Before Russell Crowe became an Oscar-winning actor starring in such films as A Beautiful Mind, Gladiator and L.A. Confidential , he was a musician.
Crowe picked up his first guitar when he was six and has always made music alongside his more famous day job. See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news The Australian performer will release his newest album, Prose and Cons , with his band Indoor Garden Party on Friday (June 7). This is not some vanity project, he tells Billboard .
“This is an actual band of musicians. They play together,” he says. “We feel things out, we work out what works best and then we go and play them live and if another opportunity comes up, we discuss in our next rehearsal and adjust accordingly.
” The album is based in rock , but strays into other genres on such tunes as the fiery revival stomp, “ Let Your Light Shine ” or the country-tinged anthem, “Time & Kindness.” The set came together over a multi-year period. “It’s been like a five-year process since we started playing around with the songs,” he says.
“Probably of the original 11 or 12 songs I thought I was going to record, there’s maybe one or two that survived and the rest are songs that have come along.” Crowe did the interview from his home studio in Australia, in front of a wall of classic guitars spanning the 1950s through the 1970s that he has acquired over the years, including a candy-apple red Fender Stratocaster “that’s played on a.
