Lachlan Bryan has driven past Goulburn “a hundred times before, but I’ve never played in the town itself”.
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“Which is funny,” he continued, “because we’ve toured all over the world, in Europe and America.”
Bryan, a country music star alongside fellow band member Damian Cafarella, is bringing a double act to the Southern Railway Hotel this Thursday, January 17.
The award-winning artists will duet in Goulburn (without the full band from Lachlan Bryan & The Wilde) for the first time, ever.
The Melbourne-based pair will play a set of music drawn from the band’s record, released earlier this year, Some Girls (Quite) Like Country Music.
The record has been heavily influenced by country music legend Willie Nelson, and Leonard Cohen.
“We’ll be doing a duo show that we’ve been working on for a couple of years,” said Bryan.
The set will open at 7.30pm to showcase what Bryan describes as “Americana, which is a cross between folk, rock and roll, country and soul music.”
The music is a blend of multiple genres that the band has seen grow in popularity in Australia over the past few years.
“We’ve been playing it for about 10 years and we’ve noticed more and more people are listening to it, which is good for us,” said Bryan.
The audience will hear the popular album-opener I Hope That I’m Wrong, which sets the tone for the album of storytelling songs.
“It’s a little bit more of a social commentary piece, which is not normally what we do, but we’ve had a good response to it,” said Bryan.
Bryan plays the majority of the album behind the piano in what he describes as his most mature work yet.
The band tells more complicated stories than past albums, on which they mostly sang about girls and relationships.
“When we started the band we were in our 20’s,” said Bryan. “We’re now well into our 30’s, so our songs are a lot more adult than when we were younger.”
The album is a change from past records such as Black Coffee, which won the full band a Golden Guitar for ‘Alternative Country Album of the Year’.
Despite having performed in Canberra, Young and the Southern Highlands before, the band has never had a gig in Goulburn.
Bryan and Cafarella run a recording studio together and are friends above everything. As country music creators, they like to tour rural and regional towns like Goulburn. “We’re excited to meet some locals and have conversations with people we wouldn’t have met otherwise,” said Bryan.
The duo will continue travelling north to perform at Tamworth's Country Music Festival for the 10th time.