Results tagged “country”

Oshawa's Cuff the Duke find themselves in position for a great lurch forward with their fourth album, Way Down Here—the album was recorded and produced by one of Canada's most successful demographic-crossover roots-rock artists, Blue Rodeo's Greg Keelor, and they're self-releasing it with distribution through Universal Canada on their newly formed Noble Recording Co.—but instead they find themselves at a near standstill.

Few things are better suited to the sleepy, sun-soaked air of summer than acoustic folk-pop songs about girls and nature. Toronto singer-songwriter Nick Rose sure knows how to nurture the big ol' sentimental sap that lurks inside all (okay, most) of us, and Oxbow Lake—released independently and available for purchase through Indiepool—is a sweetly sung and gently played testament to simplicity and wistful reflection. How seasonally appropriate.

After releasing albums with other seminal punk/folk/blues artists such as Andre Williams (1999) and Jon Langford (2003), Toronto favourites The Sadies bring us their latest collaboration, out today on Outside Music, this time with tenacious musician and actor John Doe. Founder and frontman of the once-quintessential Los Angeles punk band X, it wasn't until Doe's solo 1990 debut, Meet John Doe, that he fully embraced the country direction X started taking in the late 1980s. He fits in just perfectly at the Sadies's Country Club.