I just wanna let you know...

Okay usually I don't do two posts one the same artist followed by each other, but since I got Scott Grimes' album Livin' on the run a few days ago and his newest album Drive today I wanna do this one while I am in the right frame of mind for it. Besides I don't think I'll be able to do a better job than right now since I have been listening to the man all day long today.

This is, as I just said, a review of Scott Grimes' album Drive:

Earlier today I tweeted my last review to Grimes and told him I would be doing this review too and he kindly reminded me to consider that this album is a demo record done in his livingroom and so I will do just that.

The album is a demo record, which means it's only contains 7 songs where as Livin' on the run has 15. The other sign that this is a demo record it that the style is way more stripped down that Scott Grimes previous record, but that does not hurt his style or his voice the slightest bit. Besides I actually like "Guerilla" recording as I've heard Alan Doyle of Great Big Sea call songs recorded in livingrooms, dressingrooms and in the back of tour busses. The recording style does not define an album (not in my opinion atleast) the artist does and both Harris (who worked on Drive with Scott) and Grimes are very talented.

Hide is the first song on the album and my opinion also the perfect song to release as a single. This is the song was the second Scott Grimes song I ever heard and it was the one that really made me fall in love his music and voice in the first place. The fact that he uses his friends (look closely and you will spot Russell Crowe along with his sons and his two co-merry men Alan Doyle and Kevin Durand) and fans in the video just makes it even better:

There is a red lining through the lyrics in this album aswell, but it is sadness this time more than it is hope. I don't feel that the persons in these songs are overcome by it by it is something they struggle with and someting that defines if not them then the album. The characters in these songs are trying to look ahead (Hide), to find some hope (Waiting) or just trying to "hide" how low they really feel (Corner pub). This is truely a beautiful record and ranks among my other fav records witch contains artists like Bruce Guthro, Bruce Springsteen, Great Big Sea, Russell Crowe and Katie Melua (I actually think Grimes' corner pub has a bit of a jazzish sound to it). Well done.

I wanna leave you with one of my other fave songs of this album. Listen to it before you head to the store or to Itunes to buy this record:


Oh and by the way I actually wanna leave you guys with one last song. Also by Scott Grimes but it is not on either of the albums, but if you love it as much as I do, you can buy it on itunes.



Cheers everybody, have a good night and thanks for reading my opinions on this great artist.

We were young and wild and hopeless and free

A few days ago I got a new album. It is not new but it is too me and I loved it so much I thought i deserved my attention on this blog. The album is called "Livin' on the run" and is by Scott Grimes.

I have know this guy for quite a while, but I knew him an actor. He played the very funny (not always by choice) Achie Morris in ER, where he did an amazing job and in my opinion only made the show better. I had no idea he was a singer too though untill he appeared in Robin Hood (the 2010 movie) as one of the merry men. Promoting this movie I heard him sing Beautiful Girls (by Sean Kingston) along with Russell Crowe (Robin Longstride), Kevin Durand (Little John) and Alan Doyle (Allan A'Dayle) and it dawned on me it couldn't possible the first time he used his voice for singing so I decided too look him up online and on youtube I found what I was looking for:


This song is amazing and is actually from the album I am doing this post about. Sunset Blvd is a beautiful song with both amazing guitar and piano sounds. This song displays Grimes' voice beautifully and like the other songs on the album the song proves Scott Grimes sings just as well as he acts!

Before doing this post I was listening though the album again and I noticed that alot af the songs has a Bruce Springsteen sound to them, which can never be a bad thing. Actually the first song of the album Livin' on the run (which is also the titel track) even has a Springsteen hommage incorporated:

And all those dreams of singin' to the second row
Baby you were born to run (this line being from the wellknown Springsteen song Born to run)
I got this time upon my pocket, and my love for you
And I'll be having fun

I for one prefer the more Springsteen rock sounding songs one the album to the more pop sounding song as You come around, but there are none of the songs I dislike. The album to me feels whole with a red lining running through it.

This red lining is: Hope, freedom, dreaming and also rememberace. The first songs is very much about living in the moment but this swifts with Carrie that is a is about remembering. Carrie is not the first sad song on the album I saw you is. But this song is about the present to and about letting go of a love eventhough it hurts.

I think all Scott's songs on this album stays true to reality, but there also is a ray of hope of something better in all of them or a dream of something more even in the sad song on the album. The only song that I feel lacks hope is without you. The only song on the album that allows itself to be sad without painting a light in the distant. A song about drowning in sorrow and allowing yourself to hurt.

The song Hollywood sign shows us life on the other side of the Hollywood sign painting a picture of misunderstood people going about their lives but hope is reintroduced in the last line of Four piece band; a song that is otherwise about growing up and it this process forgetting your dreams:

"Then my senses came to me this one fine day
That you had no ties that bind you was all I could pray"

All in all a beautiful album with wonderful melodies, great vocal tracks and impressive and touching lyrics. Well done Grimes.

Listen to this song "Carrie" and go out and buy the album:

Rise and rise again - untill lambs become lions!

Robin Hood was finally released on dvd here in Denmark yesterday. I’ve been looking forward to seeing this movie again for some time now and I finally did last night and it is just as good as I remembered it to be. The movie on the dvd is a director’s cut and 16 min of extra scenes are added with doesn’t hurt the movie at all, on the contrary they make the movie better.

If you haven’t seen the movie yet, It’ll be worth it to check it out. The movie is directed by Ridley Scott and stars great actors like Cate Blanchett, Russell Crowe, Scott Grimes and Kevin Durrand. To those of you who know the Newfoundland band Great Big Sea the movie also stars Alan Doyle and contains a few great songs written by him as well.

Watch it I swear you won’t regret :D