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Named one of Total Guitar's: Top 10 Best New Guitarists in 2018 two years after being named one of Yahoo! Music’s “Top Ten Best New Artist,” Australia’s roots-rock artist, Hamish Anderson follows his uplifting 2021 release Morning Light, with Everything Starts Again, available February 4, 2022.
Hamish Anderson debuted in 2016 with the full-length album Trouble -- produced by Grammy-winner Jim Scott (the title track, Trouble, still appears on Spotify’s Official Blues & Roots Rock Playlist from April 2016). He supported the album with 11 performances at SXSW (2017); opened for BB King, Vintage Trouble, Drive-By Truckers, Jared & The Mill, Low Cut Connie; and toured the US while appearing at US festivals such as BottleRock, Firefly, Echo Park Rising, Mountain Jam, High Sierra, Big Blues Bender, Summerfest, Telluride Blues & Brews Festival and Canada’s RBC Bluesfest Ottawa. He was a Taco Bell “Feed the Beat” artist and was featured on KCRW’s Morning Becomes Eclectic with his single, “U”, which was profiled also on NPR Music’s Heavy Rotation along with the entire album, Trouble.
In January 2018, NPR profiled Hamish’s album -- a year after it was released --on “Here & Now”/DJ Sessions via Anne Litt from KCRW. That summer, he released "No Good” the first single from his sophomore album Out of My Head (which still appears on Nu-Blue Spotify Official Playlist), did a 3-week festival tour in Europe, performed at BottleRock Napa, and toured the East Coast. He ended 2018 by opening for Doyle Bramhall II at a sold-out show in LA. His single, “Breaking Down”, was released in November 2018 on All Things Go where they stated: "the young artist clearly knows the path from nostalgia to the future.”
While “Breaking Down” and “No Good” are superb examples of rollicking rock, they are just one of many genres that Hamish dips his toes into on Out Of My Head. Americana, soul, pop, roots, blues, rock; that’s a lot of ground to cover, but Hamish does it with a natural ease that’s far beyond his years. The mellow (“What You Do To Me,” “Damaged Goods”) and the upbeat (“No Good,” “You Give Me Something”) tracks on this record sit comfortably next to each other; all buoyed by a knack for clever, hook-driven songwriting and a clear, burning passion that drives the music from the first strum to the last.
He opened for Gary Clark Jr. in April 2019 in his home country of Australia and then returned to the US to appear at Beale Street Music Festival in Memphis, TN in May and release his new album. He rounded out 2019 with appearances at Mont Tremblant Music Fest in Quebec, Canada, and a headline tour of Europe.
Hamish returned to Australia in early 2020 to open for George Thorogood & The Destroyers on his sold out tour. Then, while the world pivoted from March on, he stayed busy supporting Out of My Head as it was awarded the Independent Music Award for Best Album - Blues with its fifth radio single, “The Fall” at AAA Non Comm (#60) and Americana (#41). He and his album were also featured in Guitar Player Magazine in the August 2020 Issue which resulted in a cover mention for Hamish.
In 2021, during lockdown in Australia, he returned with a new single, Morning Light -- a first for Hamish in many ways including his first time co-producing (with David Davis, Miguel, Lauren Ruth Ward), first time recording remotely and first time releasing a revealing and upbeat song style in a pandemic!
He looks to start 2022 off right with “Everything Starts Again” available February 4th, 2022.
