Troy Cassar-Daley
Whe Troy Cassar-Daley came up with the title for his new album, I Love This Place, he was thinking more about a state of mind than any place you can find on a map. Much as he loves hanging out with his wife and kids, or throwing a line in on his farm an hour out of Brisbane, the much loved and respected Aussie country musician more wanted to share a blissful time and place in his life. Rather than having a midlife crisis and buying a Harley on hitting his milestone 40th birthday, Cassar-Daley realised he was exactly where he wanted to be.
After six studio albums, 14 Golden Guitars, three ARIAs, countless tours across our wide, brown land and two stints on the top-rating Channel 7 show It Takes Two, Cassar-Daley has good reason to be content and wants to share that positivity.
Cassar-Daley, who also co-produced for the first time, had the luxury of taking a year off touring to craft his songs and with I Love This Place, he further establishes himself as a consummate story-teller and one of this country’s finest and most evocative singer-songwriters. Good mate Keith Urban suggested he try writing with a drum machine to take him out of his comfort zone and while the honesty and rawness of the traditional country he listened to in his youth remains his strongest influence, the spectrum of sounds on the album incorporating rock, pop, blues and folk is testament to his versatility.
I Love This Place features an array of fine co -writers including Don Walker, Colin Buchanan, the McClymonts and Brisbane-based singer songwriter Mark Sholtez, but songs are unmistakably Troy.
But it was the outstanding group of musicians that Troy and co-producer Rod McCormack assembled for the recording that give the album its warmth. Including Bill Risby on piano, Mitch Farmer on drums, Clayton Doley on Hammond organ, Jeff Mc Cormack on bass, Rod McCormack on acoustic guitar, banjo, electric guitar, mandolin, lap steel & dobro, Camille Te Nahu on backing vocals rounds out the ensemble and naturally, Troy himself on electric & acoustic guitars & mandolin.
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