| Amazing | |
| Type: | studio |
| Artist: | Marcia Hines |
| Cover: | Amazing Marcia Hines album.jpg |
| Recorded: | 2013–2014 |
| Genre: |
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| Length: | 56:07 |
| Label: | Ambition Entertainment |
| Producer: | Tom Diesel |
| Prev Title: | Marcia Sings Tapestry |
| Prev Year: | 2010 |
| Next Year: | 2023 |
Amazing is the fourteenth studio album released by Australian musician Marcia Hines, released in April 2014.[1] The album featured a duet with Russell Crowe. It debuted and peaked at number 27 on the ARIA Albums Chart.
It is her first album of original songs in two decades, with Hines crediting a chance meeting with Joni Mitchell in Los Angeles for this: "She played me her playlist of all the songs she would really dig if she was stranded on a desert island and told me I had to get mine together. I told her my ideas about what I wanted to do next and she told me to follow them."[2]
Hines returned to the R&B sound that saw her reach No. 2 on the Australian charts in 1977 with her single "You".[3]
A deluxe version of the album was released in April 2018, featuring six of Hines' biggest hits.
Hines did an in store appearance on 19 April at the WOW Music store in Sydney [4]
Four promotional video clips were released; "Amazing",[5] "Remedy",[6] "Let Love Flow"[7] and "Chase the Feeling".[8]
The Daily Telegraph wrote that on the album Hines "brings sexy back",[9] while The Canberra Times called it "an uncompromising album, full of deep, heartfelt moments, where her royal Hines-ness shows a very intimate and tender side".[10]
Hines supported the album with a national tour.[12]
| Date | Location | Venue | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 31 July 2014 | Bangalow | The Bowlo | |
| 1 August 2014 | Tweed Heads | Twin Towns | |
| 2 August 2014 | Brisbane | Redlands Performing Arts Centre | |
| 3 August 2014 | Brisbane | Kedron-Wavell Services Club | |
| 15 August 2014 | Ettalong Beach | Ettalong Diggers | |
| 16 August 2014 | Hurlstone Park | Canterbury Hurlstone Park RSL | |
| 18 September 2014 | Sydney | Slide Lounge | |
| 19 September 2014 | |||
| 21 August 2014 | Frankston | Frankston Arts Centre | |
| 22 August 2014 | Melbourne | ||
| 23 August 2014 | Albury | SS&A Club | |
| 24 August 2014 | Bendigo | The Capital | |
| 26 August 2014 | Warragul | West Gippsland Performing Arts Centre | |
| 28 August 2014 | Bunbury | Entertainment Centre | |
| 29 August 2014 | Perth | Astor Theatre | |
| 31 August 2014 | Adelaide | Dunstan Playhouse Theatre | |
| 5 September 2014 | Launceston | Country Club Casino | |
| 6 September 2014 | Hobart | Wrest Point Hotel Casino |
| Region | Date | Format | Edition(s) | Label | Catalogue |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Australia | 4 April 2014 | Standard | FanFare/ Ambition Entertainment | FANFARE144 | |
| 6 April 2018[13] | Deluxe | FANFARE299 |