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Whitley


There is more than one artist with this name, including: 1) Whitley is Australian singer and songwriter Brian Laurence Greenwood. 2) Whitley was an American acoustic pop band from Wichita, KS, that began in November of 2005 and ended in June of 2006. 1) Whitley is Australian singer and songwriter Brian Laurence Greenwood from Melbourne, Australia. Whitley is said to blend organic acoustic flavours with electronic overtones creating songs with hushed, whimsical tales of love and loss. Whitley’s previous incarnations in hardcore and punk bands were tempered when he was dragged along to see alt-country stars Keiran Cane and Kevin Welsh by a friend’s father. He had an epiphany and was converted to the “songs that made sense” and started listening to traditional country. The result of these influences has produced a folktronic sound all of his own. Whitley first met producer and collaborator, Nick Huggins, from watching him play the Mississippi folk instrument the steel lap guitar (dobro). The friendship evolved through a shared love of music and Nick was the natural choice to work on the album. The pair took a pragmatic approach to recording, decamping to the surrounds of Nick’s family home in Point Lonsdale converting the old house into a studio with a sleeping barracks out the back. Instead of a rigid schedule and time restraints, recording revolved around the Geelong footy fixture and the surfing tides. “We planned the whole album around the footy and surfing...

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