The cover art wasĭesigned by Scott McEwan, in a tattoo-esque style Green ' still may decide to have some of them inked at a later point in The full length debut was released on November 1,Ģ005 to a good reception, described by one reviewer as ' dynamically gentle and vulnerable'. 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. 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 oftenĪccompanied by a rotating number of Canadian indie rock musicians, such as Daniel Romano and Spencer Burton of Attack inīlack. Catharines, Ontario-based post-hardcore band Alexisonfire. City and Colour is the recording alias for Canadian singer-songwriter Dallas Green, who was also the guitarist and vocalist of