City And Colour Biography

The Hurry and The Harm
“I just wanted to make an honest record.”
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.
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.

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