Artist:Copperline

Copperline is a Sydney-based collaboration between fellow travellers and troubadours Brad Christmas (vocals, guitar, piano), Richie Gosling (bass, guitar, vocals), Paul Handel (guitar, vocals) and Gareth Richards (Drums). Rusty Fords and Weatherboards, produced by Shane Nicholson, may be the group’s debut album, but Copperline have more decades under their collective belts than they care to count plying their musical trade in low-lit bars, far-flung pubs, corrugated sheds, and even on the back of an occasional flat bed truck. During this long apprenticeship they have honed their unique brand of storytelling and song smithery, and are ready to share it with the world. It’s the highways and byways travelled on this meandering musical journey, and the characters met along the way, that provide the beating narrative heart of Rusty Fords and Weatherboards. The album’s ten tracks follow an eccentric cast of struggling artists, single fathers, fading stars – even a professional magician – ...