“Spring” is the first in a series of season themed EPs set to be released this year from folk-rock ensemble extraordinaire The Great Outdoors. This ambitious project follows up the acclaimed 2007 release, “Food, Booze, Booze and Entertainment,” and introduces Steve Wells as a second songwriter.
The Seasons EPs are meant to capture the beauty of the changing seasons and all that defines those glorious times of transition, hope, and new beginnings. Recorded at Adam Nation’s own East Van Eden Studios, the Spring EP expresses feelings such as that first sweet waft of newly-budding cherry blossoms creeping into your nostrils, or a thick, luscious lawn between your toes at the beginning of backyard barbeque season.
The Great Outdoors will continue to weave their electric and eclectic tales and tunes into musical mosaics of summer, autumn, and winter. All the while winning over audiences, and establishing themselves as one of the premier Canadian acts.
Press Reaction For Food, Booze and Entertainment (2007)
“Dream child of multi-talented songster Adam Nation, this eclectic folk-rock project has become a catch-all filter of sorts through which numerous West coast musicians have distilled extended workshops and jam sessions into one cohesive collection. Nation’s love of anything with strings shines through on each track. From flamenco to steel guitar, he shifts styles and instruments with natural ease as he manoeuvres banjo and ukulele riffs around his tall and sometimes torrid tales. The Great Outdoors beckons you to join its bonfire and then wraps you in honeyed tones that warm your spirit like a wool blanket and turn your bones to liquid like a hot toddy. “ FFWD (Calgary, Canada)
“His ability to write a melody is almost shocking. If Jack Johnson or Ted Lennon played The Boys at the Shop during a show, thousands of people would download the ukulele ditty the next day. Chekhov and I could easily find its way into a Weakerthans set.” Herohill
“This project from Vancouver’s Adam Nation is so intimate and undeniably Canadian, it’s easy to close your eyes and feel the rocking chair underneath you, the heat of a fire on your face, and a merry – if slightly disorderly and dishevelled – group of friends crowded into a living room studio recording the 11 folky songs on the album. The Vancouver Sun
“Nation has found that seamless delivery that many musicians try their entire lives to achieve. Songs filled with Canadiana, from cold cars and prairie winters to East Van restaurants and getting a blue collar drunk-on, are all laid out with banjos, acoustic guitars, ukuleles, trumpets, fiddles and goose-bump harmonies. Cameos by Axl Rose and Jimi Hendrix help it all to make perfect sense.” Nerve Magazine (Vancouver)
Food, Booze, and Entertainment comes off as one of the more compelling folk-pop releases to come out of Vancouver in quite a while. That’s saying something” Discorder (Vancouver, Canada)
