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Away Is Mine

2020 studio album by Gord Downie

Away Is Mine is the seventh solo studio album by Gord Downie. It was released posthumously on October 16, 2020,[1] and recorded over four days in July 2017, three months before he died.[2] It is a double album, with one disc containing electric versions of the songs, and the other acoustic.[3]

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The album was produced by Nyles Spencer.[4] It sold well in Canada, earning a #3 Billboard Canada chart debut with the #1 spot on the Top Albums, Vinyl, and Digital Albums charts.[5]

Regarding the release, The Spill Magazine's John Graham laments, "Away Is Mine serves as a reminder that Downie, our dear friend gone far too soon, gave everything he could musically, before the inevitability of his death."[6]

"There really wasn’t a plan to make a record," Downie’s co-writer Josh Finlayson said. "The whole thing was that I knew this was a great way to spend time with Gord, listening to music, talking about music, talking about things that we’d always talked about. And this just evolved pretty organically."[7]

“This won’t be his last release, but these are the final ten songs Gord sang before he passed away. The last time he ever sang into a mic," Finlayson and brother Patrick Downie wrote in a joint statement. “That’s pretty special to us."[8]

Track listing

All tracks written by Gord Downie and Josh Finlayson.

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References

  1. [1]
    Atad, Corey (September 21, 2020). "Gord Downie's Final Solo Album 'Away Is Mine' Announced: Listen To The First Two Singles". ET Canada. Archived from the original on September 21, 2020.
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    Lars Brandle (September 21, 2020). "The Tragically Hip's Gord Downie Set for Posthumous Album Release 'Away Is Mine'". Billboard.
  3. [3]
    Calum Slingerland, "The Story of Gord Downie's Final Songs: When the Artist Becomes the Art". Exclaim!, October 15, 2020.
  4. [4]
    Jesse Kinos-Goodin, "Listen to 2 songs from Gord Downie's final solo recording, Away is Mine". CBC Music, September 21, 2020.
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    "Gord Downie: The Least Impossible". 29 October 2020.
  6. [6]
    Graham, John. "Spill Magazine". The Spill Magazine. Retrieved 20 October 2022.
  7. [7]
    Atad, Corey (September 21, 2020). "Gord Downie's Final Solo Album 'Away Is Mine' Announced: Listen To The First Two Singles". ET Canada. Archived from the original on September 21, 2020.
  8. [8]
    Atad, Corey (September 21, 2020). "Gord Downie's Final Solo Album 'Away Is Mine' Announced: Listen To The First Two Singles". ET Canada. Archived from the original on September 21, 2020.
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