"They're the songs embedded in a lot of my fans' brains pretty well we probably have very similar record collections," he says.
On Americana, Lizotte pays tribute to artists like Bruce Springsteen, Tom Petty and Bob Dylan in a nostalgic reflection on his own American roots the ARIA Award-winner was born in Massachusetts and moved to Perth with his family at the age of five. "Musicians shouldn't begrudge other people's songs because you can learn a lot from them. "I thought I'll do it for a few months to pay my bills but turned out trying to learn everyone else's songs like that taught me a lot of discipline. "Around age of 18 I was so broke and I got a call from a drummer I'd been playing with and he said there's a band being formed they asked if you and I want to be in it," he says.
The 50-year-old admits he turned his nose up at cover bands as a teenager. "Back in the 60s if a song had any notoriety then people jumped on it and got a version of it out as quick as they could, right back to Pat Boone doing Tutti Frutti." "In the 90s, in the whole grunge period, it was very secular and people didn't want to do covers as much. "It definitely seems to be with YouTube people are getting into doing different versions of people's songs more than ever," Lizotte observes. The singer songwriter, real name Mark Lizotte, is on the road with his latest album Americana, a tribute to the American rock and roots music on which he was raised. To win the Examiner’s tickets to see Diesel, send your name and daytime contact number in an email titled “Diesel” to winner will be notified by 5pm on Wednesday, May 4.COVERS are back in fashion and that suits Diesel just fine. The Examiner has one double pass, containing two general admission tickets, to give away to the Nelson Bay show, which will start at 8pm. Tickets to see Diesel, from or by phoning 4981 1344, will cost $40 for Diggers members and $45 for non-members. Diesel will perform at Wests Nelson Bay Diggers on Friday, May 13. It comes three years after his last, Let It Fly. Pieces Of Americana will be Diesel’s 12th album. “Never have been.” He will also be performing some of his greatest hits, which will serve as a look back on the path that led him to today: eight studio albums, two of them number one hits on the ARIA chart – Hepfidelity in 1992 and The Lobbyist in 1993 – and six ARIA Awards. “We’re not scared of mixing things up here and breaking the rules. “That mongrel thing, taking music – whether it’s from England or America – then crossing things over. “It’s very Australian what I’m doing,” he said. “From moving out here from America, then moving back and forth again I wonder if I would have as much fascination and love for American music if I had just stayed in America all my life and never made it out to Australia? It’s safe to say I probably wouldn’t.” The music may be American, but Diesel will approach it the only way he knows how. “It’s such a broad term, Americana – it means different things to different people,” Diesel said. Throughout the tour to Australia’s regional hot spots, which will include a stop in Nelson Bay in May, Diesel will be paying tribute to the artists that influenced his own musical career. Diesel’s Pieces Of Americana tour will serve as an introduction to his upcoming album by the same name, to be released mid-year. TWENTY-five years after he busted out of the garage and into the Australian psyche, Diesel fans will be able to hear the songs that made the man when he heads around the country on a solo tour.
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