| lemonade kid |
Posted - 16/08/2013 : 16:29:38
WHITEHORSE-Luke Doucet and Melissa McClelland
...McClelland has "a persona reminiscent of a female Tom Waits."
Both are amazing pickers and Melissa is fantastic on electric bass too.
Devil's Got A Gun...great beer break in the middle...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALjg_NYDByo
Whitehorse is a Canadian folk rock band, whose core members are Luke Doucet and Melissa McClelland. Doucet and McClelland were both established and successful singer-songwriters in their own right, both before and after their marriage in 2006, but opted in 2011 to put their solo careers on hold to work together as a band.
The duo have released two albums and an EP on Six Shooter Records. They are currently based in Hamilton, Ontario.
In July 2013, their second album The Fate of the World Depends on This Kiss was shortlisted for the 2013 Polaris Music Prize.
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Luke Doucet
Luke Doucet (born June 9, 1973) is a Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist. He has written and performed as a solo artist and as a member of the indie rock band Veal and the folk rock band Whitehorse.
In 2006, Doucet was nominated for a Juno Award in the Adult Alternative Album of the Year category for his album, Broken (And Other Rogue States). Doucet has received plenty of critical acclaim; the Toronto Star referred to him as "the best young guitarist in the country".
When Doucet was six years old he travelled the Cabot Trail in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia with his father, who had recently completed a train journey across Russia. When he was eleven years old, Luke Doucet travelled solo across Canada (from Winnipeg to Nova Scotia). Two years later he travelled from Winnipeg to Vancouver, once again, unaccompanied, on a Greyhound bus.
Born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, but raised in Manitoba, Doucet grew up planning to become a lawyer before deciding to focus on guitar.[3] Doucet got his first guitar when he was 13, and played in blues band with his dad two years later, at age fifteen. This was some of the first time he was able to spend with his father since his parents divorced when he was a child.
After playing in bands throughout high school, a nineteen-year-old Luke Doucet moved to Vancouver and joined Sarah McLachlan's band.
Career
Veal
Luke Doucet was the frontman for Vancouver surf rock band Veal. The band has been referred to as Vancouver's answer to the Flaming Lips.[5] As well as Doucet, Veal consisted of bassist Nik Kozub and drummer Chang. Previous bassists in Veal include Howard Redekopp and Barry Mirochnick. Veal released three albums, Hot Loser in 1996, Tilt O'Whirl in 1999 and The Embattled Hearts in 2003. Doucet's first solo album, Aloha, Manitoba, consisted of songs that written for Veal that his band-mates felt were "too soft". The band is now defunct.
Solo career
In 2001 Doucet released his first album, Aloha, Manitoba. A departure from his work with Veal, Aloha, Manitoba has a mellower, more folk-influenced sound. Aloha, Manitoba was the first official release of Toronto record label, Six Shooter Records, with a catalogue number of SIX01. Doucet remains with the label currently, and has released all of his subsequent solo and Veal albums with them. Bazil Donovan, Barry Mirochnick, Lloyd Peterson, Christine Fellows, Sky Onosson and Gilles Fournier performed on the record.
In 2004 Doucet released Outlaws: Live and Unreleased, a collection of mostly live songs and two unreleased studio recordings. Most of the album was recorded on February 10–11, 2004 at the Rivoli in Toronto.
In 2005 Doucet released his sophomore studio album, Broken (And Other Rogue States). A break-up album, Broken focused on the heartbreak of a failed relationship. Broken was nominated in 2006 for a Juno Award in the Adult Alternative Album of the Year category.
The Fokestar EP was released as a digital-only EP in 2006. It contains five songs, two of which are early versions of songs which would be rerecorded for Doucet's next album, Blood's Too Rich; "Long Haul Driver" and "Bombs Away".
In 2007 Doucet moved to Nashville for six months, where he wrote Blood's Too Rich. Despite of his excitement to live in such a musical city, Doucet found himself homesick and claims he "was longing to be back in Canada".Blood's Too Rich was released in Canada on January 8, 2008 on Six Shooter Records. Six Shooter Records released the album in the United States on June 24, 2008.
Blood's Too Rich is billed as being by Luke Doucet & The White Falcon, while Doucet's earlier albums were simply billed as being by Luke Doucet. Doucet wanted to express that the band had become a more important part of his creative process. He had worked with them closely enough and long enough that they were more than just hired musicians and played an important role in the creative process.The name The White Falcon refers to Doucet's reissue Gretsch White Falcon guitar.
In promotion of Blood's Too Rich, Doucet toured across Canada and the United States with Blue Rodeo, toured Europe twice with Oh Susanna and Melissa McClelland and toured across Canada supporting James Blunt. In February 2009, Doucet headlined a Canadian tour with opener Amelia Curran.
Blood's Too Rich was listed on "best of 2008" lists, including a mention from the Independent (UK), a spot on Nick Hornby's 2008 top 10 favourite songs (for Cleveland) as well as another nod from Hornby earlier in the year when he said:
Doucet’s album “Blood’s Too Rich” sounds to me as if it comes straight out of 1977 — not the Ramones/Talking Heads/ Clash take on that year, but the Graham Parker/Dire Straits/Tom Petty version of it. Somehow, punk managed to reinvent rock music too, made it sound fresher and less pompous. Doucet is a terrific guitarist, as fluid and as melodic as Mark Knopfler back in the day; but he’s a proper songwriter, too. “The Comandante” has even been accepted as a substitute for Queen, on a good day, and now we’re approaching the awards season it must stand every chance of picking up the coveted Non-Glads Song of the Summer prize.
— Nick Hornby
Doucet also got the number one spot on a Toronto Star list of "unforgettable recordings, performances, and moments in 2008" and Blood's Too Rich won the 2008 Canadian Folk Music Award for "Contemporary Album of the Year"
Production work
Doucet has produced all of his solo records and has worked with several other artists as a producer. His production credits include Melissa McClelland's albums Stranded in Suburbia (2004), Thumbelina's One Night Stand (2006) and Victoria Day (2009) ; three albums by NQ Arbuckle, including Hanging the Battle-Scarred Pinata (2002), The Last Supper in a Cheap Town (2005), and XOK (2008); Hoserista (2000) by Captain Tractor; T. Greer's self-titled album, Rose Cousins' 2009 album The Send Off and Tanya Coghlin's Astral Is Annie. Doucet also co-produced the first two albums by his band Veal, Hot Loser (1996) and Tilt O'Whirl (1999).
Session and touring work for other artists
Doucet has appeared as a guest musician on albums by Sarah McLachlan, Chantal Kreviazuk, Oh Susanna, Veda Hille, Melissa McClelland, Delerium, John Bottomley, Maren Ord, Captain Tractor, Mae Moore and Major Maker.
Personal life
Luke Doucet married Melissa McClelland on June 24, 2006. The couple announced their marriage on the CBC program Sounds Like Canada on June 23. McClelland and Doucet have since put their respective solo careers on hold, and now record and perform as the musical duo Whitehorse.
Doucet has one daughter, named Chloe, who was born when he was 23 years old (in 1996). Also an emerging musician, she has performed with Doucet as a supporting musician on albums and in live performances.
Discography
Veal
* Hot Loser (Divine Industries, 1996)
* Tilt O'Whirl (Released on Square Dog Records, 1999 and re-released by Six Shooter Records, 2000)
* The Embattled Hearts (Six Shooter Records, 2003)
Solo albums[edit source
* Aloha, Manitoba (Six Shooter Records, 2001)
* Outlaws (Live & Unreleased) (Six Shooter Records, 2004)
* Broken (And Other Rogue States) (Six Shooter Records, 2005)
* Fokestar (EP) (Six Shooter Records, 2006)
* Blood’s Too Rich (Six Shooter Records, 2008)
* Steel City Trawler (Six Shooter Records, 2010)
Whitehorse[edit source
* Whitehorse (Six Shooter Records, 2011)
* The Fate of the World Depends on This Kiss (Six Shooter Records, 2012)
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Melissa McClelland (born c. 1979) is an American-born Canadian singer-songwriter who lived in Hamilton, Ontario, in her youth and now bases her career from Toronto. McClelland's music is influenced by blues and americana. A writer on CMJ's staff blog wrote that McClelland has "a persona reminiscent of a female Tom Waits."
Melissa McClelland was born in Chicago, Illinois. She spent her youth in Burlington, Ontario before developing her career in Toronto. McClelland married Luke Doucet on June 24, 2006; the two have played together on numerous stages, including at the 2006 Calgary Folk Music Festival. He has produced three of her records, Stranded in Suburbia, Thumbelina's One Night Stand and Victoria Day.
In 2006 McClelland opened for Matthew Good's solo acoustic tour across Canada. During the tour the two singers closed Matthew Good's set with a duet performance of the Nine Inch Nails song "Hurt".[2]
She also works with Sarah McLachlan, providing backing vocals at her live shows. McLachlan makes a guest appearance on the song "Go Down Matthew" from McClelland's album Thumbelina's One Night Stand.
Performing live.
"Skyway Bridge" (off of Thumbelina's One Night Stand) features Greg Keelor from Blue Rodeo. Additionally, McClelland is the only guest artist on Blue Rodeo's 2008 live album, Blue Road.
In 2007 McClelland opened a tour with Jesse Cook and sang on his recording of "It Ain't Me Babe" (a Bob Dylan cover) which was released on his 2007 album Frontiers. "It Ain't Me Babe" was released as a single from that album, which spent 3 weeks in the top position on Billboard's world music charts.
Also in 2007, McClelland's "Passenger 24" won in The 6th Annual Independent Music Awards for Best Americana Song.
McClelland's song "Rooftop" was featured on the 2005 soundtrack CD of the television series Degrassi: The Next Generation. The song was played on the ending montage of the 2004 episode "Time Stands Still Pt. 2", in which a main character, Jimmy Brooks (Aubrey Graham) was shot by a bullied student, Rick Murray (Ephraim Ellis). She also performed the theme song for the children's reality show This Is Daniel Cook. In 2008, she contributed to the soundtrack of the film One Week.
Discography
* 2001: Melissa McClelland (Daddy Warbucks Records/independent)
* 20 April 2004: Stranded in Suburbia (Orange/Universal)
* 23 May 2006: Thumbelina's One Night Stand (Orange/Universal)
* 14 April 2009: Victoria Day (Six Shooter Records)
* 30 August 2011: Whitehorse (Six Shooter Records)
* 28 August 2012: The Fate of the World Depends on This Kiss (Six Shooter Records)
Killing Time...very Tom Waits in tenor..as much of their music is.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90PxLl6Gt-c
Emerald Isle
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iq0sTOssg00
No Glamour In The Hammer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HR5i1xFbzF8
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