Brian Fallon

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Brian Fallon 2010 in Dublin

Brian Fallon (born January 28, 1980 in Red Bank , New Jersey ) is an American singer , songwriter and guitarist . He became known as the front man of the rock band The Gaslight Anthem .

Music genre

The hallmarks of his projects are his distinctive, rough voice and the song themes. Many songs are about hopeless romance and the longing for infinite freedom as well as the optimistic mood of the 50s and 60s in the USA. His music is predominantly folk rock , punk rock and indie rock , and he is often compared to Bruce Springsteen , John Mellencamp or Tom Petty . His solo album Painkillers is quieter than his other works and can be classified more in the areas of Folk Rock and Heartland Rock .

Career

Previous projects

Already at the age of 17 Fallon released a music cassette under the pseudonym No Release with the title The Coffeehouse Sessions , which was limited to 200 pieces. Four years later he recorded an EP with the band Amping Copper with the band name as the title. In 2004 he recorded the EP The American Music EP as part of the Cincinnati Rail Tie . His mother Debbie, who was part of a folk band in the 1960s, also played a backing singer on one of the six tracks. In the same year he founded the band This Charming Man with Michael Volpe, Chris Clementi and Michael LeBoeuf . With this line-up, they released the album Every Little Secret. A year later, Clementi and LeBoeuf left the band and were replaced by Benny Horowitz and Alex Levine.

The Gaslight Anthem

Main article: The Gaslight Anthem After Volpe also left the band, Fallon formed The Gaslight Anthem with the remaining band members and Alex Rosamilia . Here he achieved his international breakthrough. Until the break in 2015, they recorded the albums Sink or Swim , The '59 Sound , American Slang , Handwritten and Get Hurt .

Side projects

In 2011 he announced that he would go on tour with Ian Perkins, a technician of the band, as a duo called The Horrible Crowes . Together they released the album Elsie. In the same year he was on the revival tour with Dave home , Dan Adriano from Alkaline Trio and Chuck Ragan . Here the musicians sometimes played alone, sometimes together on an acoustic set, where they covered each other. In 2013 he played some concerts as part of the band Molly and the Zombies. Brian McGee from Plow United , bassist Catherine Popper and Randy Schrager, drummer for the Scissor Sisters , played with them. Although the band played their own pieces that Fallon had written, they never got a record deal or an album. These pieces were inspired by Bob Dylan 's album Highway 61 Revisited , according to Fallon . The band made five of these songs available as free downloads on the Internet.

Solo album

In September 2015, immediately after The Gaslight Anthem's announced break , he announced that he was working on a solo album. For this he had signed a contract with Island Records . The album was produced by Butch Walker, who produced albums by Frank Turner , Avril Lavigne and Fall Out Boy , among others . The first single A Wonderful Life had its radio premiere in December 2015. The album with the title Painkillers was released on March 11, 2016. Also part of his band are his former companions Ian Perkins, Catherine Popper and Alex Rosamilia.

Discography

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Painkillers
  DE 12 03/18/2016 (2 weeks)
  AT 20th 03/25/2016 (1 week)
  CH 57 03/20/2016 (1 week)
  UK 13 March 24, 2016 (2 weeks)
  US 30th 04/02/2016 (1 week)
Sleepwalkers
  DE 6th 02/16/2018 (4 weeks)
  AT 15th 02/23/2018 (2 weeks)
  CH 32 02/18/2018 (1 week)
  UK 15th 02/22/2018 (1 week)
  US 42 February 24, 2018 (1 week)
Local honey
  DE 16 04/03/2020 (2 weeks)
  AT 48 04/10/2020 (1 week)
  CH 67 04/05/2020 (1 week)
  UK 32 04/09/2020 (1 week)
  US 150 04/11/2020 (1 week)

Studio albums

→ Discography of The Gaslight Anthem

solo

  • Painkillers (2016)
  • Sleepwalkers (2018)
  • Local Honey (2020)

As a no release

  • The Coffeehouse Sessions (1997)

With Amping Cooper

  • Amping Cooper (2001)

With The Horrible Crowes

  • Elsie (album) (2011) - "Behold The Hurricane" (single) (2011)

With This Charming Man

  • Every Little Secret (2005)

With Cincinnati Rail Tie

  • The American Music EP (2004)

Singles

  • Alarm and Somebody to Shove ( Soul-Asylum Cover) with Lanemeyer (2000)
  • No Surrender , on the album London Calling , with Bruce Springsteen (2009)
  • The South Has Spoiled Me , on the album Raise It High , with Chamberlain (2010)
  • Meet You in the Middle , on Covering Ground , with Chuck Ragan (2011)
  • The Ghost of Tom Joad (Bruce Springsteen cover), on the album Long Forgotten Songs , with Rise Against and Tom Morello (2013)
  • Old Light , on the album For Parts Unknown , with Every Time I Die (2014)
  • Forget me not , on the album Sleepwalkers (2017)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://herzmukke.de/reingehoert/brian-fallon-painkillers/
  2. ↑ http://www.allmusic.com/artist/brian-fallon-mn0000462305/biography
  3. ↑ http://classicrock.net/review-brian-fallon-painkillers/
  4. ↑ http://www.gaslightanthem.org/earlier.htm
  5. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from March 30, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.redbullsoundselect.com
  6. ↑ http://thebrianfallon.tumblr.com/post/130920664309/week-one-of-recording-is-all-done-so-far-its
  7. ↑ Chart sources: DE AT CH UK US

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Fallon, Brian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American rock singer
DATE OF BIRTH January 28, 1980
PLACE OF BIRTH Red Bank , New Jersey , USA