
It is also a line sung in the closing track, "As Much As I Ever Could." The album is named after a short story by Charles Bukowski. The lead single, "Waiting…", was released on Green's official MySpace page for the first time featuring a "making of" video. The album also features collaborations with other musicians, such as Canadian musician Gordon Downie of The Tragically Hip on the track "Sleeping Sickness", and additional instrumentals done by Matt Sullivan and the members of Attack in Black. Green's second album, Bring Me Your Love, was released on Februand features a wide array of instruments not used on his previous recordings (such as harmonica, banjo, drums and lap steel) giving it a more folk-influenced sound. Sometimes was re-released on Vagrant Records on January 13, 2009, which was the first time the album was available in physical form in the United States. The cover art was designed by Scott McEwan, in a tattoo-esque style Green "still may decide to have some of them inked at a later point in time". The full length debut was released on Novemto a good reception, described by one reviewer as "dynamically gentle and vulnerable". Eventually, he compiled and rewrote several of these songs to make his first album, Sometimes. Green began releasing City and Colour songs on the Internet for fans to download in 2004. His reasoning for the name was that he felt queasy "putting the album out under the name Dallas Green".




The name City and Colour comes from his own name: Dallas, a city, and Green, a colour. He plays melodic acoustic/folk music, and is often accompanied by a rotating number of Canadian indie rock musicians, such as Daniel Romano and Spencer Burton of Attack in Black. Catharines, Ontario-based post-hardcore band Alexisonfire. City and Colour is the recording alias for Canadian singer-songwriter Dallas Green, who is also the guitarist and vocalist of the St.
