Percussion, Producer, Vocals
Γ¬ Elliot Lee Hazel Photography
Γ¬ Jeri Heiden Art Direction, Design
Γ¬ Matt Kelly Organ, Pedal Steel, Piano, Wurlitzer
Γ¬ Stuart Matthewman Composer
Γ¬ Alecia Moore Composer, Percussion, Producer, Unknown Instrument, Vocals
Γ¬ Alex Newport Bass, Mixing
Γ¬ Nick Steinhardt Art Direction, Design
Γ¬ John X. Volaitis Engineer, Mixing
You + Me: Rose Ave review — Pink and Dallas Green’s utterly lovely country duo.
Caroline Sullivan
The Guardian, Thursday 9 October 2014 23.15 BST; Score: ****
Γ¬ Pop singer Pink’s country/folk album — words you probably never expected to read — came about when she found common musical ground with Dallas Green, (frontman of City and Colour, formerly of Canadian hardcore band Alexisonfire).
Γ¬ As You+Me, the pair explore pastoral byways, and it’s a partnership of equals — while Pink often dominates their harmonies due to the featheriness of Green’s voice, she gives him plenty of space.
Γ¬ The album was recorded in eight days, and sounds it: tracks such as Second Guess, which brings to mind Robert Plant & Alison Krauss’s warm alliance, feel like demos, but that’s fine. The sketchier and more organic a track — such as Unbeliever, with its drowsy acoustic guitar and vague musings about being “a thousand miles from nowhere” — the more charming. Their cover of No Ordinary Love, stripped of any adornment but piano, makes Sade’s original sound like Metallica. Pink, credited here under her real name, Alecia Moore, slips in a few scaled–down power ballads, but these are also utterly lovely. — guardian
:: http://www.theguardian.com/
Artist Biography by James Christopher Monger
Γ¬ A country–kissed, indie folk collaboration between singer, songwriter, and actress Alecia Beth Moore, better known by the exclamation point–adorned, rose–tinted stage name P!nk, and Canadian singer/songwriter Dallas Green, who records under the moniker City and Colour, You+Me marries the evocative pastoral northern folk of Fleet Foxes to the soulful, deep south ache of The Civil Wars. Formed in 2014, the duo issued their first single, "You and Me," that September before dropping their RCA–issued debut long–player, Rose Ave., a month later.
Bio:
The Hurry and The Harm
Γ¬ “I just wanted to make an honest record.”
Γ¬ So says Dallas Green, otherwise known as City and Colour. He’s not really talking about confessionals (though that might happen, too) but truthfully incarnated music: organic songwriting, natural process and sincere moments captured in the studio. Captured — not manipulated. For his fourth LP, The Hurry and The Harm, Green not only wanted to present an honest album, but an honest version of himself. To do so, he had to leave some things behind, confront others and let the rest simmer.
Γ¬ Green wasn’t quite prepared to make another album so soon. On tour to support his last album, Little Hell (2011), he couldn’t quite shake the feeling that something was unbalanced, uneasy. “I was being pulled in two different directions,” Green recalls. He was mentally near the end of the road with his former band, Alexisonfire, but couldn’t yet share the news with his fans. “I wanted to be in one place, but I didn’t want to let my friends down.” He started reading poetry — specifically the Kentucky–born author Wendell Berry, and his work “The Peace of Wild Things.” “I come into the peace of wild things, who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief. I come into the presence of still water,” it goes. Those lines made Green “excited about words again,” and comforted him in a time when things didn’t seem too peaceful. The songs came — quickly, even.
Γ¬ It’s no surprise, really. City and Colour’s music is exactly that: peace, in wild things. There’s a calm, dulcet tone to the songs, the melodies crafted to provide restlessness amidst a sonically complex journey that both soothes and rustles. The record’s first leaked track, “Of Space and Time,” showcases Green’s voice as it dangles in his own special kind of falsetto, set to a chugging drumbeat and subtle strum. “I’m roaming through the hills all alone,” he sings. “I’m trying to find my direction home.” Maybe he didn’t know it at the time, but home is City and Colour — it’s not simply a “solo” project from an otherwise accounted–for band member, but is Green, his primary entity, and his honesty.
Γ¬ The Hurry and The Harm is the first City and Colour album recorded outside of Canada — Green took his process this time to Nashville, Tennessee’s Blackbird Studios. “I’ve never gone anywhere else to make a record,” Green recalls. “I think it worked out, and it was a wonderful experience.” He recruited an excellent team of players to round out the songs, including Jack Lawrence on bass (The Raconteurs, The Dead Weather), Bo Koster on keys (My Morning Jacket), Spencer Cullum (Caitlin Rose) on pedal steel and both Matt Chamberlain (Pearl Jam, Fiona Apple) and James Gadson (Bill Withers, BB King) on drums. Green once again found great kinship in producer Alex Newport, who has worked with such varied and dynamic artists as At The Drive–In, Death Cab for Cutie, Bloc Party and The Mars Votla (and more notably with Green on Little Hell).
Γ¬ The resulting album is a journey through a state of mind, exploring everything from Green’s struggles to leave his previous band (“Of Space and Time”) to his distaste for gossip media (“Commentators”). Musically, the artful evolution can be felt in the crushing, sweeping rush of the first single, “Thirst,” with its aggressive vamp and both acid instrumentals and tongue: “after I’m gone / once I finally leave / you will be left alone to the wolves and the thieves.” There is a longing in the words but a certain direction in the songs, such as on “Two Coins” which balances a quiet folkiness with an unexpected guitar solo, searching through the play in his voice and the introspection of the ironically upbeat strums of “Harder Than Stone.” “Lyrically, now that I look back at the record as a whole, there are a lot of songs that deal with me searching for something,” he says. “And I know now that I wrote those songs near the end of Alexisonfire.”
Γ¬ “I don’t have a lot of faith in myself, so it is hard for me to have a lot of faith in something I have created,” Green says. “But I’ve never been happier or prouder about something that I have done.”
Γ¬ Green began recording as City and Colour in 2005, with Sometimes, followed by 2008’s Bring Me Your Love and 2011’s Little Hell and has experienced huge success both on the charts and the road. All three previous studio albums have achieved platinum status in Canada, while Little Hell is also now Gold in Australia. Additionally, Little Hell debuted at #1 on Canada’s Top 200 Chart, #28 in the U.S., #2 in Australia and top 40 in the U.K. Moreover, almost every show in 2011 and 2012 sold out (including the famed Royal Albert Hall, a two night stay at the Roundhouse in London and New York’s Terminal 5). In support of The Hurry and The Harm, City and Colour will once again embark on a wide–ranging set of dates across North American and the world. The tour will feature a brand new touring band including Jack Lawrence (The Raconteurs, Dead Weather) on bass, Dante Schwebel (Hacienda, Dan Auerbach) on guitar, Doug MacGregor (Constantines) on drums and Matt Kelly on pedal steel guitar and keys.
Γ¬ Playing guitar since age eight and crafting songs since his teenage years, Green has always known he wanted to write music and sing: mostly for himself, to find peace and clarity amongst the chaos. He thinks it’s kismet that others happen to like to listen. “At the end of the day, when I write a song, it has to make me happy,” he says. Γ¬ “I have to want to sing it again. And then the hope after that is that somebody else will like it.”
And they do, because it’s the peace of wild things.
Website: http://www.pinkspage.com/us/news
Website: http://www.cityandcolour.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/You-Me-/340979513357
____________________________________________________________
CITY AND COLOUR
Airline Jupiter PRO Guitar — Dallas Green Signature Model
CC030020
€750.00
The Dallas Green Signature model comes in a beautiful honeyburst finish, tortoiseshell pickguard, upgraded trapeze tail and is embellished with body, neck and headstock binding. The guitar is topped off with his logo signature on the headstock.
Airline Jupiter PRO — Dallas Green Signature
— Hollow–body guitar with mahogany top
— Modern tun–o–matic bridge
— One–piece maple set–neck
— Airline Argyle Pickups
— 3–way vintage flipper switch
— 5 controls mounted on a flowing pickguard
— Controls are dual tone volume
— Unique Blender control to pan between the pickups for a wider tonal palette
— Available in right–handed model only.
Ships from Montreal, Canada
TERMS OF SALE
1. Local taxes and duties may be due upon delivery.
2. Delivery time/availability will vary.
____________________________________________________________
Γ¬ "They say everything, it happens for a reason / You can be flawed enough but perfect for a person / Someone who will be there for you when you fall apart / Guiding your direction when you're falling through the dark / Oh, that's you and me," P!nk and Green sing in the chorus, with perfect harmonies to accompany the small, quiet moments of the guitar melody.
Born: Alecia Beth Moore, September 8, 1979, Abington Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, United States
Instruments: Vocals guitar piano drums
Birth name: Dallas Green
Also known as: City and Colour
Born: September 29, 1980, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada
Instruments: Vocals, guitar, bass, piano, keyboards, harmonica, banjo, drums, percussion
Location:
Album release: October 14, 2014
Record Label: RCA
Duration: 37:05
Tracks:
01 Capsized 3:36
02 From a Closet in Norway (Oslo Blues) 3:17
03 Gently 3:33
04 Love Gone Wrong 4:22
05 You and Me 3:13
06 Unbeliever 3:41
07 Second Guess 3:27
08 Break the Cycle 4:06
09 Open Door 3:41
10 No Ordinary Love 4:09
℗ 2014 RCA Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
Written by:
Γ¬ Dallas Green / Alecia Moore 1 — 9
Γ¬ Sade Adu / Stuart Matthewman 10
Awards:
Billboard Singles
2014 You And Me Canadian Hot 100 #48
Credits:
Γ¬ Sade Adu Composer
Γ¬ Stevie Blacke Arranger, Strings
Γ¬ Tom Coyne Mastering
Γ¬ Dallas Green Composer, Guitar, Percussion, Producer, Vocals
Γ¬ Elliot Lee Hazel Photography
Γ¬ Jeri Heiden Art Direction, Design
Γ¬ Matt Kelly Organ, Pedal Steel, Piano, Wurlitzer
Γ¬ Stuart Matthewman Composer
Γ¬ Alecia Moore Composer, Percussion, Producer, Unknown Instrument, Vocals
Γ¬ Alex Newport Bass, Mixing
Γ¬ Nick Steinhardt Art Direction, Design
Γ¬ John X. Volaitis Engineer, Mixing
You + Me: Rose Ave review — Pink and Dallas Green’s utterly lovely country duo.
Caroline Sullivan
The Guardian, Thursday 9 October 2014 23.15 BST; Score: ****
Γ¬ Pop singer Pink’s country/folk album — words you probably never expected to read — came about when she found common musical ground with Dallas Green, (frontman of City and Colour, formerly of Canadian hardcore band Alexisonfire).
Γ¬ As You+Me, the pair explore pastoral byways, and it’s a partnership of equals — while Pink often dominates their harmonies due to the featheriness of Green’s voice, she gives him plenty of space.
Γ¬ The album was recorded in eight days, and sounds it: tracks such as Second Guess, which brings to mind Robert Plant & Alison Krauss’s warm alliance, feel like demos, but that’s fine. The sketchier and more organic a track — such as Unbeliever, with its drowsy acoustic guitar and vague musings about being “a thousand miles from nowhere” — the more charming. Their cover of No Ordinary Love, stripped of any adornment but piano, makes Sade’s original sound like Metallica. Pink, credited here under her real name, Alecia Moore, slips in a few scaled–down power ballads, but these are also utterly lovely. — guardian
:: http://www.theguardian.com/
Artist Biography by James Christopher Monger
Γ¬ A country–kissed, indie folk collaboration between singer, songwriter, and actress Alecia Beth Moore, better known by the exclamation point–adorned, rose–tinted stage name P!nk, and Canadian singer/songwriter Dallas Green, who records under the moniker City and Colour, You+Me marries the evocative pastoral northern folk of Fleet Foxes to the soulful, deep south ache of The Civil Wars. Formed in 2014, the duo issued their first single, "You and Me," that September before dropping their RCA–issued debut long–player, Rose Ave., a month later.
Bio:
The Hurry and The Harm
Γ¬ “I just wanted to make an honest record.”
Γ¬ So says Dallas Green, otherwise known as City and Colour. He’s not really talking about confessionals (though that might happen, too) but truthfully incarnated music: organic songwriting, natural process and sincere moments captured in the studio. Captured — not manipulated. For his fourth LP, The Hurry and The Harm, Green not only wanted to present an honest album, but an honest version of himself. To do so, he had to leave some things behind, confront others and let the rest simmer.
Γ¬ Green wasn’t quite prepared to make another album so soon. On tour to support his last album, Little Hell (2011), he couldn’t quite shake the feeling that something was unbalanced, uneasy. “I was being pulled in two different directions,” Green recalls. He was mentally near the end of the road with his former band, Alexisonfire, but couldn’t yet share the news with his fans. “I wanted to be in one place, but I didn’t want to let my friends down.” He started reading poetry — specifically the Kentucky–born author Wendell Berry, and his work “The Peace of Wild Things.” “I come into the peace of wild things, who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief. I come into the presence of still water,” it goes. Those lines made Green “excited about words again,” and comforted him in a time when things didn’t seem too peaceful. The songs came — quickly, even.
Γ¬ It’s no surprise, really. City and Colour’s music is exactly that: peace, in wild things. There’s a calm, dulcet tone to the songs, the melodies crafted to provide restlessness amidst a sonically complex journey that both soothes and rustles. The record’s first leaked track, “Of Space and Time,” showcases Green’s voice as it dangles in his own special kind of falsetto, set to a chugging drumbeat and subtle strum. “I’m roaming through the hills all alone,” he sings. “I’m trying to find my direction home.” Maybe he didn’t know it at the time, but home is City and Colour — it’s not simply a “solo” project from an otherwise accounted–for band member, but is Green, his primary entity, and his honesty.
Γ¬ The Hurry and The Harm is the first City and Colour album recorded outside of Canada — Green took his process this time to Nashville, Tennessee’s Blackbird Studios. “I’ve never gone anywhere else to make a record,” Green recalls. “I think it worked out, and it was a wonderful experience.” He recruited an excellent team of players to round out the songs, including Jack Lawrence on bass (The Raconteurs, The Dead Weather), Bo Koster on keys (My Morning Jacket), Spencer Cullum (Caitlin Rose) on pedal steel and both Matt Chamberlain (Pearl Jam, Fiona Apple) and James Gadson (Bill Withers, BB King) on drums. Green once again found great kinship in producer Alex Newport, who has worked with such varied and dynamic artists as At The Drive–In, Death Cab for Cutie, Bloc Party and The Mars Votla (and more notably with Green on Little Hell).
Γ¬ The resulting album is a journey through a state of mind, exploring everything from Green’s struggles to leave his previous band (“Of Space and Time”) to his distaste for gossip media (“Commentators”). Musically, the artful evolution can be felt in the crushing, sweeping rush of the first single, “Thirst,” with its aggressive vamp and both acid instrumentals and tongue: “after I’m gone / once I finally leave / you will be left alone to the wolves and the thieves.” There is a longing in the words but a certain direction in the songs, such as on “Two Coins” which balances a quiet folkiness with an unexpected guitar solo, searching through the play in his voice and the introspection of the ironically upbeat strums of “Harder Than Stone.” “Lyrically, now that I look back at the record as a whole, there are a lot of songs that deal with me searching for something,” he says. “And I know now that I wrote those songs near the end of Alexisonfire.”
Γ¬ “I don’t have a lot of faith in myself, so it is hard for me to have a lot of faith in something I have created,” Green says. “But I’ve never been happier or prouder about something that I have done.”
Γ¬ Green began recording as City and Colour in 2005, with Sometimes, followed by 2008’s Bring Me Your Love and 2011’s Little Hell and has experienced huge success both on the charts and the road. All three previous studio albums have achieved platinum status in Canada, while Little Hell is also now Gold in Australia. Additionally, Little Hell debuted at #1 on Canada’s Top 200 Chart, #28 in the U.S., #2 in Australia and top 40 in the U.K. Moreover, almost every show in 2011 and 2012 sold out (including the famed Royal Albert Hall, a two night stay at the Roundhouse in London and New York’s Terminal 5). In support of The Hurry and The Harm, City and Colour will once again embark on a wide–ranging set of dates across North American and the world. The tour will feature a brand new touring band including Jack Lawrence (The Raconteurs, Dead Weather) on bass, Dante Schwebel (Hacienda, Dan Auerbach) on guitar, Doug MacGregor (Constantines) on drums and Matt Kelly on pedal steel guitar and keys.
Γ¬ Playing guitar since age eight and crafting songs since his teenage years, Green has always known he wanted to write music and sing: mostly for himself, to find peace and clarity amongst the chaos. He thinks it’s kismet that others happen to like to listen. “At the end of the day, when I write a song, it has to make me happy,” he says. Γ¬ “I have to want to sing it again. And then the hope after that is that somebody else will like it.”
And they do, because it’s the peace of wild things.
Website: http://www.pinkspage.com/us/news
Website: http://www.cityandcolour.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/You-Me-/340979513357
____________________________________________________________
CITY AND COLOUR
Airline Jupiter PRO Guitar — Dallas Green Signature Model
CC030020
€750.00
The Dallas Green Signature model comes in a beautiful honeyburst finish, tortoiseshell pickguard, upgraded trapeze tail and is embellished with body, neck and headstock binding. The guitar is topped off with his logo signature on the headstock.
Airline Jupiter PRO — Dallas Green Signature
— Hollow–body guitar with mahogany top
— Modern tun–o–matic bridge
— One–piece maple set–neck
— Airline Argyle Pickups
— 3–way vintage flipper switch
— 5 controls mounted on a flowing pickguard
— Controls are dual tone volume
— Unique Blender control to pan between the pickups for a wider tonal palette
— Available in right–handed model only.
Ships from Montreal, Canada
TERMS OF SALE
1. Local taxes and duties may be due upon delivery.
2. Delivery time/availability will vary.
____________________________________________________________