Tag: Jeffrey Hatcher

I love finding new/old music and this band I like a lot. Warren was commenting last weekend and mentioned this band. If I had heard of them before I had forgotten about it. Their sound is right up my alley and I liked it right away. I hear a strong Everly Brothers and Country Byrds with this band. The harmonizing sounds wonderful along with the Rickenbacker jangly guitar. As with my other post today…the hardest part was picking a song because so many are that good. 

When Warren mentioned that Billy Cowsill formed the band with Jeffrey Hatcher…it didn’t hit me where I saw that name before. Billy owsill had previously been a member of the 1960s pop group The Cowsills. After hearing the Blue Shadows…I would have never made that connection. Hatcher had been the singer for Jeffrey Hatcher & The Big Beat before joining Cowsill. 

They were a Canadian country-rock band formed in Vancouver, British Columbia in 1992. They had the complete package of harmonies, songwriting, and their blend of country and rock. Many critics drew comparisons to The Everly Brothers and Graham Parsons. 

This song is from The Blue Shadows’ debut album, On the Floor of Heaven released in 1993. The band would go on to release 2 albums in total. Their second album Lucky To Me was released in 1995. The band broke up in 1996, partly due to Cowsill’s declining health and a lack of major commercial success. Billy Cowsill passed away in 2006 with various health issues. 

Here are the Blue Shadows outside of the recording studio in Vancouver in 1993. 

Deliver Me

Driving at midnight and the moon is
Looking right at me
I can feel it settling down on me
Over me
Come deliver me from this night
When I left you standing so alone
Then I started wondering
But I don’t mind saying it now
Oh please come to me
Come deliver me from this night
Ahh that love we had found
Well we drove it underground
Deliver me
This canyon’s on fire now
And I’m wondering
How much longer will it be
Till it comes tumbling down
Over me
Come deliver me from this night
Ahh that love we had found
Well we drove it underground
Deliver me
Yeah all that love we had found
Well we drove it underground
Deliver us from our yesterdays
Hold us together if it can’t be done
Deliver us from all that might be
If we get what we think we want
Ahh deliver me
Driving at midnight and the moon is still
Looking right at me
I can feel it settling down on me
Over me
Come deliver me from this night
Ahh that love we had found
Well we drove it underground
Deliver me
Oh please deliver me
Come on now deliver me
Come on now deliver me
Deliver me from this night
Deliver me
Deliver me
Come on come on come on now deliver me
From this night
Deliver me
Come on, come on deliver me
From this night