Jeff Hope
Middle Sackville, Nova Scotia, Canada | Established. Jan 01, 2002
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Nova Scotia’s country rocker Jeff Hope is back after a near-two decade pause from recording with his forthcoming album, Fill The Void set to be released December 31, 2019.
Recently, he has unveiled the first single, along with a lyric video. “No Thing” is a track that Hope describes as “a song written from the light-hearted perspective of a guy who wants no commitments and claims ‘no fault’ if the other party feels differently.
“I wrote this song last March while working on my album, as a whole,” the Middle Sackville, Nova Scotia-based artist continues. “It was such a fun groove, I decided to move forward with it ASAP and include it on the record.
Since then, it’s become one of my favourites.”
Check out the lyric video for “No Thing” below and find out more about Jeff via our Five Questions With segment. - Canadian Beats
“I wrote this song last March while working on my album, as a whole,” the Middle Sackville, Nova Scotia-based artist continues. “It was such a fun groove, I decided to move forward with it ASAP and include it on the record.
“Since then, it’s become one of my favourites.”
As for music in and of itself, the craft has as long been a favourite for Hope. At age 17, he was teaching seminars on home recording and working in sound production for local acts on a weekly basis, and a regular on the local country circuit with Smokey Ridge and Little Rock soon after.
His skills continued to stack and the versatile musician quickly found himself a regular member of the Celtic band, Barnacle, and co-founder of the group The Frequency. Hope has recorded with artists including Louisa Manuel, Grassfire, and on Chelsea Nisbett’s ECMA-winning 2008 Gospel album, New Beginnings.
In 2002, Hope recorded and produced his debut album The Show Must Go On, an upbeat, earnest collection of bluesy rock, perfect for ‘cranking up on a drive with the windows down,’ he says.
“I had finished something I felt was monumental to me,” he says, before adding that, in the crush of life — raising a family and running a business — he walked away from recording and performing for what felt like an eternity.
It would be two things that would ultimately draw him back in: longtime friend and collaborator Kyle Boudreau tapped him for a new recording, and on a more sombre note, his father and musical inspiration, Robert Hope, passed away.
“I decided just to try a track in my home studio,” Hope says, describing gathering his late father’s belongings, and deciding to restring his dad’s old guitars.
Feeling the tug of inspiration for the first time in years, he wrote and recorded new material for the building blocks of an album within the 15 days afterwards.
The result is Fill The Void, Hope’s 18-track project he describes as edgy, exciting, light-hearted, and infused with new energy.
“I believe my father was there with me,” he says. “I believe this is a record of ghosts.”
Speaking of… Hope has also re-released The Show Must Go On, now available on Spotify and all major streaming services, as a timely precursor. “They’re two different projects from different seasons in my life, but I’m proud of them both and I think together they tell a story of this journey I’m on, as a musician and as a person.”
“No Thing” is available now. Fill The Void is available December 31st.
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Nova Scotia Country Rocker Jeff Hope Will ‘Fill The Void’ With “No Thing”
Submitted by Record World Magazine
East Canadian country rocker Jeff Hope is back after a near-two decade pause from recording with the forthcoming release of his new album, Fill The Void — available December 31st!
First single up? “No Thing” — a track Hope describes as “a song written from the light-hearted perspective of a guy who wants no commitments and claims ‘no fault’ if the other party feels differently.
Watch “No Thing” here: https://youtu.be/UrGL-yXkrP8
“I wrote this song last March while working on my album, as a whole,” the Middle Sackville, Nova Scotia-based artist continues. “It was such a fun groove, I decided to move forward with it ASAP and include it on the record.
“Since then, it’s become one of my favourites.”
As for music in and of itself, the craft as long been a favourite for Hope. At age 17, he was teaching seminars on home recording and working in sound production for local acts on a weekly basis, and a regular on the local country circuit with Smokey Ridge and Little Rock soon after.
His skills continued to stack and the versatile musician quickly found himself a regular member of the Celtic band, Barnacle, and co-founder of the group The Frequency. Hope has recorded with artists including Louisa Manuel, Grassfire, and on Chelsea Nisbett’s ECMA-winning 2008 Gospel album, New Beginnings.
In 2002, Hope recorded and produced his debut album The Show Must Go On, an upbeat, earnest collection of bluesy rock, perfect for ‘cranking up on a drive with the windows down,’ he says.
“I had finished something I felt was monumental to me,” he says, before adding that, in the crush of life — raising a family and running a business — he walked away from recording and performing for what felt like an eternity.
It would be two things that would ultimately draw him back in: longtime friend and collaborator Kyle Boudreau tapped him for a new recording, and on a more somber note, his father and musical inspiration, Robert Hope, passed away.
“I decided just to try a track in my home studio,” Hope says, describing gathering his late father’s belongings, and deciding to restring his dad’s old guitars.
Feeling the tug of inspiration for the first time in years, he wrote and recorded new material for the building blocks of an album within the 15 days afterwards.
The result is Fill The Void, Hope’s 18-track project he describes as edgy, exciting, light-hearted, and infused with new energy.
“I believe my father was there with me,” he says. “I believe this is a record of ghosts.”
Speaking of… Hope has also re-released The Show Must Go On, now available on Spotify and all major streaming services, as a timely precursor. “They’re two different projects from different seasons in my life, but I’m proud of them both and I think together they tell a story of this journey I’m on, as a musician and as a person.”
“No Thing” is available now. Fill The Void is available December 31st. - Record World
See Jeff perform "Running From Yourself" Acoustic - Live on Global TV - Global TV
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Some of us follow in our parents' footsteps. Some of us chase our own dreams. Jeff Hope is doing both with his comeback disc Fill the Void.The veteran Nova Scotia singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and audio engineer's first album in nearly two decades is a true labour of love and the most honest work of his career — and he owes it all to his father and primary musical inspiration Robert Hope, who passed away in 2017."I really hadn't done much musically for a few years," Hope recalls. "But after he passed away, I was gathering up some of his belongings and playing with some of his guitars and I started noodling around. The next thing I knew, I had an album."That's an exaggeration. But not a big one. A little over two weeks after picking up his dad's guitar, Hope had crafted the musical building blocks of Fill the Void, an 18-song collection of old-school rock, country and pop that is as edgy, exciting and energized as its creation. “I believe my father was there with me,” he says. “I believe this is a record of ghosts.”But it is definitely not a record of sad songs. Hope's mission statement here is to uplift and entertain. And he accomplishes it with a slate of upbeat, lighthearted songs celebrating life and love. First single No Thing is a slice of jangling pop-rock voiced by a commitment-shy playboy. I'm Ok! is a romantic self-affirmation set to a chunky power-chord riff and a driving ’80s rock groove. Good Intentions is a nostalgic country ballad about community. Epic Journey takes flight on a soaring vocal melody that wouldn't be out of place on a Styx album. In fact, most of Fill the Void's songs will fit seamlessly on a playlist next to Toto, Journey, Bryan Adams other classic pop-rockers.The two songs that mean the most to Hope, however, are the slow-burning country-rock waltz God As My Witness and the piano-driven power ballad Rely On Your Old Friends — both of which feature his father Robert on harmonica. "I actually recorded the original versions of those songs 20-some years ago," Hope explains. "I was able to extract his harp and my vocal, and then I was able to re-record all the music. It was just a chance to connect to Dad in a strange way."The seeds of that connection were planted before Hope was born, when his father was a member of revered and influential East Coast rockers The Five Sounds. After hitting the charts with their 1966 single Peanut Butter, they toured the U.S. with the Lovin' Spoonful, The Mamas & The Papas and Three Dog Night. But the usual combination of bad luck, bad deals and bad decisions kept the brass ring beyond their reach — "They were booked for American Bandstand and Ed Sullivan, but then their singer told off the record company, and since they owned all the songs, the band were all sent home and that was it," Hope says.Decades later, Hope picked up where his father left off. "I started getting serious around the time I was 13," he recalls. "Then my father and I built a recording studio in the basement of our convenience store in the early ’90s." By the time he was 17, Hope was teaching seminars on home recording while working illegally in bars as a soundman. Over the decades, he has played with country and Celtic bands, co-founded The Frequency, recorded with Louisa Manuel and Grassfire, built and outfitted recording studios throughout the region and produced Chelsea Nisbett’s ECMA-winning 2008 gospel album New Beginnings.In 2002, he recorded and produced his debut album The Show Must Go On, an upbeat, earnest collection of bluesy rock for cranking up on a drive with the windows down. Now, nearly 20 years and a lifetime later, the show is indeed going on for Hope once more. He's looking forward to returning to the stage after spending a year painstakingly crafting Fill the Void's songs with the help of guitarist Bob Malanson, drummer Danny Bourgeois, and harmony vocalist Matt Meuse-Dallien. But he knows he'll be back in the basement before too long.""I feel this is the start of a new chapter," he says. "I've got another record or two in me for sure. I don't want to put this out and walk away from it again."You have to believe his father would approve.
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