{"id":148491,"date":"2010-08-11T14:42:56","date_gmt":"2010-08-11T14:42:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/socancom100stg.wpenginepowered.com\/thom-swift-moved-from-being-in-a-band-to-a-successful-solo-songwriter\/"},"modified":"2010-08-11T14:42:56","modified_gmt":"2010-08-11T14:42:56","slug":"thom-swift-moved-from-being-in-a-band-to-a-successful-solo-songwriter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uat.socan.com\/fr\/thom-swift-moved-from-being-in-a-band-to-a-successful-solo-songwriter\/","title":{"rendered":"Thom Swift moved from being in a band to a successful solo songwriter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Les traductions pour les articles avant l\u2019automne 2013 ne sont pas disponibles pour le moment.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Thom Swift<\/strong> laughs when he thinks back to winning the 2008 Maple Blues Award for New Artist of the Year. \u201cI\u2019m sure a lot of people were looking for this young, beaming face,\u201d he says, poking gentle fun at himself, \u201cand instead this old guy crawled out of the crowd.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s because, although his solo career may be a relatively new venture, Swift is hardly a musical newcomer. His solid reputation was established playing finger-style guitar with the blues-jazz group Hot Toddy Trio for more than 12 years. Together they released nine records and toured extensively.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>But when the group decided take a break, Swift says he was \u201cforced through another door. I wanted to continue what I was doing,\u201d he says of the transition to solo work, \u201cso it was a no-brainer.\u201d Still, Swift, who has been based in Halifax for the last five years, admits the change was challenging. \u201cI think on the one hand, it was a little frightening not to go through the door with the guys I\u2019d been hanging out with for so long \u2014 but on the other hand, it was great. It was liberating. I was the master of my own destiny.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It was a gamble that paid off. Swift\u2019s first solo album, <em>Into the Dirt <\/em>(2007), which was produced by Charles Austin (who has also produced albums by <strong>Joel Plaskett<\/strong>, <strong>Buck 65<\/strong> and <strong>Matt Mays<\/strong>), won him an impressive array of hardware, everything from an East Coast Music Award for Blues Recording of the Year to the Galaxie Rising Star prize and two Music Nova Scotia Awards.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Though Swift\u2019s rich, textured songs straddle genres (\u201cI\u2019ve always been in a bunch,\u201d he says with a laugh, \u201cI\u2019ve never really dealt with borders\u201d), when it comes to songwriting Swift says he is always compelled by truth. \u201cThat\u2019s where it all starts from,\u201d he says, \u201cit has got to be real \u2014 that\u2019s a rule I have in my life. I don\u2019t have anything to do with anything that isn\u2019t real.\u201d Swift, who recently became a father, says his inspiration generally comes from the day-to-day. \u201cI write about the things I\u2019ve seen and heard, same as everyone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>His second album, <em>blue sky day<\/em>, was released in February and has already been embraced by the rock, folk and blues worlds. Though he admits <em>Into the Dirt<\/em> was \u201ca little darker,\u201d <em>blue sky day<\/em> reflects Swift\u2019s current state of mind. \u201cThe stuff I have going on in my life right now is very positive on all fronts,\u201d he says, a smile creeping into his voice. \u201cIt\u2019s a good time in life right now.\u201d Then he pauses before stating what feels wonderfully obvious:\u00a0 \u201cIt seems like there is a lot of blue sky for this album.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The challenge of change<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-non-categorise"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uat.socan.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uat.socan.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uat.socan.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uat.socan.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uat.socan.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uat.socan.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148491\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uat.socan.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uat.socan.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uat.socan.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}