I am chatting to Adam Harvey about his upcoming tour of Tasmania, the name Adam means ‘man from the red earth’ and it’s an appropriate name for Australia’s own earthy country singer Adam Harvey.
Adam gets to tour Tasmania about once every two years and recalls when I talk with him that he believes the last visit was with fellow country artist Becky Cole. This August you can see Adam on tour in Tasmania with another country legend in Troy Cassar-Daly showcasing their new album ‘The Great Country Songbook’ in a very special concert partnership.
Adam and Troy both have a great love of the old country classics and would often get together and jam at almost every opportunity when they met up on the touring circuit. It came to be a regular thing to jam those old country classics in Tamworth and other venues.
It wasn’t long before their fans requested the guys record an album and ‘The Great Country Songbook’ and tour was born.
Adam believes these classic country songs will be good to expose to the young generation of country music lovers and performers as all the songs, as Adam says, are the cream of the crop.
You will hear and see Troy and Adam sing ‘The King of the road’, ‘I walk the line’, a personal favourite of Adam’s, as well as what has been voted and is considered to be the greatest country song of all time George Jones’ ‘He stopped loving her today’ and of course from the Australian contingent our own king of country Slim’s ‘The light on the hill’.
Adam, although he is in country heaven at the moment with the recording of the album and the prospect of the tour, has never been afraid of experimenting with his music and has been part of collaborations with artists he respects outside the genre. Adam has worked with Leo Sayer, Wendy Matthews and Guy Sebastian among others and with his own children becoming very musical, his daughter with piano and his son a rap singer I wonder if maybe there might be a future familial collaboration? However,Adam tells me he draws the line at rap!
Although Adam has worked in Nashville as a staff writer and finds the welcoming of the USA singers to working with Australians a very endearing quality, he is committed at the moment of working in Australia with Australian writers.
Adam tells me that Troy who is in the USA receiving treatment for throat nodules is well on the mend and looking forward to joining him on tour.
You can see Adam and Troy:
Thu, Aug 1st 2013 Country Club Resort, Launceston
Fri, Aug 2nd 2013 Wrest Point Entertainment Centre, Hobart
Sat, Aug 3rd 2013 Burnie Arts and Function Centre, Burnie
‘The Great Country Songbook’ is out now.
Paula Xiberras
