Place your order at Arts & Crafts and Gord Downie.ĬD and digital release date is Oct. 29 in the following formats: double vinyl, CD and digital download. Introduce Yerself is available for preorder on Friday, Sept. OctoGord Downie's final album is 'Introduce Yerself.' To folks south of the border Canada’s the Tragically Hip might’ve seemed little more than R.E.M. Many of the songs to make the final album are first takes. Drew and Downie recorded over two four-day sessions in January 2016 and February 2017. In the throes of a cancer battle, Gord Downie opted instead to slow. The Broken Social Scene member first collaborated with Downie on the Polaris Prize shortlisted album Secret Path. They say when the end is near, your life flashes before your eyes.
Gordon Downie (known widely as Gord Downie) grew up in a suburb of Kingston, Ontario, where. (2010), And the Conquering Sun with The Sadies (2014), Secret Path (2016), and Introduce Yerself (2017).
What follows is a timeline of the Kingston, Ont.-bred icon's brilliant flourish of final-act accomplishments. Gordon Downie was famous for his far-reaching, complex and enigmatic lyricism, but on Introduce Yerself his lyrics are extremely simple, straightforward, and personal. Released 27 October 2017 on Arts & Crafts (catalog no. And, yet, when he sang on stage, "I'm not gonna stop / I'm just catching my breath," it was hard not to ascribe the protagonist's determination and persistence to Downie himself. Introduce Yerself is the sixth solo album by Canadian singer and songwriter Gord Downie, released posthumously on October 27, 2017, ten days after his death.1 A double album consisting of 23 songs which Downie has described as each being about specific people in his life,2 it was the last solo album Downie completed,3 although his brothers Patrick and Mike subsequently confirmed that. Introduce Yerself, an Album by Gord Downie. When Downie had originally written the poems adapted as songs for the record, he had not yet fallen ill.
Secret Path on stage at Toronto's Roy Thomson Hall. 140g vinyl, gatefold, double LP featuring two pull out posters This is my solo record. In the fall of 2016, suffering from the cancer glioblastoma, he performed Introduce Yerself is the sixth solo album by Canadian singer and songwriter Gord Downie, released posthumously on October 27, 2017, ten days after his death. His swan song was epic – a brilliant, potent and significant curtain call as ever witnessed in Canadian music history, highlighted by his solo album Secret Path, a conceptual album about a First Nations boy who died in 1966. Over the course of the nearly 17 months in between, the singer-lyricist and poet was stunningly prolific, whether releasing music and performing with the Hip or with others. On May 24, 2016, it was announced that Gord Downie of the Tragically Hip had been diagnosed with a terminal brain tumour. Introduce Yerself by Gord Downie, Double Vinyl Album (2 LP).Tracklist:A1 First PersonA2 Wolfs HomeA3 BedtimeA4 Introduce YerselfA5 Coco Chanel (5)A6 Ricky.
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