Over the course of his fifteen short years releasing and producing music, Richard Swift - who died of complications relating to alcoholism at only 41 - achieved more than most could dream of doing in a lifetime. 4 Hits & A Miss: The Essential Richard Swift finds Secretly Canadian making a valiant effort to summarise an impossibly eclectic and fabulous song writing career, with fourteen of his finest moments collected in one electric volume. - Flying Out
Devotees of Richard Swift know that his catalog is sprawly and imaginative, packed with as many finely-honed stone-cold classics as one-take, madman experiments. The gems take all shapes and sizes, and while it doesn’t phase the diehard, it does make Swift’s music tricky to introduce to the newcomer: Where to start? What makes the cut? How many crooners? How many wild ones? It’s with this in mind that Secretly Canadian presents 4 Hits & A Miss, our humble swing at gathering the forty-seven minutes and fourteen songs that can initiate the uninitiated.
Tracklist
- The Original Thought
- Dirty Jim
- Would You?
- Atlantic Ocean
- Buildings In America
- Common Law
- Broken Finger Blues
- Lady Luck
- A Song For Milton Feher
- The Songs of National Freedom
- The Novelist
- Ballad of You Know Who
- Whitman
- Walking Without Effort Theme
