Barney Bentall
date: September 22, 2009
label: True North
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mp3 - Hold My Heart
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tracklist:
1. Hold My Heart
2. Sending Out A Message
3. On This Beautiful Night
4. The Inside Passage
5. Face To Face
6. Catch That Train
7. I Never Meant To Make You Cry
8. Papa Henry's Boy
9. She Ran Away
10. Disappearing
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Born in Toronto, Barney Bentall grew up in Calgary, moving to Vancouver in 1978 to try his hand at music. He formed the band Brandon Wolf and released two independent discs and one for A&M Records, all recorded at the infamous Little Mountain Sound. A dedicated family man, he faced a struggle to keep writing and performing music while supporting four children.
In 1988 at the point when a day job seemed imminent, Barney formed The Legendary Hearts and signed with Columbia/CBS Records. Their self‐titled debut sold over 100,000 copies and featured three hit singles in Canada, winning a Juno in 1989.
In 2000, Bentall moved to British Columbia to operate a cattle ranch. After this change of perspective, 2007 brought the solo release of Gift Horse on True North Records.
The Inside Passage is Bentall's seventh studio album. He explains, "I knew the title of the record long before I wrote the song. I wanted to write a collection of songs that were loosely based on moving through life. I grew up on the prairies but we spent our summers out at the coast. We had a boat and we would take it on long trips from the
San Juan Islands to Desolation Sound. I've always felt the pull of those two spaces ‐ the prairies where they rise to meet the Rockies, and the sea as it collides with the Coastal range."
Recorded in the spring and summer of 2008, The Inside Passage was recorded and produced by John Ellis (Ridley Bent, Be Good Tanyas, and Barney's son Dustin Bentall) at his Nashcroft Studios, with Daniel Lapp on fiddle, horns, and piano, Rob Becker on bass and Geoff Hicks on drums.