ARTiST: Driveway
ALBUM: Traveling Light
BiTRATE: 183kbps avg
QUALiTY: EAC Secure Mode / LAME 3.97 Final / -V2 --vbr-new / 44.100Khz
LABEL: Curve Music
GENRE: Rock
SiZE: 65.88 megs
PLAYTiME: 0h 47min 47sec total
RiP DATE: 2008-11-28
STORE DATE: 2008-11-28
Track List:
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01. Looks And Money 3:38
02. Peace Love 3:59
03. Sweet Lorraine 3:07
04. Virginia 3:52
05. Since You've Been Gone 3:44
06. Hollywood 3:44
07. Wasted Time 3:50
08. Collapsing 3:50
09. California 3:43
10. Baby's Revolution 3:32
11. Higher Ground 4:07
12. I Feel Alright 3:28
13. Fades To Black 3:13
Release Notes:
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Driveway is a new group from Toronto made up of ex-MAdE frontman Jason Taylor,
ex-MAdE bass player Chris Sytnyk, drummer Robin Mason (Superhalo, Statistics),
and Corey Matheson (Haggis) on banjo, pedal steel and guitar. These seasoned
musicians have combined their influences that include Whiskeytown, The Jayhawks,
Lucinda Williams, Coldplay, The Rolling Stones, Pixies, and Sonic Youth to form
this ærock bandÆ.
ôSome people are trying to call us alt-country, but thatÆs æcause they are
looking for an easy description. They hear a pedal steel and automatically
assume æcountryÆ. Alt-country is a buzz word right now and the problem with buzz
words is: one, they are hard to shake and two, they fall out of fashion. WeÆre
just a rock band.ö says singer/songwriter, Jason Taylor of DrivewayÆs sound.
DrivewayÆs self-titled debut was recorded independently and released by Curve
Music. ôWe wanted to with small labels because we want to start out
organically,ö says Taylor, ôIÆd like the band to find and define itself.ö On
their debut CD Taylor is the main songwriter; however the band is free to add
whatever they feel. ôIÆll write a song and hash it out a little bit at home,
just to get the overall structure of the song, then I bring it in and everyone
puts their own thing on it,ö says Taylor, ôlet the song after it has been
æsort-of-writtenÆ end up Drivewayified. The guys add all the magicö
Driveway was lucky enough to get U.S. producer Keith Cleversley (The Flaming
Lips, Urge Overkill and Spiritualized) to agree to produce some of the songs on
the album. Taylor and Sytnyk established their relationship with Cleversley on
the last MAdE album. Cleversley produced MAdEÆs Television Heart album. ôKeith
has almost no æamazingÆ gear, but he can pull off amazing recordings in spite of
this,ö explains Taylor, ôkind of like the guy who can whittle MichelangeloÆs
æDavidÆ out of a tree stump using only a jack-knife.ö The rest of the album was
produced and mixed by TorontoÆs Lurch. Mason said ôthe whole recording
experience of the making of our record will stay with me for a long time, it was
amazing.ö
The guys in Driveway all have many years of recording and touring experience.
Universal Music Canada and MCA in the U.S. released MAdEÆs first album,
Bedazzler and Universal Canada distributed their second, Television Heart. The
group broke up after the Universal/Polygram merger took place in 1999 after the
albums received critical raves, but failed to sell well. Taylor said, ôAfter
that I just wanted to get back to basics, back to my roots and just make music.
Driveway was formed in 2002. ôI was writing for a couple of years, I remembered
Robin from the old days and Chris was the bass player for MAdE, we put this
project together and it was just the three of us for a while.ö The group put an
ad in the back of a local magazine looking for a guitar player. ôWe only got
one call and that was Corey Matheson,ö laughs Taylor. ôI remember talking to
him on the phone and he said æIÆm from Nova Scotia, I play pedal steel, lap
steel, piano, guitaràÆ and I said æholy S@#t dude, IÆll be over there in like
five minutes.ö
ôWe have all been in many bands before, some of us have even had a modest amount
of success, but no matter what, we are in it for life, and I think to some
degree this can be heard in the music,ö Taylor said, ôThereÆs something real
about the music, thereÆs something magical when we are on stage together. I
think the magic comes from the fact that music æisÆ us, not just æinÆ us. We
are in it for the simple reason that we have no choice.ö