How We Roll Ian Thomas

• 1 This Is How We Roll 03:33
• 2 When I Was Yours 04:18
• 3 Little Things 03:33
• 4 Waiting For The World To End 03:37
• 5 One And Only Somebody 03:35
• 6 Cut Out My Heart 04:08
• 7 Over And Done 03:49
• 8 Opposites Attract 03:34
• 9 We Are Who We Are 02:34
• Total Runtime 32:41

Info for How We Roll

“This album is a refelection of life and relationships. It seems in this age, one of the biggest realizations is how much we need one another. We are communal beings by nature. The metaphors in nature are so remarkable. Can we follow suit and better co-habitate on this fragile blue jewel in the void of the universe. The title song How We Roll begs the question, Is this the best we can do? It is wonderful after all these albums that began with my first hit in 1973 I am still in awe of the creative process and the magic of the sound canvas of recording.

Ian Thomas is a Juno award winning Canadian Singer-Songwriter, film composer, author and actor. In 2014 he received SOCAN's National Achievement Award for Songwriting. His first international hit was “Painted Ladies” in 1973, followed by a string of top 40 hits in Canada and around the world. International artists such as Santana, America, Manfred Mann, Bon Jovi, Bette Midler, Ann Murray and Chicago have all recorded Ian Thomas songs. In the 1990s, he formed a band called “The Boomers” that found great success with four albums in Europe.

Ian Thomas

Ian Thomas
Little Dreams is the first solo album from Ian Thomas in twenty four years. It can’t be called a comeback recording, simply a new solo recording as he has been busy writing and recording in many other configurations the whole time.

Since his last of twelve solo recordings, Ian has done four Boomers albums with international success and subsequent concert tours of Germany, Canada and the USA. There have been four Lunch at Allens albums with cross Canada tours every year for the last ten years, twenty five movie scores that have had Ian working in studios from Prague to Hollywood, and two successful novels BEQUEST and The LOST CHORD, and a comedy record called Air Pirates. “Songs are still front and foremost my passion. They seem to naturally accumulate in my life like trail markers.”

Ian first broke in North America in 1973 with the top 40 Billboard hit Painted Ladies, which garnered a “Most Promising Male Vocalist of the Year” Juno award in 1974. He was to be a fixture on Canadian radio with hits such as Painted Ladies (#4), Long Long Way (#19), Liars (#25), Right Before your Eyes (#57), Coming Home (#23), Pilot (#83), Time Is The Keeper (#71), Hold On (#11), The Runner (#20) and Strange Brew from the Bob and Doug McKenzie movie of the same name. Turns out Dave Thomas’ alias “Doug McKenzie the hoser” is Ian’s brother. Ian swears that nepotism played no role in his involvement in the Bob and Doug Movie. His name was apparently placed in a toque and pulled out by a stranger.

His songs have been covered and played all over the world by other artists as well - like Santana (Hold On – #4), Chicago (Chains), America (Right Before Your Eyes - #13), Manfred Mann (The Runner), Bon Jovi ( Stringing a Line), Bette Midler (To Comfort You) and Anne Murray (Good Again), Daryl Braithwaite (As The Days Go By #10, All I Do #12).

Ian’s group The Boomers, recorded four albums and scored significant success in Europe, Canada and the US. They had a string of international hits throughout the 90s and early 2000s which included Love You Too Much (#22 – most played song on Canadian radio in 1991), You’ve Got To Know (#20 – most played song on Canadian radio in 1993), I Feel A Change Coming (#15), Saving Face (#17), I Want To Believe In Something (#16), and more.

When Ian performs in concert he often hears - “I didn’t know that was your song!” “My shows are interesting that way. Often people, who don’t think they’ve heard of me, come to a concert with friends and realize that in fact - they do know me and my songs after all. I’ve even had a few folks who read my books who have come out to see what my music was all about only to realize they knew my songs. It’s really a wonderful privilege to have managed to become a part of the soundtrack to so many people’s lives”.

This album contains no booklet.