City and Colour

The voice is unmistakable – immediately identifiable by those that know it and intensely intriguing to those that don’t. It belongs to Dallas Green, perhaps better known as the man who writes, records, and performs under the moniker of City and Colour. Already renowned across Canada thanks to the success of his previous two full length albums – 2005’s Sometimes and 2008’s Bring Me Your Love – and a live CD/DVD combo released between the two, Green’s third studio effort, Little Hell (released in June 2011), propelled his profile to a new plateau. The album debuted at #1 on the Top 200 SoundScan Chart in Canada, #2 in Australia, #28 in the USA and in the UK Top 40. It has achieved Platinum certification in Canada and recently received Gold certification in Australia. Little Hell garnered him his 2nd Songwriter of the Year JUNO Award, his first in 2009 for Bring Me Your Love. The effort shares its title with one of its tracks – a song that explores the little heavens and little hells that comprise a relationship and, as Green explains, “the things you do to get through them both.” It’s a theme explored throughout the album – the balance of both the blissful and harrowing experiences that come with relationships and life as a whole. Says Green: “You have to go through those little hells to get to the really great parts of love and life.”