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Guaranteed to have a good time, or your money back! If you don’t have a good time at Adam “We have a male genetic thing with the Har- plate testing showed he would be well over Harvey and Beccy Cole’s show at the Cobar veys that we grow too tall.” seven feet tall which meant he could have been Bowling & Golf Club on May 6, then Adam Adam said before his teen years, growth a great basketballer. Continued Page 6. will give you your money back! Adam made the offer during an interview last week with The Cobar Weekly. “If they come along to the show, I guarantee they are going to have a great night, with a sing-along and a great big belly laugh. “And if they’re not happy with the show, I will give them their money back,” Adam said. However we don’t think Adam will need to dip into his wallet as people have been coming out in droves over the past 10 months to see the pair on their Great Country Songbook national tour. Each singer/song writer is a successful country music artist in their own right. Adam has half a million album sales, Gold and Platinum albums, nine Golden Guitar awards and a CMA Country Music Artist award. Beccy has notched up 11 Golden Guitar awards (including five female Artist of the Year awards), has had multiple ARIA Top 10 Country and Top 40 Mainstream albums, a Top 10 DVD, three Gold-certified releases, and more than a dozen #1 Australian Country singles. The singer-songwriter was also awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) last year which Beccy said was “incredible”. The pair, which Adam describes as having a close friendship, have toured together numerous times. Country music mates, Beccy Cole and Adam Harvey will be playing at the Cobar Bowling “Going on tour with Beccy Cole is like going & Golf Club next month. ▪ Photo contributed on a rollercoaster ride at the amusement park,” Adam said. “It’s unpredictable, scary at times, amazing, and so much fun!” He said while you could decide to choose to take all the best studio musicians on tour with you, that however can cause dramas with different personalities and “can end in tears”. “It’s all about having a great bunch, and this time round, we’re all a really great bunch on the road. “We all get along so well and, Bec and I, we’re like brother and sister, we’re best mates. “It’s a whole lot of fun, lots of laughs and we get to do what we love for a living,” Adam said. Adam credits his early interest in country music as being “brainwashed” into him by his father. “Dad always had it playing in the house and he was a bit of an expert on country music and he’d tell me stories about this singer and that singer and when they had this hit and what year that was.” But Adam said it was his aunt that first introduced him to a guitar (it was however an old guitar that she’d found in a cupboard that had no strings). Adam was keen to learn and he took it to a music shop that put strings on it and sold him a chord music book and he started strumming along to his dad’s Johnny Cash records. “So from then on I had a one track mind, that’s all I wanted to do. “I could sing along to Dad’s records and I could sing the songs in the same key as Johnny Cash and people like that. “I already had that low voice, even as a kid.” Adam said his ability to sing (in his signature smooth low voice) comes from medical intervention when he was a teen. Wednesday April 26, 2023 The Cobar Weekly Page 5
