Green joked that Bareham used to scoff at his previous attempts at recording at-home demos - “What the f-k is this?” he recalled Bareham saying - but perhaps if he were still around he’d be proud of what Green can do now. “ I felt I was losing my way of life, which was all I had known for 20 years: making music, recording it, and then going out and touring.”Įven though he might have stepped back from music in 2020 for a brief period of time, whether intentionally or not, its cathartic lure is what ultimately brought him back, and the recording equipment he received from his late friend’s family is what finally gave him the motivation to learn something new, with some help from longtime City and Colour bandmate Matt Kelly. “I just felt like I had lost, a lot,” Green said over the phone earlier in March, days after finishing a tour in Australia.
Bareham’s death set off an avalanche of moments that buried Green, who was approaching 40 at the time, in what he calls a “tailor-made mid-life crisis.” Then, as we all well know, the world shut down in March 2020.
The Canadian singer-songwriter had received a bunch of at-home recording equipment from the family of his best friend and producer, Karl “Horse” Bareham, who died in a scuba diving accident in Australia in the fall of 2019, 10 days before the official release of Green’s previous album. For once, Dallas Green actually sounds pretty optimistic.Īfter dealing with months of unimaginable forms of loss in 20 - with the deaths of his friend and cousin in a short span, the deterioration of his personal relationships and essentially his career - Green, also known as City and Colour and for being one fifth of the heavy rock band Alexisonfire, is finally feeling like himself again.īut the journey through that loss wasn’t easy, chronicled in his seventh full-length City and Colour album, “The Love Still Held Me Near,” out Friday.
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