1.TheFirst Song I Wrote
The first song I wrote was called ‘The Loneliest Boy In The World’. I wrote it with my best friend from high school Bentley Rumble; when we were lads we had a band called Holly Golightly. I still play that song at shows and may play it at the Marrickville Bowlo on Saturday.
2.The Last Song I Released
My new album Twice I Fell Down Once gets released on Friday April 7. It was recorded with my band The Elizabethans in Los Angeles in 2016 and it was mixed in Tel Aviv, Israel late 2016. My last two albums were more of the singer-songwriter with extra musicians to help out, and this one is more of a band feel and is my favourite. It has been getting a few spins on community radio in Melbourne and Sydney over the last week or so and I am very thankful to 2SER and 3RRR for supporting the record.
3.Songwriting Secrets
Carry a notebook and a recorder, and don’t worry if everyone doesn’t like or get what you do.
4.The Song That Makes Me Proud
‘I Still Call Australia Home’ by Peter Allen – it’s a beautiful song and is known all around the world. I have been living in the USA for over a decade and it’s funny what makes you get the tingles about home when you are living away. Whenever this song gets played it makes me think of all things I love about Australia – the outback and Uluru, the Harbour Bridge, and inner city Newtown and Fitzroy.
5.The Song That Changed My Life
I was at a dinner party last week in Katherine and someone asked what my favourite song was, and I said ‘Black Is The Colour’ (it’s an old Scottish/Irish folk song). My friend Jane played me a version of this by Luka Bloom; I had never heard it and became obsessed about the dark haired girl who so inspired the writer of this song hundreds of years ago.
[D Henry Fenton photo by Stuart Spence]
Twice I Fell Down Onceis out Friday April 7 through Dark Eyed Junco/MGM; and D Henry Fenton plays theMarrickville Bowling Club onSaturday April 1.
