Oh, What A Life

Album: Oh, What A Life (2014)
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Songfacts®:

  • The title track of American Authors' debut album sums up the band's experience working on the record. Lead guitarist/banjo player James Adam Shelley explained to Billboard magazine: "It's about our lives going after a dream and the sacrifices made. The imagery of the song was based around me mountaineering in the Himalayas and summiting Mount McKinley in Alaska."
  • Prior to the Oh, What A Life album, the band was known as The Blue Pages. They changed their name when they started working with producer Shep Goodman. "Just getting a fresh name really allowed us the ability to present a new sound to the world," bass player Dave Rublin told Songfacts. "We were going under The Blue Pages for about five years, touring up and down the East Coast. We were thinking to ourselves that the songs were great and all, but we needed to establish what was really working and what wasn't, and move to the next level."

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