I just need my musical mind. The fifth album from Bahamas (Afie Jurvanen), Sad Hunk, takes its title from a nickname bestowed by his wife in reaction to how he was portrayed in the media. “[At first] I was frustrated because I thought I needed to sit in a room with my guitar for hours to come up with these great ideas. I had a bass world, a guitar world, a piano world. “If I’m making working to make my neighborhood the best it can be, knowing my neighbors and fellow parents at my kids’ school, and you’re doing that in yours, what more could you ask for?” he asks. “I don’t know any other way to do it.
A vulnerable maturity spills from the emotive, “Less Than Love.”. We’re just here on this rock for such a short time, and then we die.”, Songs like “Own Alone” and “Trick To Happy” offer commentary on this concept.
Another lifecycle thing also happened last weekend, when Jurvanen got married. "I've been joking with him … I’m not concerned with being the first one through the door. Penned with co-writers Dee White and Pat McLaughlin (John Prine, Bonnie Raitt), the acoustic-guitar-driven “Half Your Love” shares a profoundly heartfelt outpouring of affection for his wife. to colleagues, clients or customers, or inquire about I just kind of sang it out to the air and played a little beat on the drum kit and said, ‘Okay, let’s go for it.’. Since 2014’s double-Juno-winning Bahamas Is Afie, he and his wife, Naomi, have had two children. Enter your Republic Records account e-mail address.
The fifth album from Bahamas, Sad Hunk takes its title from a nickname bestowed upon the artist by his wife in reaction to how he was being portrayed in the media, “Something like ten years ago I did a photo shoot, and in all the pictures they sent back I was lit half in shadow, looking all brooding and mysterious,” says the award-winning singer/songwriter otherwise known as Afie Jurvanen.
For Jurvanen, his music comes secondary to his role as husband, father, and neighbor in Canada. I feel like we don’t get to play enough here,” he says. “The message comes across pretty damn quickly,” he says. To order
Downtown Music Publishing represents Bahamas songs.
Jurvanen hasn’t let the current inability to tour due to COVID-19 get him down; he even has a fake cancelled 2020 tour poster available on his website. All
And he’s been finding plenty to do even while restricting his movements to the Maritimes. A collaboration from same team as 2018s Earthtones Christine Bougie/Don Kerr/Mike OBrien/Felicity Williams.
Jurvanen is every bit as easygoing as the music he makes, and the man is not ashamed to sound smoooooothe.
“It wasn’t so much a professional decision as it was a lifestyle decision and a decision for my family. [11] Bahamas opened for Jack Johnson, Robert Plant, Wilco, The Lumineers and City and Colour. I like so many different types of music, so finding a way to have my own voice reflected in all that is hard. [1] He is of Finnish ancestry. It’s almost like a photograph as opposed to a painting, where if you don’t like the color of a certain flower in the garden, you change it. Without preaching, Jurvanen provides insights others can align with, relieved to discover shared, stark sentiments. Weekly check-ins like Tuesdays’ “Taco Tunes,” which feature fellow artists he draws inspiration from, keep him interconnected with the world outside of his closed-off community.