{"id":16734,"date":"2018-09-05T07:54:54","date_gmt":"2018-09-04T21:54:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\/surfcoasttimes\/?p=16734"},"modified":"2018-09-06T18:14:25","modified_gmt":"2018-09-06T08:14:25","slug":"american-history-in-hits-at-torquay-bowls-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\/surfcoasttimes\/living\/american-history-in-hits-at-torquay-bowls-club\/","title":{"rendered":"American history in hits at Torquay Bowls Club"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Renowned Australian singer-songwriter Fred Smith is arriving to the Torquay Bowls Club for a once-off performance on September 9 from 3pm to 6pm.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Fred will perform hits off his new album, Great, which he describes as a \u201crollicking hayride through American history, politics and pathologies\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>One of the few Australian songwriters who has both a US Marine Corps medal and a US merchant mariner\u2019s license, Smith\u2019s musical musings come with a lot of knowledge and experience.<\/p>\n<p>He spent four years in America, working cruise ships and touring the Eisenhower interstate system, and worked alongside American soldiers in southern Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>Now with the USA deeply divided, Fred Smith returns from the dust of Uruzgan to revisit his fascination for all things American; the new double album features his brilliant balladry and brings to the fore his reverence and comprehension of American music and mythology.<\/p>\n<p>Great is a remarkably eclectic double album collection of songs, the first disc includes 12 songs written and recorded in the classic American folk\/country style \u2013  story songs, some funny, some sad, bringing to the fore Fred\u2019s gift for melody and lyric, and his talent for inhabiting other people\u2019s worlds.<\/p>\n<p>On the second disc, Fred lets the band off the leash \u2013 drums, bass, electric guitars and horns. It\u2019s a riot and a romp through songs and stories with American settings &#8211; mostly wry but sympathetic accounts of characters fictional and otherwise.<\/p>\n<p>When asked what an Australian songwriter is doing writing American stories he said it stemmed from American influences growing up.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLike most of us, I grew up steeped in American culture, writers from O\u2019Henry to Steinbeck, television from CHiPS to the A-Team, and 20th Century America produced musical stylings so sublime they have become universal mediums of musical expression.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fred will be accompanied by an all-star band including Liz Frencham on double bass, Carl Pannuzzo on drums and piano, and one or two other eminent sidemen.<\/p>\n<p>Purchase tickets at the bar or at trybooking.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Renowned Australian singer-songwriter Fred Smith is arriving to the Torquay Bowls Club for a once-off performance on September 9 from 3pm to 6pm. 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