Willy Porter Luke Doucet

Willy Porter w/ Luke Doucet
Willy plays rhythms that make me want to crawl inside his guitar and sleep there forever.
-Tori Amos
Spend an evening with the spellbinding Willy Porter, whose live performances engage a rare communion between artist and audience, rock muscle and folk-based intimacy, improvisation and comedy. He has captured this most recently on his latest release "Available Light," which features Willy Porter at the peak of his powers as a guitarist, singer, songwriter, and recording artist.
About the musicianship of Willy Porter, Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull recently said, "his music demonstrates admirably that the technical excellence of his guitar-playing will never overwhelm the essence of the song itself. In perfect symbiosis, the disciplines of performance and songwriting combine together to create the unique work for which he is admired by professional peers and audiences alike. Oh- and a damn fine singer too..."
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"Like Randy Newman and Neil Finn, Luke Doucet is a songwriter's songwriter."
-Now Magazine
The year is 1973 CSNY have reunited for the Human Highway tour. Shortly after the release of Randy Newman¹s ³Sail Away², Luke Doucet is born in Halifax, NS. They say a good writer writes what he knows. Some people spend years on the road collecting tales and trading licks enough to give their words weight and their music depth, but Luke need not look further than to his own family for inspiration and for all the notes to tell the tales. He is a master of stories because he knows all the good ones like the back of his hand. His palm is his family tree, and his fingers, spread wide as a web, are the means for his storytelling. The hand that masterfully takes the instrument to emotionally uncharted waters. The hand that all the passing eyes fix their gaze upon, note for note, lick for lick, pick by pick. Between pen and paper, nylon or steel strings, it will be written, remembered, repeated. And it will sound better than anything you¹ve ever heard. Born into his footsteps, while others take years to find their shoes - let alone grow into them enough to make a stand ¬ here, planted firmly, is the champion storyteller: a man raised in many parts who proudly carries his family¹s history, unique in itself, from one place to another, wears it on his breast as his armour, his emblazoned emblem. He¹s better for it because it¹s what he knows ¬ it¹s all he knows. It¹s in his blood.