Artist: Julie Doiron and the Wooden Stars
Songs: The Best Thing for Me / Au Contraire / Sweeter
Recorded at The Horseshoe Tavern, August 21, 2014.
Julie Doiron and the Wooden Stars - The Best Thing for Me
Julie Doiron and the Wooden Stars - Au Contraire
Julie Doiron and the Wooden Stars - Sweeter
Full review to follow. The fifteen-year anniversary of Julie Doiron's collaborative album with Ottawa's Wooden Stars came with a short tour, giving Doiron a chance to dig back into a corner of her back catalog that doesn't always get dusted off in her other incarnations. The guitar interplay (such as the howlin' drone outro to "Au Contraire") brought a different, more precisely technical feel to Doiron's songs, though she sang with as much joy and spontaneity as ever. (There also seemed to be a lot of folks running into their circa-2000 friends, which might have accounted for a chattier crowd than you might have expected at a one-chance-to-hear-it event like this — you can hear them threatening to drown things out at the start of "Sweeter".)
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