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A whole weekend with Laj … it hasn’t happened round these parts for a while. For those in the know… well, they know. Those who are not, depending on the strength of your liver, curiosity may be your best friend, or your worst enemy in this case.
The Raven and Republic is about to get a Rock and Roll Readjustment courtesy of the Kirkland Carpenter who is almost formerly of Toronto. Montreal is next on the list of future places that Dany used to be from. Good luck Montreal!
Dany Laj and the Looks
“He sounds like Paul McCartney and Patti Smith’s bastard love child that grew up listening to too much Nick Lowe, Elvis Costello and the Replacements.
Springsteen sang once about being ‘a rich man singing in a poor man’s shirt’. Growing up in northern Ontario, in a French-Canadian hockey playing family, Laj is the furthest thing from a poseur you’ll ever meet. He’s real, and so is his music, and he works, playing over a hundred shows a year and putting the hard miles on cracked Canadian highways, north, south, east and west.
So when you see Dany Laj & The Looks on a marquee in your neck of the woods, do yourself a favour and check it out. You’ll thank me.”
-Nathan Hunter, July 2012
Springsteen sang once about being ‘a rich man singing in a poor man’s shirt’. Growing up in northern Ontario, in a French-Canadian hockey playing family, Laj is the furthest thing from a poseur you’ll ever meet. He’s real, and so is his music, and he works, playing over a hundred shows a year and putting the hard miles on cracked Canadian highways, north, south, east and west.
So when you see Dany Laj & The Looks on a marquee in your neck of the woods, do yourself a favour and check it out. You’ll thank me.”
-Nathan Hunter, July 2012
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Brian Dunn
“Brian Dunn, the needs-to-known songwriter from Sudbury, barrels at you like a big old 1970s dog or Chrysler. He’s written an Americana album about late nights, stormy weather and the simple companionship of your favourite vices and voices, in the absence of other things. There’s some Springsteen here, not in any imitative sense, but in Dunn’s freeness and knack for robust melodies. Turn on the radio, or the
television; let’s listen all alone, all together. I think that’s what this Dunn character is saying.”
Brad Wheeler, The Globe And Mail
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Ryan Problems and the Solutions
Ryan Problems is a country-fried folk punk trailblazer from North Bay, Ontario armed with an acoustic guitar and more harmonicas than you can shake a beer can at.
He comes with his own Solutions. The stand up bass problem is solved by none other than Jonesy himself, and if you don’t believe in unicorns, you won’t believe how hard Michael Powers Steel Favretto rocks the mandolin either. You’ll believe in both by the end.
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