The same year brought the release of Food in the Belly, a studio album recorded in Vancouver, which saw guest artists including Beth Preston, Harry Manx, and the Vancouver Children's Choir. Another live album, Good Spirit, was recorded at three of his Australian gigs and released in 2005. It debuted in the Top 20 of the ARIA charts and attained platinum sales.nnAttracting more attention, he toured with Jack Johnson, as well as G. The independently released album was his first to be distributed by Universal, which gave him a larger audience. Solace contained his cover of Bob Marley's "No Woman No Cry" and the single "Let Me Be," which he plays a popular extended version of at his concerts. His next studio album, 2004's Solace, tried to capture his live sound by eschewing guest artists - Rudd played all the instruments himself with only a few overdubs. His first studio album, To Let, followed a year later.nn2003 saw another independently released document of his stage performances in Live at the Grid. The first document of his performances, Live in Canada, was recorded in 2001 and helped spread the word. His skills came together when he began busking and traveling.nnDuring his travels, Rudd developed an affinity for Canada, where he has dual citizenship. He was destined to be a musician, but could never focus on just one instrument instead finding ways to combine them by playing basslines on his guitar while simultaneously fingerpicking on the lower strings, for example.
While growing up in Torquay and Bell's Beach in Victoria, he also learned guitar, clarinet, and saxophone. His albums, several of them live recordings, are most often for sale at these sold-out gigs.nnRudd first learned the circular breathing technique required to play the didgeridoo by practicing on a vacuum cleaner hose. He takes this setup with him on frequent tours (as well as his surfboards), relying on word of mouth rather than record labels to speak for him.
Rudd is a multi-instrumentalist and most of the time, a one-man band who plays surrounded by instruments in a complicated array: Typically, he has three didgeridoos placed in front of him on a stand, a guitar on his lap, a stomp box by his habitually bare feet, and an assortment of drums, banjos, harmonicas, bells, and bass guitar near at hand, or near at foot, as the case may be. Australian musician and activist Xavier Rudd has, from the very beginning, combined his love of the environment, humanity, and surfing with a healthy obsession with roots music.
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