He started by writing a series of letters to loved ones. "Away is Mine" is a bookend to Downie's legacy, but it's also a culmination of two years of intense creation that began after he learned of his cancer diagnosis in late 2015. "This is Gord at topflight - totally unshackled and not having to worry about polishing up the details." "I think he really trusted what was coming through him," Patrick Downie said in a recent phone interview. The double album presents those tracks in fully produced "electric" versions and stripped-down acoustic takes, offering two perspectives on a vibrant period for the artist. Three months after the tapes stopped rolling, Downie was no longer of this earth.Īt 53 years old, he left behind 10 songs that embraced life's vigour, the connections we make, and the unpredictable beyond that lays ahead. The recordings were laid down over several days in July 2017 at the Tragically Hip's famed Bathouse studio in Bath, Ont.
"Away is Mine," released earlier this month, captures that moment in time unlike any of Gord Downie's earlier work. He says Gord Downie always wrote songs to "figure out life's puzzle," but as the iconic Canadian troubadour faced an incurable form of brain cancer, his younger sibling believes he was sending a goodbye through his music. When Patrick Downie listens to the final songs recorded by his brother, he hears a man who's found peace.
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