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Gord Bamford In Concert

A Gord Bamford concert is a high-energy affair from start to finish, the kind where you can practically see the sparks flying through the air. Not that Bamford employs any sort of onstage pyrotechnics or anything — as with his records, he values and adheres to the time-tested principles of country music, adding nothing extraneous along the way. But whether he's delivering Gold-selling hits like "Drinkin' Buddy" and "Don't Let Her Be Gone" or his No. 1 Canadian country smash "When Your Lips Are So Close," Bamford simply pours every ounce of himself into the songs. No fancy stage moves, no explosions, just a man conveying honest, unfettered emotion, and having a hell of a good time in doing it. And naturally, that fun turns out to be infectious; one thing you're not going to encounter at a Gord Bamford show is a bunch of fans sitting around with their arms crossed. Bamford's concerts are all about the audience getting just as involved as the artist.

Gord Bamford Background

Gord Bamford was born in Australia and grew up in Alberta, Canada, but he soaked up the sounds of American country music to such an extent that when he sings, he sounds like a Nashville lifer. That his mother was a country singer, too, may have had something to do with it, but one way or another Bamford was born for country music. He released his first album, God's Green Earth, in 2001, but it took a little while for his career to pick up steam. By the time the follow-up, Life Is Good, came out in 2004, things began to pop for him, with "I Would For You" and "We're All Cowboys" both landing in the Top 20 of the Canadian Country charts. His next record, Honkytonks and Heartaches, is the one that really broke him through to a new level, boasting no less than four Top 10 singles. But with 2013's Country Junkie, Bamford earned his place in Canadian country music history by way of the platinum-selling, No. 1 single "When Your Lips Are So Close." Along the way, Bamford has racked up a boatload of Canadian Country Music Association awards, and 2018 brought him another chart-topping tune with "Dive Bar."