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Greg Ball - Spoiled Sunday
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||| Artist Name_____> Greg Ball |||
||| Album Name______> Spoiled Sunday |||
||| Label___________> Ching Music |||
||| Genre___________> Rock |||
||| URL_____________> http://gregball.ca |||
||| Release Date____> 2018-06-02 |||
||| Street Date_____> 2018-05-11 |||
||| Size____________> 209.08mb ||
|| Playtime________> 34:10 ||
|| Encoder_________> FLAC 1.3.1 ||
|| Quality_________> 818 kbps / 44.1khz / 2 channels ||
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| 1 Cutthroat Country 4:27 |
| 2 Fly Straight 2:46 |
| 3 Congrats 3:50 |
| 4 Spoiled Sunday 3:32 |
| 5 Nuclear Family 2:29 |
| 6 Cocaine Friendly 4:20 |
| 7 Scared to Fail 3:23 |
| 8 Stuck Around 2:49 |
| 9 Somewhere Between 2:30 |
| 10 Demon Seed 4:04 |
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| -----------------=--= N O T E S =-=------------------- |
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| Whether it's from behind the bar, from on the stage, or just |
| walking the streets of his adopted hometown of Kingston Ontario, |
| Greg Ball is a keen, honest, and often an acerbic observer of the |
| fascinating character traits of the people around him. |
| |
| For more than 20 years he has used his songwriting as a way to |
| interpret and process these observations, as well as his own |
| frustrations and curiosities. With much help from his tight-knit |
| group of talented bandmates, Ball has composed his most revelatory |
| and most sonically diverse album yet, (his 4th album) "Spoiled |
| Sunday', due for release on May 11th on the Ching Music and |
| Cadence Music labels. |
| |
| "There are songs about family, songs about violence + drug abuse - |
| lots of things from the past and present. Every song I write is a |
| personal thing, they're not really made up at all. Some of the |
| songs on this album are about characters around town that I |
| interact with on a fairly regular basis,' says Ball. |
| |
| "Overall I hope and think that this represents an evolution not |
| only of me as a songwriter but of the band as a whole. Even though |
| it's called Greg Ball and I write the lyrics, this is a very |
| collaborative situation - they come up with their own parts and |
| make suggestions, and we work hard together on the songs. It's a |
| band thing and a very open process, based on our music and |
| friendship.' |
| |
| Guitarist Joe Carscallen (Handsome Joe) weaves his six-string |
| magic in cahoots with Ball's guitar throughout the album, at times |
| with hard-driving intensity (+ flashy solos!!) and at other times |
| with great subtlety. Drummer Rob Radford, a gifted drummer who's |
| well-known in Kingston, and bass-player extraordinaire Rob Gillet |
| are a uniquely talented, rock-solid rhythm section, who serve the |
| songs admirably, and at appropriate times add a lot of melody and |
| syncopation. |
| |
| Recorded at TheTragically Hip's Bathouse Studio, producer (and Hip |
| member) Paul Langlois and engineer Nyles Spencer were able to |
| capture a tight, great-sounding band who were enjoying playing |
| their new songs together. |
| |
| Says Langlois: "My favourite thing about working with Greg and the |
| boys is that they all have a great sense of arrangement and can |
| easily adapt if we change little musical things. We didn't have to |
| change much, but whenever we did, it went quickly. We'd just |
| discuss it after a few takes and if something might improve a |
| verse or chorus, or we wanted to lose or add some musical part, |
| they'd just go back into the player's room and nail it. They're |
| that good.' |
| |
| "With each record I've done with them, they've been very |
| well-rehearsed coming in, which is obviously a handy thing when |
| you're trying to get great takes. I also really like Greg's |
| singing and lyrics, and that makes it fun for me to record them. |
| He's also a great back-up singer, as are the 2 Rob's, so there's a |
| lot of that action as well.' (Langlois sings back-ups on Cocaine |
| Friendly and Scared to Fail). |
| |
| Ball explains: "Paul is so good at trimming the fat. There were |
| songs that we had been playing for eight months and we had it a |
| certain way, but once Paul got hold of it, it almost totally |
| changed û for the better. The essence and the vibe is still there, |
| but he is so good at getting to the nub of an idea. He is a very |
| kind individual and approaches it in a very nice way, but at the |
| end of the day, he's the producer and he knows how to get the best |
| sound, the best songs out of us. We've definitely learned to trust |
| him.' |
| |
| Music is how Ball, as the primary songwriting instigator of the |
| band, processes the sometimes conflicting emotions one encounters |
| in life and is his way to blow off steam in a more or less healthy |
| and productive manner. |
| |
| "It's 100 per cent the way I deal with stuff. If this was our last |
| record and I never recorded again, I would still be writing songs. |
| Music is kind of my safety valve. There's one tune on this record, |
| Cocaine Friendly and it's about a guy who came into the bar I work |
| in and just totally want to grab me and get into a fight. At the |
| end of the night, the fight didn't happen but I looked at the |
| situation from both sides and wrote a tune about it. And I was |
| angry and it's that sort of emotion that I take home at the end of |
| the night and it has to come out in a song the next day,' he said. |
| |
| This is further exemplified on the song Congrats. |
| |
| "It's about some people in this town and something that happened |
| to me, but I can't really mention names because they're all local. |
| It was a situation where a promoter said I can do one thing, if |
| you do this other thing for me. But then I didn't get to do the |
| first thing after doing the second thing. It's the concept of |
| someone dangling a carrot in front of you and then yanking it |
| away. It's a song of betrayal, I guess, but of a real petty kind |
| of betrayal. It's me lashing out at them. I was so mad at that |
| person that I just had to get it off my chest,' Ball explained. |
| |
| "It's really blunt, sharp song, but it's also a really good song |
| musically and does a great job of showcasing everybody in the |
| band,' Carscallen added. |
| |
| Ball was born and raised in the picturesque southwestern Ontario |
| community of St. Marys, near London. At summer camp as a teen, he |
| experienced one of those ælife changing' moments that many |
| adolescents endure, but it's one that has made his life richer. |
| |
| "It was when a camp counsellor stole the heart of one girl away |
| from me. We were about to make out and he brought out a guitar and |
| sang a song around a camp fire and she fell in love with him. He |
| was counsellor so nothing happened, but it totally turned her off |
| me. I witnessed first-hand the power that music could have. I was |
| like, holy crap; I need to get a guitar. I asked my mom for a |
| guitar and my folks have always been totally supportive so I got a |
| guitar and a chord chart and started plugging away.' |
| |
| After playing around the southwestern Ontario region for a while, |
| he moved to Vancouver to follow his musical dreams, before |
| eventually finding his way to Kingston in the early 2000s, where |
| he has become an integral part of the vibrant local music scene. |
| Early in his tenure in the Limestone City, he came into the orbit |
| of Langlois who was in the process of setting up his indie label, |
| Ching Music, and who saw promise in the scruffy newcomer and his |
| unique creative take on the world. |
| |
| Ball and Langlois have developed both a musical and personal |
| friendship over the last few years - Langlois has produced (and |
| sung on) Ball's last 3 albums and Ball sang back-ups on 2 songs on |
| Langlois' 2nd solo effort, Not Guilty (Common Ground and Not |
| Guilty). |
| |
| They also play regularly in a side project of theirs with 2 other |
| musical friends (Jim Tidman +Joe Carscallen) in The Campfire |
| Liar's Club, an acoustic songwriter's circle type-thing. |
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