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Bob Evans & Adalita: Good Evans It's Xmas! soundcheck BobEvansMusic 472 views Bob and Adalita doing their soundcheck before the first show of Good Evans It's Xmas! At Lizottes, Kincumber.
Good Evans, It's an Xmas Photo Contest BobEvansMusic 222 views Bob Evans has just announced a series of Xmas shows this December with Adalita! Good Evans, It's Xmas! (A not so silent night with Bob and Adalita) will occur from Dec 15 ...
Bob Evans and Keith Urban - "Better Be Home Soon" BobEvansMusic 576 views Keith Urban invited Bob Evans back up on stage for a duet of Crowded House's "Better Be Home Soon" at the final Australian show of his World Together Tour in Brisbane.
Bob Evans - Brother O Brother BobEvansMusic 1,891 views Brother O Brother, the one politically driven track from Bob Evans' 2009 album "Goodnight, Bull Creek!" Some words of insight from the director, Sean Gilligan: In 1963...
Bob Evans discusses "Brother O Brother" BobEvansMusic 535 views "Brother O Brother", the one politically driven song on Bob Evans' "Goodnight, Bull Creek!"
Bob Evans discusses "Power of Speech" BobEvansMusic 351 views "Power of Speech" is the much loved and quite unique bossa nova track on Bob's 3rd album "Goodnight, Bull Creek!"
Bob Evans - "Hand Me Downs" Making Of BobEvansMusic 729 views The making of the stop motion film clip for Bob Evans' third single "Hand Me Downs" off "Goodnight, Bull Creek!"
Bob Evans - Hand Me Downs (official) BobEvansMusic 12,700 views Bob Evans' third single "Hand Me Downs" from "Goodnight, Bull Creek!"
Bob Evans - Behind the scenes "Hand Me Downs" video clip pt 2 BobEvansMusic 327 views Bob Evans on the set of "Hand Me Downs" video clip. "Hand Me Downs" is the 3rd single from his album "Goodnight, Bull Creek!"
Bob Evans - Behind the scenes of "Hand Me Downs" video clip BobEvansMusic 340 views Bob Evans on the set of the "Hand Me Downs" video clip. "Hand Me Downs" is the third single from his album "Goodnight, Bull Creek!"

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This is my rock album. Im saying goodbye to the suburbs.
- Kevin Mitchell

Strange things happen in Nashville, Tennessee. People forget who they are. Dreams come true. Fingers get covered in blisters. All of these things happened to Kevin Mitchell, erstwhile front man of much-loved, Perth indie band Jebediah, now an ARIA award-winning, singer-songwriter performing under the name Bob Evans, during the making of his third album, Goodnight, Bull Creek!

Bob Evans is the name Mitchell uses to record and perform his critically acclaimed albums, Suburban Kid, Suburban Songbook and his upcoming album Goodnight, Bull Creek! This time, however, he is leaving the landscape of his suburban childhood behind.
My last record was very much an open love letter to my partner, he says. I knew I could only make that kind of record once in a lifetime and Im so proud of it. But this time, I wanted to express my feelings about the outside world a little bit more. This record is a little bit deeper and richer.

Bull Creek is the name of the southern suburb of Perth where Mitchell grew up. Its a very ordinary little suburb filled with little brown brick houses. Mitchell says the suburb represents a lot of things he was using on the last album in terms of innocence and naivety and simplicity - all the things he associates with his childhood. The first song, Someone So Much, states Mitchells intention to leave the suburbs behind even though he was expected to do one more suburban record. Its my intention to venture out into the world and express something greater than my own little existence, he explains.
Teaming up again with Songbook producer Brad Jones (Josh Rouse, Yo La Tengo, Sheryl Crow) and recording in the same Nashville studio, Mitchell set out to make a rock album but hold onto the charm of the established Bob Evans sound. Jones encouraged him to throw out the click track and record all the songs live with a group of crack Nashville musicians including drummer Ken Coomer (ex-Wilco), who also played on Suburban Songbook, in-demand guitarist Will Kimbrough (voted Americana Music Association Instrumentalist Of The Year in 2004), Jones on bass, and vocalist Melissa Mathers.
Mitchell says hes proud of the albums hes made but didnt want to be labelled just another singer/songwriter. Instead, he wanted to surprise people by making more of a band record this time. There is a lot more electricity running through this record. We got four people in room and they played live in the way a good rock album is supposed to be made but seldom is these days. Its a band album yet there is no band.
Fans of the singer-songwriter greats - Elvis Costello, Elliott Smith, Neil Finn, Tim Rogers, even Neil Diamond, will find much to admire in Goodnight, Bull Creek! The albums sound is reassuringly familiar yet bolstered with sophisticated arrangements and instrumentation including organ, flutes, strings, a toy piano and Moog.
One track, Power Of Speech is a smooth and sexy Bossa nova tune.
When I first heard Bossa nova, I fell in love with it instantly and I knew I wanted to write a song like that. Its completely tongue-in-cheek but the music is serious. I dont have any classical guitar training so I got blisters on my fingers trying to learn all those jazz chords, Mitchell says.
Another song, Pasha Bulker, is inspired by the grounding of the massive bulk carrier on Nobbys beach in Newcastle but is fuelled by Mitchells feelings of being lost at sea during a bout of depression in 2007.
Brother O Brother began as Mitchells thoughts on Sorry Day and grew into a song about inequality in the world.
Its A Beginning is an upbeat pop song that nods to The Cure, and Everything Goes, the beautiful final track on the album, is an ode to life moving on.
Lyrically this album is heavier and deeper than the last record. Its more twitchy and uncomfortable and maybe a little more restless, which sums up the way Mitchell was feeling leading up to making it. But it maintains the gentle beauty and harmonies of the Bob Evans sound loved by fans on Suburban Songbook.
The next few months will be about releasing and touring Goodnight, Bull Creek!
I just want to get out on the road and play shows and do what I love the best. I made the record in July and August last year [2008] so its been a long wait. Im hanging for it to come out and start performing.

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