Tones Behind The Tracks
Artist: John Smith
Album: The Fray (Commoner Records/Thirty Tigers)
“I’m really happy with it,”John Smith declares at the beginning of our conversation about his new album,
The Fray. The title refers to recent turbulent times in John’s life, with the cover summing up everything with a bright yellow flower that’s seen better days. But writing and recording the music seems to have been a cathartic experience for the singer-songwriter.“I went with that brash yellow because it’s optimistic, it’s a happy colour. The whole time my wife has been calling the record ‘Sad songs, happy man’.”
creation was fast, with John and co-producer Sam Lakeman spending only a week at Peter Gabriel’s studios
