Harvey’s Bar: The Backyard Sessions
Adam Harvey is at home in his bar with an acoustic guitar in a part of the world he likes to refer to as The Peoples’ Republic of Bateau Bay. It’s here Harvey gathers up friends and neighbors for an after hours sing-along with a few beers and his trademark one liners.
The big man is self effecting, but the accolades he’s received over his two decade career as a country artist are a mile long. He’s clocked up sales of over half a million albums, with eight Golden Guitars to his name and has a string of gold and platinum discs to his credit.
Harvey has made some mighty fine records along the way: the staples Both Sides Now, Cowboy Dreams and the recent Family Life are among them and then there’s the much loved collaboration with Troy Cassar-Daly The Great Country Songbook. Now he can add one more to the list, ‘Harvey’s Bar: The Backyard Sessions.’
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‘Harvey’s Bar’ was recorded at home with Adam literally surrounded by friends. The party was in full swing, the one liners were hitting the mark and the ‘record’ button in the studio was definitely ‘on’! The finished album shows a man at the peak of his powers: relaxed and in celebratory mode. The results are infectious.
