{"id":13221,"date":"2020-06-13T07:42:08","date_gmt":"2020-06-13T07:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/?p=13221"},"modified":"2020-06-13T07:42:11","modified_gmt":"2020-06-13T07:42:11","slug":"australian-icon-james-reyne-releases-the-acoustic-new-single-toon-town-lullaby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2020\/06\/13\/australian-icon-james-reyne-releases-the-acoustic-new-single-toon-town-lullaby\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian icon JAMES REYNE releases the acoustic new single ‘Toon Town Lullaby’"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Check out the new video here:\u00a0https:\/\/youtu.be\/eGDKzoDi33Q<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Toon Town Lullaby<\/em><\/strong>\u2013 James Reyne<\/strong>\u2019s first studio album in eight years \u2013 features searingly honest reflections on missed opportunities (\u2018A Little Ol\u2019 Town South Of Bakersfield\u2019), the music industry (\u2018Low Hanging Fruit\u2019) and the modern world (\u2018Burning Books\u2019). There\u2019s also a moving tribute to James\u2019 best mate (\u2018The Tallest Man I Ever Knew\u2019) and ruminations on romance. \u201cIn matters of the misses,<\/em>\u201d James notes in \u2018Calamity Jane\u2019, \u201cthere is one who kisses, and the other who offers the cheek<\/em>.\u201d
Dig deep and you\u2019ll also find references to some songwriting greats, including Warren Zevon, David Allan Coe, Jimmy Buffett and Blaze Foley.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Produced by Dorian West and James Reyne, Toon Town Lullaby<\/em><\/strong> \u2013 <\/em>James\u2019 12th<\/sup> solo studio album \u2013 also features James\u2019 stab at trying to write a love song called \u2018Trying To Write A Love Song\u2019. \u201cA number of people have said to me over the years, \u2018Why don\u2019t you ever write a love song?\u2019 So I thought I\u2019d give it a go<\/em>,\u201d James says. \u201cI also wanted to use \u2018Yuengling\u2019 in a song.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

James and Dorian played nearly everything on the record, with Dorian\u2019s daughter, Asha, adding some backing vocals, while James\u2019 longest-running musical partner, John Watson, played drums. James and John have been playing together for 37 years. \u201cIt\u2019s almost ESP,<\/em>\u201d James says of their connection. \u201cHe just plays my songs really well, he gets them. He\u2019s a song drummer \u2013 he sits inside the song, he\u2019s brilliant.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of Australia’s finest lyricists, James addresses the muses in the title track, a song about songwriting, inspired by a writing trip to Nashville, the songwriting capital of the world \u2013 Toon Town. \u201cI\u2019m gonna leave my room and hand my gloom on to some other guy<\/em>,\u201d James sings.
\u201cWhen you\u2019re writing a song, sometimes the muses will visit you and sometimes they don\u2019t<\/em>,\u201d he explains. \u201cWith songwriting, you\u2019re pretty much sitting alone in your room, not necessarily gloomy but you\u2019re trying to make something out of nothing. You really are relying on your wits, and sometimes you\u2019re at your wits\u2019 end when nothing is coming.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The hits have been flowing for James Reyne<\/strong> for more than 40 years. Toon Town Lullaby <\/em><\/strong>coincides with the 40th<\/sup> anniversary of Australian Crawl\u2019s classic debut album, The Boys Light Up<\/em>.As the late-great critic Ed Nimmervoll observed, James\u2019 voice is \u201cas familiar to us as the taste of Vegemite, as essentially Australian\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

James has had 19 Top 40 hits (nine solo, seven with Australian Crawl, and three as part of Company of Strangers) and was inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame in 1996. But his quizzical eye remains firmly fixed on the future. \u201cThat was then, this is now<\/em>,\u201d James notes in \u2018A Little Ol\u2019 Town South Of Bakersfield\u2019. \u201cDon\u2019t make the past your sacred cow<\/em>.\u201d
But James is not afraid to revisit the past every now and then, and share some personal memories. Toon Town Lullaby<\/em><\/strong> includes a heartfelt tribute to James\u2019 best mate, Brad Robinson, \u2018The Tallest Man I Ever Knew\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

James and Brad went to school together and formed Australian Crawl. \u201cIt\u2019s a very personal song,\u201d James says. \u201cThere are a few in-jokes in there that only Brad would get.<\/em>\u201d
And James lets his mate know that he\u2019s still out there, defiant and trying to make sense of the world we\u2019re living in. \u201cWell, I\u2019m still tilting at those windmills<\/em>,\u201d he sings, \u201cand shouting at the rain<\/em>.\u201d
Long may he do so.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Find James Reyne:<\/strong>
Facebook<\/a> \/ Website<\/a> \/  Apple<\/a> \/ Spotify<\/a> \/ Youtube<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Check out the new video here:\u00a0https:\/\/youtu.be\/eGDKzoDi33Q Toon Town Lullaby\u2013 James Reyne\u2019s first studio album in eight…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13222,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23,2],"tags":[1081,1082],"class_list":["post-13221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music-news","category-news","tag-james-reyne","tag-toon-town-lullaby"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13221"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13223,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13221\/revisions\/13223"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}