Bryan Adams: Digital Booklet - Tracks of My Tears

TRACKS OF MY YEARS

1. AnY TiME AT All2. ShE KnOwS ME

3. i CAn’T STOp lOving YOu4. KiSS And SAY gOOdbYE*

5. lAY lAdY lAY 6. ROCK And ROll MuSiC*7. dOwn On ThE CORnER

8. nEvER MY lOvE9. SunnY

10. ThE TRACKS OF MY TEARS11. gOd OnlY KnOwS

12. YOu'vE bEEn A FRiEnd TO ME13. hElp ME MAKE iT ThROugh ThE nighT

14. C'MOn EvERYbOdY15. MAnY RivERS TO CROSS

16. YOu ShOOK ME

pROduCEd bY dAvid FOSTER And bA *pROduCEd bY bOb ROCK And bA

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You may be wondering who the guy is on the cover of this album. i know it looks like some-one that just crawled out of the deep purple road crew tour bus, but i can assure you that’s me and that’s my hair - age 16 in north van-couver, Canada. The photo was taken by my friend Ray in the courtyard at my school dur-ing a break from the art/photography class we were in. we were messing around with an old Soviet 35mm Zenit camera, taking pho-tos of each other for a laugh. The teacher never judged the photo, but in fairness to the teacher, how was he to know it would be on an album cover 40 years later?

while trying to work out what the right album cover was for this collection of songs, this im-age seemed a fitting portrait, as much of the music on this album is more or less from this

time period and most of it would have been on the radio. it was the time when i had fully decided that music was the thing for me, even football, which was my other passion, start-ed to become second place. All those years later, nothing has really changed except the hair got shorter. Anyway, this is exactly what i looked like in the mid 1970’s when my family returned to Canada, from living in the Middle East.i love loud guitar music; bands like deep pur-ple and led Zeppelin was the kind of music that was huge on the radio back then, and even though i could not afford to buy a lot of records, hard rock got me and i was hooked. it was a fantastic time for guitars: black-more, page, Clapton, Ronson, Townsend and there was music from The who, david bow-ie, humble pie, and their predecessors the

beatles and The Rolling Stones, just to name a few. here’s me practicing bad Company songs at home, and enjoying all the American music of Alice Cooper, CCR, CSnY, Simon and garfunkel and Janis Joplin. Stevie won-der’s “Songs in The Key of life” was a big hit at my house; my brother and i loved his music and we went to see him for our first concert together in vancouver, in about 1975. in fact, i think the first time i liked my voice was walk-ing to school singing a Stevie song to myself (i’m glad no one else heard that).

So why not do a hard rock album? i would have loved to have done one, but this album came about because i got asked by producer/musician david Foster, now the head of verve Records, to do an album of covers with him. his criteria was that the songs had to have

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been top ten hits in the uSA, so there goes my rock album straight away. As a result it took a long time to convince me to do this, because in my eyes, most original recordings were sacrosanct, and the definitive versions shouldn’t be touched unless you were just playing them live for fun. i’m no stranger to covering a song live, recently one of my Japa-nese fans sent me four Cd’s of cover songs recorded live from bootlegs, however, there are massive exceptions to the rule and many artists have done extraordinary things with songs of others, there are too many to list.

we did about 3 months of recording, spread out over the course of 2 years. we tried some originals co-written by Jim vallance and my-self, but only one made it “She Knows Me” and the rest of this album is a mish-mash of songs i knew from the 70’s and not necessar-ily songs i would have paid much attention to at the time, but they stuck with me and it was fun to visit them.

why do an album like this now and not be-fore? i’ve asked myself the same question many times. My manager bruce has been on me to do a record like this for decades. “do an album of Sam Cooke songs” he’d shout at me, but his voice is so great that i always thought Sam Cooke covers were never as good, though i wish i could sing “Tennessee waltz” as good as him. Making the selection of the songs for the album took a long time, and we recorded all kinds of songs until the songs sort of presented themselves, or sound-ed different enough from the originals. “nev-er My love” became one of these recordings that we sort of used as the benchmark. On “lay lady lay” dylan sang the verses an oc-tave lower than this new version of the song, but i reckoned it sounded different enough to make it on the album. There are a couple of songs here produced with bob Rock, who i have to credit for being the one who tipped the scale in getting me to agree to this. his words were ‘make a record you like and you will want to go and tell everyone about it’, i

couldn’t argue with that. plus it was exciting to get asked to make a record by an American record company, something i’d not had since the 1990’s.

Radio was king when i was a teenager. i used to hide my transistor AM radio under my pil-low waiting for “born To be wild” by Step-penwolf or “Mississippi Queen” by Mountain, or “Killer Queen” by Queen. And radio didn’t discriminate back then, you’d hear McCart-ney’s “Admiral halsey” straight into “Kiss and Say goodbye” by the Manhattans. AM radio would play rock and pop, but also R+b. i didn’t know bobby hebb sang “Sunny” when i was a youngster, but you couldn’t escape the song, it was simply everywhere in the 70’s. The same goes for all of the songs on this album, they were just in your head and ines-capably so. if you don’t know some of these songs, go and check out the originals, many of them are now ingrained in our fabric. i hope these versions do them justice, and you enjoy the interpretations i’ve done.

bryan

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ANY TiMe AT All

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C’mon Everybody*

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Many Rivers To Cross

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4/6/14 produced by bOb ROCK and bA

bA produced “You’ve been a Friend To Me”Mastered by bOb ludwig at gateway Mastering

Recorded by JOChEM vAn dER SAAg at verve Records, Santa Monica, California, uSA, assisted by OliviER bASSil and JORgE vivO

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6/12/14 Mixed by bOb ROCK at The warehouse Studioassisted by AdAM gREEnhOlTZ and RYAn EnOCKSOn

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Thanks to all the musicians & friends that helped out with the recording of this album,

thanks especially to dAvid FOSTER and bOb ROCK who got me into the studio.

JiM vAllAnCE, bRuCE AllEn, JOChEM vAn dER SAAg,

MuTT lAngE, JEFF lYnnE, OliviER bASSil, JOdY pERpiCK,

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ChRiS AinSCOugh, JOhn RiChMOnd, AliCiA gRiMAldi, my pAREnTS, my brother bRuCE and

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This Cd is dedicated to friends that i lost during the making of this record: gil FRiESEn, l’wREn SCOTT, AnnAbEllE TOllMAn, bRiAn ChATER, MARCO gRECO, CARTER,

AndY JOhnS, KRiSTEn pORRElli, FElix dEnniS, pEAChES gEldOF And pACO dE luCiA

Artwork and design: diRK RudOlph

Cover photo: RAY pARKER

(taken in north vancouver, Canada in 1976)back booklet photo: bA

P & © 2014 badman limitedMusicians: bA: acoustic guitar and bassdAvid FOSTER: piano and keyboards

gARY bREiT: piano and organMiCKEY CuRRY: drums

KEiTh SCOTT: electric guitar and ebow guitarMiChAEl ThOMpSOn: electric guitar

Additional musicians: RuSTY AndERSOn: electric guitar

JOSh FREESE: drumsnORM FiShER: bass

bOb ClEARMOunTAin: bassChRiS STEElE: percussion

Technical: protools editing: JORgE vivO, OllE ROMO

Studio management at The warehouse Studio: bRYAn gAllAnT

Office: project coordinator: SAndEE bAThgATE

personal assistant to bA: Ali MARR

Accounting: nAnCY EMERY

verve Admin and A&R Coordination: KAThERinE TEMpESTA and EvElYn MORgAn

production Manager: ChRiSTinE TEllECK

Tour personel: Tour management / front of house sound: JOdY pERpiCK

guitar tech: CRAig pATTiSOn

Stage monitors: ROb nEvAlAinEn

Stage production manager: dOn “TOE” pROdAEhl

Chef: MAnu luYTOn

production manager: ROY lAMb

lights: EwAn MCRObb and willY williAMS

uSA booking agent: TERRY RhOdES

uK/Europe booking agent: CARl lEighTOn-pOpE

([email protected])

Management: bRuCE AllEn

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www.bryanadams.comwww.warehousestudio.comwww.vervemusicgroup.com

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