SONG PREMIERE: Angus Gill & Seasons of Change Featuring Steve Earle Bring Outlaw Blues To “The New Old Me”

Award-winning singer/songwriter, producer, engineer, multi-instrumentalist, and comedian, Angus Gill has never been one to blend in. From humble beginnings as a 10-year old entertaining crowds at a popular heritage theme park in his hometown of Wauchope, to opening for the legendary Kris Kristofferson and becoming one of the youngest Australians to perform on the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville Tennessee, this small town NSW born old soulis quickly gaining a strong reputation for his formidable songcraft, distinctive vocals and rock-solid work ethic. 

The Golden Guitar nominated artist and producer has collaborated with some of Music Rows biggest hitmakers who have taken Keith Urban, Kenny Chesney, Dolly Parton and Tim McGraw to numerous Billboard number one positions. This has led to the creation of Gills second self-produced studio album Welcome To My Heart, released via ABC/UMA in September 2019, which topped the ARIA Charts and was a finalist for Traditional Country Album of the Yearat the 2020 CMAA Golden Guitar Awards. 

Gills newest project Angus Gill & Seasons of Change, sees the Southern Stars award winner team up with the members of Paul Kellys band for an edgy genre busting record 3 Minute Movies, featuring Peter ‘Lucky’ Luscombe on drums, Bill McDonald on bass, Cameron Bruce on piano, Fender Rhodes and Hammond B3 organ, Dan Kelly and Ashley Naylor on electric guitars. Mutual friend, alt-country legend Steve Earle, introduced Gill to the band back in 2017 and features on the stellar outlaw Country duet “The New Old Me.”

Gill recalls “I can still remember my Mother’s face/When I took that shaver to my saving grace” in the bildungsroman Coming of Age, written with A-list songwriter Bob DiPiero.

The ‘Bonnie & Clyde anomaly’ Daylight Robbery is a collaboration with Australian rock legend Mark Lizotte (Diesel), who provides acoustic and electric guitars, backing vocals, mandolin and other stringed flourishes on the track. The bagpipes make a prominent return to rock music in Skin Story and a horn section makes an appearance in the ‘side-street labyrinth’ Acquainted With The Night, which grapples with mortality. The anthemic Hey Underdog, co-written with Hall of Fame Songwriter Jeffrey Steele, Grammy-winning Vicky McGehee and Providence David, features the Beatles inspired ‘guitar into a Leslie speaker’ sound.

Glide is thrilled to premiere the duet “The New Old Me” a swaggering blast of a bygone whirl of bluesy Country that possesses a road-house rhythm snap. Call it Autraliacana, or whatever you may will but Gill’s aged voice reminds listeners of young oldsters like Colter Wall and Cody Jinks. It doesn’t hurt to have a Mr. Steve Earle singing harmonies either!

“The New Old Me’ is a classic master vs apprentice duet. I was staying with my mate Allan Caswell up in the Blue Mountains and I brought out this hook I had in my scrapbook and we started writing to this outlaw Country feel,” says Gill. “In my opinion, Allan and Steve share many similarities, from the fact that they are both revered songwriters, to the length of their beards. I’ve looked up to them both and have learned a lot from them.”

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