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Put your hands on the remote! browse music »Temporary Secret by Gary Hirstius and Day Seven
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fave it Americana | Roots Rock
14 tracks | 59 minutes
Released Dec 2004
on Four Cats / Radionic Records
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- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:52 Like A Man lyrics BUY MP3 03:52 Like A Man lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:52 Like A Man
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 04:42 Hand Of The Angels lyrics BUY MP3 04:42 Hand Of The Angels lyrics "GIFT MP3" 04:42 Hand Of The Angels
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 02:59 Never Stopped Loving You lyrics BUY MP3 02:59 Never Stopped Loving You lyrics "GIFT MP3" 02:59 Never Stopped Loving You
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:57 Wake Up In Tears lyrics BUY MP3 03:57 Wake Up In Tears lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:57 Wake Up In Tears
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 04:15 Better Look lyrics BUY MP3 04:15 Better Look lyrics "GIFT MP3" 04:15 Better Look
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 02:49 Move On lyrics BUY MP3 02:49 Move On lyrics "GIFT MP3" 02:49 Move On
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 04:50 Don't Think lyrics BUY MP3 04:50 Don't Think lyrics "GIFT MP3" 04:50 Don't Think
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 04:37 Heartbeat Away lyrics BUY MP3 04:37 Heartbeat Away lyrics "GIFT MP3" 04:37 Heartbeat Away
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 05:35 For Me and You lyrics BUY MP3 05:35 For Me and You lyrics "GIFT MP3" 05:35 For Me and You
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:59 Fool lyrics BUY MP3 03:59 Fool lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:59 Fool
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 04:23 This Can't Happen lyrics BUY MP3 04:23 This Can't Happen lyrics "GIFT MP3" 04:23 This Can't Happen
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 04:16 Remembering lyrics BUY MP3 04:16 Remembering lyrics "GIFT MP3" 04:16 Remembering
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 04:29 Before the Smoke Clears lyrics BUY MP3 04:29 Before the Smoke Clears lyrics "GIFT MP3" 04:29 Before the Smoke Clears
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 04:30 Temporary Secret lyrics BUY MP3 04:30 Temporary Secret lyrics "GIFT MP3" 04:30 Temporary Secret
One of the most adventurous roots-rock records in recent history with an A-list of his local friends and musicians. Gary's vocal phrasing, songwriting and bandleading shows supreme confidence, and a mixture of hook-filled rockers balances the raw emotions
Bio / Background
The people of New Orleans have always been surrounded by music, especially Gary Hirstius. Besides the natural influence of being born and raised in a city so rich in musical heritage and style, his father is a trumpet player in the real-deal Storyville Dixieland Jazz Band. There were always combinations of guitar, trumpets, and drums lying around the house and at age 14, Gary started to gig with his guitar. By 17 he was playing on Bourbon Street, holding musical residence at the world famous strip club Big Daddy's. It wasn't long before Gary found himself playing what he calls the "Bayou Circuit," the small cities and towns of the swampy and wild Cajun country south of New Orleans.
It is an easy and characteristic process to become jaded with such consistent playing and it didn't take long for Gary to realize he needed something else to happen, something new. An ex-cop cousin who was employed as a detective gave Gary an introduction to the alternative that he sought.
↓ more ↓At the age of 21, with no experience and no training, Gary Hirstius began his other calling - private investigation. Like music, detective work came naturally. He soon had himself dual careers - his songs and stage energy often a byproduct of the stress involved with surveillance and other modes of anonymously meddling in others' lives, hired by sometimes strange and insidious individuals to watch other strange and insidious individuals.
He only left New Orleans to reside and play music in New Jersey for a year but found the Big Easy - with its people, diversity, and music - a place he couldn't stay away from. In 1986, Gary became the frontman of the original Continental Drifters who later became the Subdudes. The "Rock `n' Roll Detective" (as he soon became known as) also fronted his own Junior Mays Band and Tommy Malone (formerly of the Subdudes) and Dave Malone (currently with the Radiators), and was the last heard leading Jackson Meddler (later renamed NO Angels) with former Evangeline members Beth McKee and Sharon Leger. It's an entirely new story now with Day Seven and Mr. Hirstius is ready to emerge from the clandestine nature of his investigations once again, this time to stay. There will be no doubt to the legitimacy and talent of this great band and Gary's timeless songs. Just be prepared for the roller coaster ride of emotions at their live shows, mostly be ready to leave impressed and already humming formerly unfamiliar songs.
*...the jumble of styles on Secret, from the R&B of "Fool" to the soulful sing-along "Hands of the Angels," mix like concrete. The whole is grounded in Hirstius' sandpaper voice, which places the tunes firmly in the American heartland of such roots-rockers as John Mellencamp and Bruce Springsteen while basically retaining a New Orleans sensibility.
Gambit Weekly, November 4, 1997
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