{"title":"Tami Neilson","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"tami-neilson-kingmaker-royal-yellow-vinyl-vinyl","title":"Kingmaker (ROYAL YELLOW VINYL) (Vinyl)","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom being cradled as a baby in the arms of Roy Orbison, to performing a duet with Willie Nelson, you would think that Tami Neilson lived a country music fantasy life. However, in between these monumental occurrences, The Neilson Family Band were having to busk in the streets to put food on the table, performing gospel concerts to prisoners, and roaring down the road in an exploding RV to open for Johnny Cash, which Tami managed to do, at 18, in her pajamas. And then Tami left to start her own family on the other side of the world in New Zealand, where she now resides. Her busking chops took her to the streets of Auckland looking for her big break. From open mic nights to clubs, to headlining theaters and major festivals, Tami has now won almost every NZ music award possible. 2022 now brings Tami‚Äôs 5th album, \"Kingmaker\". Recorded at Neil Finn‚Äôs Roundhead Studios, Kingmaker was born of the pandemic. A moment when women were struggling. Disproportionately affected by furlough: a ‚Äúshe-cession,‚Äù analysts termed it. Women put their dreams and careers on hold to care for their families. The songs of \"Kingmaker\" question gender roles and expectations of women in society. She shines a line on the misogyny that pervades the music industry. She sings of the underestimation of women, of their strength, power, and resilience in the face of structural and cultural barriers to their full participation in society. Tami‚Äôs story is at the center of this feminist tapestry: from singing with Kitty Wells at the age of 10, slipping demo tapes into the laundry bags of stars to now singing with Willie Nelson on \"Kingmaker\" -- from humble beginnings to success, on her own terms. Tami Neilson is a game changer, a cage shaker, a Kingmaker.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1 Kingmaker\r 2 Careless Women\r 3 Baby,You're a Gun\r 4 King of Country Music\r 5 Beyond the Stars (featuring Willie Nelson)\r 6 Green Peaches\r 7 Mama's Talkin\r 8 I Can Forget\r 9 The Grudge\r 10 Ain't My Job\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFormat Detail: LP Pressed on Royal Yellow vinyl with covermount marketing sticker\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFormat: Vinyl\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGenre: Country\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Tami Neilson","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42026166288465,"sku":"KRAJ9X-DB7H-NM","price":23.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0620\/5023\/8545\/files\/tami-neilson-kingmaker-royal-yellow-vinyl_ilCsW.jpg?v=1759473173"},{"product_id":"tami-neilson-chickaboom-crystal-ball-clear-vinyl-vinyl","title":"CHICKABOOM! 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Billboard got lost at \"Intoxicating\".  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe couldn't agree more. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCatch Tami on tour this year across America and around the globe.  \"To see her live, standing straight up and mowing down listeners is to see a musical wonder of the world.\" - Americana Highways, February 2020.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e CHICKABOOM! is in stores now.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCall Your Mama\r Hey, Bus Driver!\r Ten Tonne Truck\r Queenie Queenie\r You Were Mine\r 16 Miles of Chain\r Tell Me That You Love Me\r Any Fool With A Heart\r Sister Mavis\r Sleep\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eInternal ID: JITRE\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eReleased: 7\/3\/20\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFormat Detail: LP Second pressing - on \"Crystal Ball\" clear vinyl, with marketing sticker on front cover\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFormat: Vinyl\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGenre: Rock\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Tami Neilson","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42026289102929,"sku":"FNYZ8X-8SX3-JF","price":23.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0620\/5023\/8545\/files\/tami-neilson-chickaboom-crystal-ball-clear-vinyl_dqhfp.jpg?v=1762481988"},{"product_id":"tami-neilson-chickaboom-buttercream-colored-vinyl-vinyl","title":"CHICKABOOM! (Buttercream colored vinyl) (Vinyl)","description":"Tami Neilson - CHICKABOOM! (Buttercream colored vinyl) (Vinyl) \u003cbr\u003eBarcode: 623339913010 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eNo one forgets the first time they saw Tami Neilson. She can hush a room with an original song that channels the hurting spirit of Patsy Cline or the sensuality of Peggy Lee, or bring the audience to its feet on a rockabilly raver.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe‚Äôs an artist with real range, whose powerful voice can take on big ballads, golden-age country, heartfelt Gospel, soul-infused R\u0026amp;B, Western swing, even old-style rock ‚Äòn‚Äô roll. Tami encompasses them all and is a personality-powered cyclonic force of nature in stylishly retro attire, long lashes and a stacked-high beehive.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eOf her new album‚Äôs title, CHICKABOOM!, Tami explains, ‚ÄúI wanted to write an album of punchy little songs, popping firecrackers that, when stripped back to nothing but a guitar, percussion and two voices, would still go boom!‚Äù  The new collection brings much personal and family history to the table. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTami grew up performing across North America with the Neilson Family Band, working alongside greats such as Johnny Cash, Tanya Tucker, and Kitty Wells. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSubsequently, Tami fell in love with a New Zealander, moved to the bottom of the world and began her solo career without the support of the family. Her early records saw her in a self-created territory between mainstream country and alternative country, with awards in New Zealand for albums that added breadth to her ‚Äúcountry singer‚Äù label: Best Female Artist, Best Country Album, Best Country Song, an APRA Silver Scroll (songwriting) award and Album of the Year nominations. Her Dynamite! album of 2014 received rave reviews in Britain‚Äôs MOJO and the Guardian named it a Top 10 Best Country Music Album. Tami‚Äôs songs appeared on the Netflix series Wanted and the terrestrial TV series Nashville.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTami Neilson‚Äôs singing and writing is too big to contain, as HMV Canada noted: ‚ÄúThere are singers and then there is Tami Neilson, for whom the word singer just isn‚Äôt big enough.‚Äù\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe road has now led to CHICKABOOM!, which is something different again, and even more personal. ‚ÄúIn the past year, I started to notice something,‚Äù she says. ‚ÄúThe artists I would spend time with backstage at festivals, the ones I gravitated to the most and followed on social media ... artists like the Secret Sisters, Shovels \u0026amp; Rope, Kasey Chambers, Brandi Carlile ... they all had family performing with them.  When you tour away from loved ones, it makes a world of difference to have part of your village with you on the road. Not to mention, nothing can come close to that special blend of blood harmonies and silent communication that only comes from being onstage with a person for over 30 years. Family has always been a huge part my music-writing, recording and creating with me, but I wanted family on this project and on the road with me again.‚Äù Brother Jay flew to Auckland, New Zealand from Toronto to record a selection of new songs that have unmistakable sibling magic and harmonies. ‚ÄúI don‚Äôt think he quite understands what he‚Äôs gotten himself into but now the album‚Äôs comin\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCall Your Mama\r Hey, Bus Driver!\r Ten Tonne Truck\r Queenie, Queenie\r You Were Mine\r 16 Miles of Chain\r Tell Me That You Love Me\r Any Fool With A Heart\r Sister Mavis\r Sleep\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eReleased: 2\/14\/20\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFormat Detail: LP coloured vinyl\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFormat: Vinyl\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGenre: Rock\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Tami Neilson","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42026634608721,"sku":"9FCMX5-2KI0-IC","price":23.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0620\/5023\/8545\/files\/tami-neilson-chickaboom-buttercream-colored-vinyl_HrV31.jpg?v=1759473943"},{"product_id":"tami-neilson-dont-be-afraid-vinyl","title":"Don't Be Afraid (Vinyl)","description":"Tami Neilson - Don't Be Afraid (Vinyl) \u003cbr\u003eBarcode: 623339910613 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"It's the most personal album I've ever written, and it is very daunting to put such a raw, exposed, vulnerable part of yourself out there,\" remarks Tami Neilson of her new album Don't Be Afraid. Don't Be Afraid was nearly left unfinished. With two songs completed and six weeks left to write Tami Neilson unexpectedly lost her father, the patriarch of The Neilson Family band who Tami had toured across Canada with as a young girl opening for the likes of Johnny Cash. It was with her mother and brother's encouragement that she finished the record as a way of honouring her dad. \"I actually inadvertently wrote the title track (without realizing it would be for the album) the week Dad died. 'Don't Be Afraid' was the last song Dad wrote, while in the hospital. He had written the melody, lyrics and everything, but he was on oxygen and could barely breathe to speak. He told me that it was driving him crazy that he had this new song stuck in his head, but had no way of offloading it. It's an awful feeling, I know, so I said I would bring him in his guitar so he could play it and I'd record it on my phone. He did a verse, so I got the melody, but then his levels dropped dramatically (that's the hidden track on the album, Dad's Demo'), but we didn't get the chorus, or the melody for the chorus.\" Don't Be Afraid finds the soul taking precedence over the country as Tami found herself listening to a lot of gospel around the time of her father's death and finding a kinship with the legendary singer Mavis Staples: \"I've always been a massive Staples fan. I had ordered the new Pops album, it was released days before Dad died, and I ordered it in Canada so I could take it into the hospital for him to listen to. It arrived the day after he died, and of course I sobbed about that, but I will always be so grateful for that album helping me get through that grieving process.\" Recorded in Ben Edwards' New Zealand Sitting Room studio, the songs were again recorded live, the musicians all in the room playing together. The album features Delaney Davidson and all the boys that were on Dynamite! including harmonies from Marlon Williams on the soon-to-be classic 'Lonely'. The album features a Tina Turner throwback, 'Holy Moses', the swinging country of 'Only Tears', a bluesy swagger in `So Far Away' and the southern soul of 'Burn My Body'. The album is bookended by the title track, including the haunting hidden demo track sung by Tami's father. \"There are a lot of reasons I chose Don't Be Afraid as the title, and one of them is that, musically, as an artist it's a departure for me. There are definite moments where I have had to go, 'Don't be afraid of this, this is who you are,- Neilson says. \"This album is the guts of me. I guess 'departure' is the wrong word because it's all the same palette and same family, but whereas Dynamite! was a lot of light, bright colours, Don't Be Afraid is deeper, richer colours - still in that same family but a different level.\" Tami moved to Ne\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFormat Detail: LP w\/ DL\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eReleased: 9\/30\/16\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFormat: Vinyl\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGenre: Country\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Tami Neilson","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42026635886673,"sku":"Y6AT4S-2OT8-RW","price":23.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0620\/5023\/8545\/files\/tami-neilson-dont-be-afraid_OWhhG.jpg?v=1762484412"},{"product_id":"tami-neilson-dynamite-cd","title":"Dynamite! (CD)","description":"\u003cp\u003eWith a soulful voice straight from the golden age of country and rockabilly music, Tami Neilson has been described as ‚ÄúA red-hot honky-tonker, somewhere between Patsy Cline and Wanda Jackson with perhaps just a little bit of Peggy Lee sophistication.‚Äù (‚ÄìNick Bollinger, NZ National Radio).Singing her heart out along endless roads and stages, from her days as a young girl in Canada touring with the Neilson Family band, opening for the likes of Johnny Cash, to her full blossoming in New Zealand as a formidable talent in her own right, Tami Neilson has won the Tui Award (New Zealand Grammy) for each of her past four albums. Tami has been awarded the APRA Silver Scroll, New Zealand‚Äôs most prestigious music award for excellence in songwriting, for her song ‚ÄúWalk (Back To Your Arms)‚Äù. The award was previously won by Lorde for Royals. Dynamite! reached #1 on the NZ Music Charts, iTunes Country Charts and the New Zealand Independent Music Chart.Tami is thrilled to finally have the album come out in her home country: ‚ÄúI am over the moon to finally have my album released where my life and my music originated, the home where my heart is constantly pulled like a magnet, even from the other side of the world. I‚Äôve been hugely blessed to have New Zealand embrace my music and regard it with enough merit to include me among their esteemed musicians, but, have always hoped that someday I‚Äôd be heard by the people and the country who made me and shaped me and gave me the confidence to fly in the first place‚Äù\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFormat Detail: CD Digipack\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFormat: CD\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGenre: Country\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Tami Neilson","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42027219255377,"sku":"1NSGVQ-4NYF-OT","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0620\/5023\/8545\/files\/tami-neilson-dynamite_oPIT3.jpg?v=1759474866"},{"product_id":"tami-neilson-sassafrass-cd","title":"Sassafrass! (CD)","description":"\u003cp\u003eShe's back, the gloves are off and she is coming out swinging. Tami Neilson won't be staying New Zealand's secret for much longer. For the past decade, the Canadian-born, New Zealand-based singer\/songwriter has been the queen of her adopted homeland's country and roots music scenes. She has picked up a handful of Best Country Album awards at the New Zealand Music Awards and won the prestigious APRA Silver Scroll for excellence in songwriting.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith her new album, SASSAFRASS!, Neilson takes a giant step forward. On this 11-track knock-out, she places a heavier emphasis on soul music without abandoning her country and rockabilly roots. Neilson conjures up a wonderfully retro style that sounds like it could be a lost gem from the late '50s or early '60s; however, beneath the classic veneer are frank, highly relevant lyrics.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSassafrass, a slang word for a sassy person who isn't afraid to speak her mind, serves as a perfect title for this album. The songs, Neilson divulges, reflect her developing a low tolerance for bullsh*t after years of encountering sexism in her life. They were also influenced by her being a mother of two young boys as well as by the death of her father, who led the family's band, the Neilsons, which was popular in Canada during the '90s. Neilson characterizes her new album as a mouthy lovechild of the current social climate and my own experiences as a woman, mother and daughter.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1. Stay Outta My Business\r 2. Bananas\r 3. Diamond Ring\r 4. A Woman's Pain\r 5. Devil in a Dress\r 6. One Thought of You\r 7. Miss Jones\r 8. Smoking Gun\r 9. Kitty Cat\r 10. Manitoba Sunrise at Motel 6\r 11. 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However, in between these monumental occurrences, The Neilson Family Band were having to busk in the streets to put food on the table, performing gospel concerts to prisoners, and roaring down the road in an exploding RV to open for Johnny Cash, which Tami managed to do, at 18, in her pajamas. And then Tami left to start her own family on the other side of the world in New Zealand, where she now resides. Her busking chops took her to the streets of Auckland looking for her big break. From open mic nights to clubs, to headlining theaters and major festivals, Tami has now won almost every NZ music award possible. 2022 now brings Tami‚Äôs 5th album, \"Kingmaker\". Recorded at Neil Finn‚Äôs Roundhead Studios, Kingmaker was born of the pandemic. A moment when women were struggling. Disproportionately affected by furlough: a ‚Äúshe-cession,‚Äù analysts termed it. Women put their dreams and careers on hold to care for their families. The songs of \"Kingmaker\" question gender roles and expectations of women in society. She shines a line on the misogyny that pervades the music industry. She sings of the underestimation of women, of their strength, power, and resilience in the face of structural and cultural barriers to their full participation in society. Tami‚Äôs story is at the center of this feminist tapestry: from singing with Kitty Wells at the age of 10, slipping demo tapes into the laundry bags of stars to now singing with Willie Nelson on \"Kingmaker\" -- from humble beginnings to success, on her own terms. Tami Neilson is a game changer, a cage shaker, a Kingmaker.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1 Kingmaker\r 2 Careless Women\r 3 Baby,You're a Gun\r 4 King of Country Music\r 5 Beyond the Stars (featuring Willie Nelson)\r 6 Green Peaches\r 7 Mama's Talkin\r 8 I Can Forget\r 9 The Grudge\r 10 Ain't My Job\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFormat Detail: CD Digipak with pull-out poster\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFormat: CD\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGenre: Country\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Tami Neilson","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42027438080081,"sku":"GVWKLG-G8VL-KB","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0620\/5023\/8545\/files\/tami-neilson-kingmaker_PkYbD.jpg?v=1762488389"},{"product_id":"tami-neilson-chickaboom-cd","title":"CHICKABOOM! (CD)","description":"\u003cp\u003eNo one forgets the first time they saw Tami Neilson. She can hush a room with an original song that channels the hurting spirit of Patsy Cline or the sensuality of Peggy Lee, or bring the audience to its feet on a rockabilly raver.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe‚Äôs an artist with real range, whose powerful voice can take on big ballads, golden-age country, heartfelt Gospel, soul-infused R\u0026amp;B, Western swing, even old-style rock ‚Äòn‚Äô roll. Tami encompasses them all and is a personality-powered cyclonic force of nature in stylishly retro attire, long lashes and a stacked-high beehive.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eOf her new album‚Äôs title, CHICKABOOM!, Tami explains, ‚ÄúI wanted to write an album of punchy little songs, popping firecrackers that, when stripped back to nothing but a guitar, percussion and two voices, would still go boom!‚Äù  The new collection brings much personal and family history to the table. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTami grew up performing across North America with the Neilson Family Band, working alongside greats such as Johnny Cash, Tanya Tucker, and Kitty Wells. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSubsequently, Tami fell in love with a New Zealander, moved to the bottom of the world and began her solo career without the support of the family. Her early records saw her in a self-created territory between mainstream country and alternative country, with awards in New Zealand for albums that added breadth to her ‚Äúcountry singer‚Äù label: Best Female Artist, Best Country Album, Best Country Song, an APRA Silver Scroll (songwriting) award and Album of the Year nominations. Her Dynamite! album of 2014 received rave reviews in Britain‚Äôs MOJO and the Guardian named it a Top 10 Best Country Music Album. Tami‚Äôs songs appeared on the Netflix series Wanted and the terrestrial TV series Nashville.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTami Neilson‚Äôs singing and writing is too big to contain, as HMV Canada noted: ‚ÄúThere are singers and then there is Tami Neilson, for whom the word singer just isn‚Äôt big enough.‚Äù\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe road has now led to CHICKABOOM!, which is something different again, and even more personal. ‚ÄúIn the past year, I started to notice something,‚Äù she says. ‚ÄúThe artists I would spend time with backstage at festivals, the ones I gravitated to the most and followed on social media ... artists like the Secret Sisters, Shovels \u0026amp; Rope, Kasey Chambers, Brandi Carlile ... they all had family performing with them.  When you tour away from loved ones, it makes a world of difference to have part of your village with you on the road. Not to mention, nothing can come close to that special blend of blood harmonies and silent communication that only comes from being onstage with a person for over 30 years. Family has always been a huge part my music-writing, recording and creating with me, but I wanted family on this project and on the road with me again.‚Äù Brother Jay flew to Auckland, New Zealand from Toronto to record a selection of new songs that have unmistakable sibling magic and harmonies. ‚ÄúI don‚Äôt think he quite understands what he‚Äôs gotten himself into but now the album‚Äôs comin\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCall Your Mama\r Hey, Bus Driver!\r Ten Tonne Truck\r Queenie, Queenie\r You Were Mine\r 16 Miles of Chain\r Tell Me That You Love Me\r Any Fool With A Heart\r Sister Mavis\r Sleep\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFormat Detail: CD Digipak\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFormat: CD\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGenre: Rock\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Tami Neilson","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42032164044881,"sku":"V7BOHJ-E0T5-SN","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0620\/5023\/8545\/files\/tami-neilson-chickaboom_NAhRJ.jpg?v=1759477083"},{"product_id":"tami-neilson-dont-be-afraid-cd","title":"Don't Be Afraid (CD)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"It's the most personal album I've ever written, and it is very daunting to put such a raw, exposed, vulnerable part of yourself out there,\" remarks Tami Neilson of her new album Don't Be Afraid. Don't Be Afraid was nearly left unfinished. With two songs completed and six weeks left to write Tami Neilson unexpectedly lost her father, the patriarch of The Neilson Family band who Tami had toured across Canada with as a young girl opening for the likes of Johnny Cash. It was with her mother and brother's encouragement that she finished the record as a way of honouring her dad. \"I actually inadvertently wrote the title track (without realizing it would be for the album) the week Dad died. 'Don't Be Afraid' was the last song Dad wrote, while in the hospital. He had written the melody, lyrics and everything, but he was on oxygen and could barely breathe to speak. He told me that it was driving him crazy that he had this new song stuck in his head, but had no way of offloading it. It's an awful feeling, I know, so I said I would bring him in his guitar so he could play it and I'd record it on my phone. He did a verse, so I got the melody, but then his levels dropped dramatically (that's the hidden track on the album, Dad's Demo'), but we didn't get the chorus, or the melody for the chorus.\" Don't Be Afraid finds the soul taking precedence over the country as Tami found herself listening to a lot of gospel around the time of her father's death and finding a kinship with the legendary singer Mavis Staples: \"I've always been a massive Staples fan. I had ordered the new Pops album, it was released days before Dad died, and I ordered it in Canada so I could take it into the hospital for him to listen to. It arrived the day after he died, and of course I sobbed about that, but I will always be so grateful for that album helping me get through that grieving process.\" Recorded in Ben Edwards' New Zealand Sitting Room studio, the songs were again recorded live, the musicians all in the room playing together. The album features Delaney Davidson and all the boys that were on Dynamite! including harmonies from Marlon Williams on the soon-to-be classic 'Lonely'. The album features a Tina Turner throwback, 'Holy Moses', the swinging country of 'Only Tears', a bluesy swagger in `So Far Away' and the southern soul of 'Burn My Body'. The album is bookended by the title track, including the haunting hidden demo track sung by Tami's father. \"There are a lot of reasons I chose Don't Be Afraid as the title, and one of them is that, musically, as an artist it's a departure for me. There are definite moments where I have had to go, 'Don't be afraid of this, this is who you are,- Neilson says. \"This album is the guts of me. 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