Alternative country

10 MP3 Songs
COUNTRY: Alt-Country, COUNTRY: Country Blues



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Andre Camilleri and The Broken Hearts are the latest addition to Melbourne's Country music scene. Andre learned his trade singing and drinking in the shadows of Maltaâs red-light district around the infamous Straight Street, deep in the guts of the island stateâs capitol Valletta. In 2006, after years of drifting aimlessly around the world, writing tunes just to âkeep the devil in his holeâ, Andre arrived in Melbourne. Here his luck finally started to turn when he found a bunch of like minded musicians he had been searching for so long. They are Chris Birnie on bass, James Stewart (T-Bones, Overnight Jones, The Warner Brothers) on lead guitar, Brendan Mitchell (Dead Livers) on pedal steel and Mauro Del Citto (The Rhumbats, April Seven) on drums. Oh boy, these guys can play! Andreâs song-writing is firmly rooted in the Blues tradition, voicing the lament of the down and out, broken hearted and alienated people. Influenced by the likes of Robert Johnson, Woody Guthrie, Hank Williams, Bo Diddley, George Jones, Gram Parsons, Johnny Cash, Townes van Zandt, Roky Erikson and Jay Farrar the Broken Hearts have created their own uniquely Australian take on âgood countryâ music. Their first album CD âOne fine day and other songsâ (released by Ramblinâ Man Records, distributed by Sound Vault Records) is receiving ample radio play all across the country. More importantly, the Broken Hearts are quickly establishing themselves as one of Australiaâs top live music acts. And this is what significant others had to say: Dave Dawson, Beat magazine: Melbourneâs Andre Camilleri has dipped deep in to the stone country template for his first album with the Broken Hearts⦠Itâs hard to listen to âSad Old Clownâ without thinking of Smoky Robinsonâs 1970âs hit, but he didnât have the Best Whorehouse in Texas stage show player Mitchell playing on his tune!â Phil Knipe, Radio KLFM: âIt's the sort of stuff I like to present - neither super schmaltz (a la Charlie Landsborough et al) nor faux contemporary Nashville like so much Australian C&W. Thanks for the decent music.â Kristy Edmunds, Melbourne Arts Festival: âAnd again, I really enjoyed the music.â www.andrecamilleri.com