Named one of Total Guitar’s Top 10 Best New Guitarists in 2018 two years after being named one of Yahoo! Music’s “Top Ten Best New Artist,” Australia’s roots rock artist, Hamish Anderson is teeing up his new album for 2019. Hamish released his critically acclaimed debut album Trouble in 2016. He supported the album with 11 performances at SXSW (2017); and has opened for BB King, Vintage Trouble, Drive By Truckers, Jared & The Mill, Low Cut Connie; and toured the US while appearing at US festivals such as BottleRock, Firefly, Echo Park Rising, Mountain Jam, High Sierra, Big Blues Bender, Summerfest, Telluride Blues & Brews Festival and Canada’s RBC Bluesfest Ottawa.
On May 3rd Hamish will release his second album, Out of My Head, which finds the guitarist taking new risks as he explores the possibilities of what he can do both with his instrument and as a songwriter. Today Glide is excited to premiere “Dark Eyes”, one of the standout tracks on Out of My Head. Though Hamish is known for his blues guitar, “Dark Eyes” is a slower, more heartfelt ballad that showcases his songwriting and vocal chops a bit more than his guitar playing. With piano and organ setting the mood, the song is reminiscent of the more mellow yet powerful work by acts like the Rolling Stones, the Black Crowes, and the Wallflowers. Â
Hamish shares some insight on the song:
“Unlike other songs I’ve written, ‘Dark Eyes’ took an unusually long time to write. I started writing it in early 2013 after going through a break up. I wrote one verse and the chorus and that was as far as I could get. I made a rough demo of the song that I just had around for years. When I was writing songs for my new album at the end of 2017, I came across that demo again. That was when I wrote the intro riff which starts the song and it started to take.”
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