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From the album 'CHORDS'.
iTunes - https://itunes.apple.com/au/album/chords/id1050778307
bandcamp- https://timguymusic.bandcamp.com/album/chords
Animated & Directed by Sam Mapplebeck.

Melbourne songwriter Tim Guy captures the insistence of a questing heart in ‘The Rambler’. Taken from Guy’s fifth album Chords, which Rolling Stone praised for “its rare lightness of touch”, the song is based on the stranger-than-fiction life of Guy’s own grandfather and arrives alongside a magnificent animated video from filmmaker Sam Mapplebeck.

Taking us from mountains to deserts and even further afield, ‘The Rambler’ locates a honeyed overlap of AM-radio twang and cosmic Americana that provides the perfect backdrop for Guy’s daydreaming croon. Stretching out like a cat easing into its tranquil patch of sunlight, the ballad applies generous swathes of horns, harmonies and more – ending with a heady whiff of slide guitar to send home that plaintive soul-searching.

Featuring contributions from Gus Franklin (Architecture in Helsinki) and bassist/synth guru Shags Chamberlain (Ariel Pink, Lost Animal) plus strings arrangements by Greg Walker, who penned the hugely popular theme song for the ABC hit Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries, Guy calls ‘The Rambler’ “an open letter” to his late grandfather.