City And Colour

City and Colour is the alias for Juno Award-winning Canadian singer-songwriter Dallas Green, also know as the singer in the post-hardcore band Alexisonfire. He started playing under this alias in 2004. He plays acoustic and folk music . He is often accompanied by a varying number of musicians.

History

The name City and Colour comes from his own name: Dallas, a city, and Green, a colour. His reasoning for the name was that he felt uneasy "putting the album out under the name Dallas Green".Dallas Green mellows out with City and Colour

Green said that he had been writing material since he was around the age of 13
. Regarding the songs released on his first album, Sometimes, Green said that he had been writing material for it throughout the course of his life, and finished writing songs for it in 2005.

Sometimes (2005)

Green began releasing City and Colour songs on the internet for fans to download. Eventually, he compiled and rewrote several of these songs to make his first album, Sometimes. The full length debut was released on November 1, 2005 to a good reception, described by one reviewer as "dynamically gentle and vulnerable". The cover art was designed by Scott McEwan, in a tattoo-esque style; Green "still may decide to have some of them inked at a later point in time".Dallas Green: An Introspective Look

Green indicated that his view that the "best music for [1] is sad music", influenced the type of songs he created

. He also said that he "love[2] music to sort of escape to" and the idea of sad music that people could identify with. Green said of the album that, "a lot of those songs are written on some of the experiences I've been through and stuff and that’s just how I deal with it. I just write songs when I’m bummed out and I feel happier."

Sometimes was re-released on Vagrant Records on January 13, 2009, which was first time the album was available in physical form in the United States.

Bring Me Your Love (2008)

Bring Me Your Love is Dallas' second full-length album. It was released on February 12, 2008 and features a wide array of instruments not used on his previous recordings (such as harmonica, banjo, drums and lap steel) giving it a more folk-influenced sound. The album also features collaborations with other musicians, such as Canadian musician Gordon Downie of Tragically Hip on the track "Sleeping Sickness", and additional instrumentals done by Matt Sullivan and the members of Attack in Black. The lead single, "Waiting...", was released on Green's official MySpace page for the first time featuring a "making of" video. The album has also been compared with musical legend Neil Young's album, Harvest as it draws considerable influences from such artists.

The album is named after a novel by Charles Bukowski. It is also a line sung in the closing track, "As Much As I Ever Could." Green has stated in interviews that he has troubles writing a lot of his lyrics and he saw Charles Bukowski's book in a book store while on tour with Alexisonfire and adopted the title for his new album.

On September 26, 2008, City and Colour embarked on their first American tour, in support of Bring Me Your Love.City and Colour Set Out On First U.S. Tour

In October, 2008, Dine Alone Records announced a special 2-disc limited edition of Bring Me Your Love to be released on December 2, 2008. Only 6000 copies are available; 5000 in North America and 1000 in Australiawww.dinealonerecords.com/releases/view/36. In Canada, when the record label put up the album on pre-sale on November 20, 2008, so many fans tried to pre-order it that the store's website crashed.

Band members

Dallas Green – lead vocals, lead guitar, rhythm guitar, acoustic guitar, banjo, harmonica, piano, songwriter.

Other members

The following musicians have appeared as recording artists on the album Bring Me Your Love and have also toured with Dallas Green as backing musicians.

Spencer Burton - bass guitar, mandolin, backing vocals
Daniel Tavis Romano - lap steel, organ, drums, backing vocals
Jordan Mitchell - backing vocals
Dylan Green - drums, vocals
Casey Baker - rhythm guitar
Nicholas Osczypko - keyboards, percussion
Gordon Downie - guest vocals on the track "Sleeping Sickness"
Scott Remila - bass guitar, rhythm guitar, backing vocals
Haris Cehajic - bass guitar, rhythm guitar

Discography

Studio albums

EP's/Limited Editions

Missing EP

Missing EP, by City and Colour, was released at the same time as The Death of Me, and was solely released in Canada. Only 1000 copies of this CD were made and all proceeds went to the Denis Morris High School Starvathon. The CD also contains live videos for In The Water I Am Beautiful, Missing (Serravalle), Love Don’t Live Here Anymore (Rose Royce Cover), and Casey’s Song, Filmed by Rohan Hill at the L3 Nightclub in . Catharines, Ontario.

Live albums

Singles

Awards and nominations

2006 MuchMusic Video Awards

Nominated for Best Pop Video for "Save Your Scissors"
Nominated for Best Independent Video for "Save Your Scissors"
Won Peoples Choice: Favourite Artist for "Save Your Scissors"

2007 MuchMusic Video Awards

Nominated for Best Pop Video for "Comin' Home"
Nominated for Peoples Choice: Favourite Artist for "Comin' Home"

2008 MuchMusic Video Awards

Nominated for Peoples Choice: Favourite Artist for "Waiting..."

Chart magazine

2006 artist of the year

2007 Juno Awards

Won: Alternative Album of the Year (for Sometimes)

2009 Juno Awards

Won: Songwriter of the Year (for "Waiting...", "Sleeping Sickness" and "The Girl")
Nominated: Artist of the Year

Trivia

The song "Missing" was written about Green's religion teacher, Ralph Serravalle, who died. 1000 copies of the Missing EP were released exclusively in Canada and all proceeds went to the Denis Morris High School Starvathon that Serravalle had started, and continuously supported. Serravalle played a large part in teaching Green to believe in himself as a musician. Citation needed

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