{"id":35564,"date":"2024-05-13T19:16:14","date_gmt":"2024-05-14T00:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/?p=35564"},"modified":"2024-05-13T05:31:55","modified_gmt":"2024-05-13T10:31:55","slug":"australias-gypsy-artist-colin-lillie-releases-side-b-track-the-ballad-of-evey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/australias-gypsy-artist-colin-lillie-releases-side-b-track-the-ballad-of-evey\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia&#8217;s Gypsy Artist Colin Lillie Releases Side B Track \u201cThe Ballad of Evey\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- VideographyWP Plugin Message: Automatic video embedding prevented by plugin options. --><br \/>\n<iframe width=\"640\" height=\"360\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border: none;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bitchute.com\/embed\/wmA7FURmb85N\/\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nAbout Colin Lillie<\/p>\n<p>Colin Lillie is certainly one of a kind. This gypsy Scotsman has found a new life in Alice Springs, in the Australian central desert, where he has thrived as a songwriter. You don\u2019t have to delve very deeply into Colin\u2019s lyrics or the heart of his voice to know his songs are driven by someone who has all of the shades of life experience to lean into. This rang true with his 2017 and 2019 awards for Best Live Voice at the National Live Music Awards.<\/p>\n<p>In 2016, Colin released his debut album \u2018Glass Homes\u2019 to critical acclaim and managed to take out the AU Review people\u2019s choice Australian Artist Of The Year award. In 2020, he released the Mark Lizotte (DIESEL)-produced \u2018Petrichor\u2019 EP. August 2021 saw the release of \u2018Shades Of Love\u2019 , Colin&#8217;s second studio album. This was recorded at Wild Mountain Studios with enigmatic producer Jamie Trevaskis (The Wilson Pickers), and together Colin and Jamie found a darker honesty in his performances than on any previous releases.<\/p>\n<p>He released the EP \u2018THE\u2026\u2019, produced by Australian Country star Catherine Britt and Colin Lillie.\u2019 The..\u2019 featured award-winning artist Shane Nicholson, with whom he had two critically acclaimed songs released: \u2018The War\u2019, followed by \u2018The Road\u2019, a duet with Catherine Britt.<\/p>\n<p>Colin also enjoys co-writing with the likes of Rohin Jones (The Middle East), Tyrone Noonan (George), and Lachlan Bryan (Lachlan Bryan and the Wildes), to name a few.<\/p>\n<p>Pre 2020 Colin was well on the way to becoming one of Australia\u2019s hardest touring artists, supporting the likes of DIESEL, BUSBY MAROU, JAMES REYNE, and THE ANIMALS on their relentless tour schedules and making friends everywhere he went. Colin also performed five shows at the 2019 Woodford Folk Festival and made it to New Orleans in 2020 as part of the Folk Alliance International Festival. So it&#8217;s no surprise that 2022 saw him get right back into supporting Catherine on her Bush Pup tour, traveling throughout regional Australia and finishing with performances in April 2022 at his first Tamworth Country Music Festival. This was followed once again by being invited to perform at the prestigious Folk Alliance conference\/showcase in Kansas City and then to the renowned Americana Fest conference\/showcase in Nashville.<\/p>\n<p>The new year has not stopped with a number of shows at this year&#8217;s Tamworth Country Music Festival, with an electrifying performance at Americana in the Park in front of a crowd of over 5000 Aussie country fans.<\/p>\n<p>This has seen Colin build his audience and head back into the studio with Catherine Britt once again to record new music for a second EP later in the year. 2023 has already seen Colin start the year with a number of tour dates across Australia, starting with a Small Halls tour of 16 shows in Western Australia. Then he embarked on a national solo tour of Australia, with dates in Hobart and Darwin. He also performed at this year&#8217;s Port Fairy Festival and the National Celtic Festival, with him planning to head back to Nashville to perform as part of Sounds Australia at Americana Fest in September.<\/p>\n<p>With dates already confirmed for Tamworth 2024 and a run of co-headline dates with Billie Jo Porter 2024, it is already looking busy for the up-and-coming Australian Americana artists. Lillie is already working on a third full studio album and is currently filming a 10-episode art series, which has already seen Colin interview a number of Australian creatives from the music, TV, art, and journalism worlds. He also released a track with fellow Australian singer-songwriter David Garnham and the Reason to Live in August this year.<\/p>\n<p>Realizing Colin\u2019s increasing profile, he was offered and has accepted a sponsorship from Takamine Guitars.<\/p>\n<p>And the world continues to discover Colin\u2019s songs and singing\u2014something that\u2019s very evident from the number of uses of his songs recently in film and television. The track \u2018Hold On\u2019 is included in Adam, a Hollywood movie starring Aaron Paul (Breaking Bad). \u2018Human Kind of Life\u2019 is on the BBC television show Wakefield. \u2018The Broken Crown\u2019, a song from Colin&#8217;s EP \u2018He\u2019, was featured in a Steve King short film that was released in 2022, and in 2023, he also has songs and music in the forthcoming documentary Yimi Junga, which highlights the continual struggle of Aboriginal women and children in remote Australia. Not too bad at all!<\/p>\n<p>So as Colin hits the road again, performing as much as possible, he continues to write as well as work with people in recovery from drug and alcohol addictions. Colin visits rehab centers and uses his songs and life experience as a way to assist others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About Colin Lillie Colin Lillie is certainly one of a kind. This gypsy Scotsman has found a new life in Alice Springs, in the Australian central desert, where he has thrived as a songwriter. You don\u2019t have to delve very deeply into Colin\u2019s lyrics or the heart of his voice to know his songs are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34973,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[406],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-35564","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-video","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"post_format-post-format-video"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35564"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35566,"href":"https:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35564\/revisions\/35566"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}