Where Doc Walker’s 2009 release, GO, focused on the endless comings and goi… Read Full Bio ↴Where Doc Walker’s 2009 release, GO, focused on the endless comings and goings that characterize life on the road, their new album, 16&1, finds the band looking back at the roots that they’ve grown so deep over time, celebrating how far they’ve come since first putting them down and moving forward all the stronger for having done so.
That said 16&1 doesn’t play like some pensive re-examination of the past. It may find the band taking a trip down memory lane at times, but it’s a lane with a big old bush party waiting at the end of it, and a trip Doc Walker seem intent on taking at high speed in a vintage Silverado…
Named for the crossroads of two major prairie lifelines not far from where Doc Walker settled in to record their 5th record on Canadian country label, Open Road Recordings, 16&1 represents something of a homecoming for the Manitoba based band, particularly for lead singer, Chris Thorsteinson. In fact, by choosing a former schoolhouse in Westbourne, Manitoba as the site for recording the album, Thorsteinson is touching down very close to home, literally across the road from the house he grew up in. “From grades one to six it’s actually where I went to school,” he says. “I never thought we’d be recording our seventh record in a town of 100 people, in a classroom where I used to sit, while I’m looking out the window at my parents place.”
Although many the songs on 16&1 were born out of the region the band grew up in, guitarist/vocalist Murray Pulver says, it also represents a departure from past efforts, both sonically and in terms of the band’s recording process, which, for Thorsteinson, involved a dramatic expansion of his role in the studio.
When Westbourne Old School first closed down, Thorsteinson and his father bought the property, but were unsure of what to do with it until the band began looking for a place to record. After going a little gear crazy while trolling E-Bay for equipment to put into his freshly christened ‘Old School Studio’, Thorsteinson soon found himself acting as de facto assistant engineer for 16&1 producer, John MacArthur Ellis (Jane Siberry, Jeremy Fisher, Ridley Bent) – an experience that’s changed his perspective on recording irrevocably. “Assistant engineers are my new heroes,” he says. “They just never stop.”
Typically, when Doc Walker recorded in Nashville in the past, Thorsteinson admits he was often the first to light out of the studio when his vocals were finished – Not an option when you’re both studio owner and the person largely responsible for outfitting the studio with occasionally impenetrable, vintage recording technology.
Overall, however, recording close to home resulted in a far more relaxed vibe says guitarist/vocalist Dave Wasyliw. “When you’re spending $1000.00 a day in a studio, you’re always watching the clock.” It’s very much like taking a long cab ride, he adds. “You’re always watching the meter and that’s not the best way to get your best performance on tape.”
“Musically,” Pulver adds, “it also really made things flow. We had no pre-conceived notions as to what something should sound like.” That’s clear right from the opening riff of lead single ‘Country Girl’, a song that showcases the band’s adoption of a decidedly more freewheeling, riff-based, electric sound that stands in stark contrast to their previous acoustic heavy efforts.
It’s also a product of recording the entire record with their longtime rhythm section, Brent Pearon (bass) and Steve Broadhurst (drums). That approach energized the band’s writing and recording process substantially, Wasyliw says, describing the communication between Pearon, Broadhurst and the rest of the band as being almost akin to telepathy. “On stage, we rely on subtle gestures and expressions to communicate, and that allowed us to really read each other during the recording process to judge what was working, or, more importantly, what wasn’t.”
Ripping it up in the studio with Broadhurst and Pearon also found Wasiliw and Pulver making subtle, but definite nods to the signature brand of prairie rock they grew up on. Particularly on tracks like ‘Never Letting Go’ and the standout ‘Where I Belong’; a celebration of small town life in Westbourne that’s so rich in detail, you can almost smell the breeze off the lake and feel the dust of the back roads settling on your skin.
That doesn’t mean the band has lost sight of the core elements that have traditionally made their music stand out from the pack. Their blindingly tight, trademark harmonies, compact arrangements and relentlessly hooky sing along choruses are all still there. On 16&1, however, Doc Walker have definitely ramped up the rock a notch or six, and nowhere more so than on their blazing cover of the Bob Seger car chase classic, ‘Get Out Of Denver’ and album closer ‘Tailgate Revolution’, with it’s dueling guitars and amped up R&B vocal arrangements.
16&1 is still country to the core, but it’s definitely sonically denser than 2009’s GO, featuring instrumental highlights like the contributions of sax player Kirsten Nash and one man horn section, Colin Weinmaster on ‘I Disappear Now’, for example – a Crash Test Dummies cover on which Brad Roberts also joins Thorsteinson on lead vocals. On every track, however, Ellis’ production style leaves ample room for each voice to shine through. Ellis also lends his own substantial talents as a keyboardist, slide and pedal steel player to songs like ‘Hard Act To Follow’ and country ballad ‘Do It Right’, among others.
While 16&1 finds the band stretching out some musically, that’s a natural extension of the ethic on which they’ve built a reputation as one of Canada’s hardest working live acts; an ethic that’s served them exceptionally well over time, garnering the band some of the Canadian Music Industry’s highest awards. Among them, the 2009 Juno for Country Recording of the Year and a total of 11 Canadian Country Music Awards, including the 2008 CCMA Fan’s Choice Award, as well as Album, Single and Songwriters of the Year for 2008’s Beautiful Life.
On the strength of GO, the band has also received multiple nominations for the 2011 CCMA’s, including Fans’ Choice, Group or Duo of the Year, CMT Video of the Year, and Country Music Program or Special of the Year. Additionally, Pulver and drummer Steve Broadhurst have been nominated individually in the 2011 CCMA All Star Band Category.
Even with several mantelpieces worth of hardware to their credit, and a growing international profile that has resulted in three Australian tours in the past 18 months, Doc Walker refuse to rest on past laurels. “After awhile the ‘tried and true’ becomes ‘been there, done that’,” Wasyliw says simply. “With every new album we evolved to some degree. It’s a little more drastic this time out, but I think it’s exciting to go to work and not know what’ll happen next.”
Even when they first began compiling ideas for 16&1 while jamming on stage and in their tour bus, Doc Walker knew they were on to something fresh. “When we got together and wrote the riffs for ‘Are You With Me Tonight’ I remember thinking, man, imagine playing this live,” says Wasyliw. And although the track sounds like a love song, it’s actually meant to speak directly to their audience, he says. “We had a gig coming up in Dawson, so, in our minds, we were thinking about how to get the crowd on our side, and to do that you have to ask ‘Are You With Me Tonight?’ The ‘relationship’ aspect we actually added later.”
Though 16&1 is a bit of a sea change for Doc Walker, it reflects the values that have made them so enduringly popular over time and speaks as much about their pride in their roots as it does of the affection and gratitude they have for the fans that continue to flock to their shows year after year. And that, at the heart of it, is the most important thing, Thorsteinson says. “Let’s not kid ourselves, everybody wants to sell a million records, but on this record we forgot all about that. All we wanted to do was write a record that we love, and that we know our fans are going to love and want to sing along to.”
That said 16&1 doesn’t play like some pensive re-examination of the past. It may find the band taking a trip down memory lane at times, but it’s a lane with a big old bush party waiting at the end of it, and a trip Doc Walker seem intent on taking at high speed in a vintage Silverado…
Named for the crossroads of two major prairie lifelines not far from where Doc Walker settled in to record their 5th record on Canadian country label, Open Road Recordings, 16&1 represents something of a homecoming for the Manitoba based band, particularly for lead singer, Chris Thorsteinson. In fact, by choosing a former schoolhouse in Westbourne, Manitoba as the site for recording the album, Thorsteinson is touching down very close to home, literally across the road from the house he grew up in. “From grades one to six it’s actually where I went to school,” he says. “I never thought we’d be recording our seventh record in a town of 100 people, in a classroom where I used to sit, while I’m looking out the window at my parents place.”
Although many the songs on 16&1 were born out of the region the band grew up in, guitarist/vocalist Murray Pulver says, it also represents a departure from past efforts, both sonically and in terms of the band’s recording process, which, for Thorsteinson, involved a dramatic expansion of his role in the studio.
When Westbourne Old School first closed down, Thorsteinson and his father bought the property, but were unsure of what to do with it until the band began looking for a place to record. After going a little gear crazy while trolling E-Bay for equipment to put into his freshly christened ‘Old School Studio’, Thorsteinson soon found himself acting as de facto assistant engineer for 16&1 producer, John MacArthur Ellis (Jane Siberry, Jeremy Fisher, Ridley Bent) – an experience that’s changed his perspective on recording irrevocably. “Assistant engineers are my new heroes,” he says. “They just never stop.”
Typically, when Doc Walker recorded in Nashville in the past, Thorsteinson admits he was often the first to light out of the studio when his vocals were finished – Not an option when you’re both studio owner and the person largely responsible for outfitting the studio with occasionally impenetrable, vintage recording technology.
Overall, however, recording close to home resulted in a far more relaxed vibe says guitarist/vocalist Dave Wasyliw. “When you’re spending $1000.00 a day in a studio, you’re always watching the clock.” It’s very much like taking a long cab ride, he adds. “You’re always watching the meter and that’s not the best way to get your best performance on tape.”
“Musically,” Pulver adds, “it also really made things flow. We had no pre-conceived notions as to what something should sound like.” That’s clear right from the opening riff of lead single ‘Country Girl’, a song that showcases the band’s adoption of a decidedly more freewheeling, riff-based, electric sound that stands in stark contrast to their previous acoustic heavy efforts.
It’s also a product of recording the entire record with their longtime rhythm section, Brent Pearon (bass) and Steve Broadhurst (drums). That approach energized the band’s writing and recording process substantially, Wasyliw says, describing the communication between Pearon, Broadhurst and the rest of the band as being almost akin to telepathy. “On stage, we rely on subtle gestures and expressions to communicate, and that allowed us to really read each other during the recording process to judge what was working, or, more importantly, what wasn’t.”
Ripping it up in the studio with Broadhurst and Pearon also found Wasiliw and Pulver making subtle, but definite nods to the signature brand of prairie rock they grew up on. Particularly on tracks like ‘Never Letting Go’ and the standout ‘Where I Belong’; a celebration of small town life in Westbourne that’s so rich in detail, you can almost smell the breeze off the lake and feel the dust of the back roads settling on your skin.
That doesn’t mean the band has lost sight of the core elements that have traditionally made their music stand out from the pack. Their blindingly tight, trademark harmonies, compact arrangements and relentlessly hooky sing along choruses are all still there. On 16&1, however, Doc Walker have definitely ramped up the rock a notch or six, and nowhere more so than on their blazing cover of the Bob Seger car chase classic, ‘Get Out Of Denver’ and album closer ‘Tailgate Revolution’, with it’s dueling guitars and amped up R&B vocal arrangements.
16&1 is still country to the core, but it’s definitely sonically denser than 2009’s GO, featuring instrumental highlights like the contributions of sax player Kirsten Nash and one man horn section, Colin Weinmaster on ‘I Disappear Now’, for example – a Crash Test Dummies cover on which Brad Roberts also joins Thorsteinson on lead vocals. On every track, however, Ellis’ production style leaves ample room for each voice to shine through. Ellis also lends his own substantial talents as a keyboardist, slide and pedal steel player to songs like ‘Hard Act To Follow’ and country ballad ‘Do It Right’, among others.
While 16&1 finds the band stretching out some musically, that’s a natural extension of the ethic on which they’ve built a reputation as one of Canada’s hardest working live acts; an ethic that’s served them exceptionally well over time, garnering the band some of the Canadian Music Industry’s highest awards. Among them, the 2009 Juno for Country Recording of the Year and a total of 11 Canadian Country Music Awards, including the 2008 CCMA Fan’s Choice Award, as well as Album, Single and Songwriters of the Year for 2008’s Beautiful Life.
On the strength of GO, the band has also received multiple nominations for the 2011 CCMA’s, including Fans’ Choice, Group or Duo of the Year, CMT Video of the Year, and Country Music Program or Special of the Year. Additionally, Pulver and drummer Steve Broadhurst have been nominated individually in the 2011 CCMA All Star Band Category.
Even with several mantelpieces worth of hardware to their credit, and a growing international profile that has resulted in three Australian tours in the past 18 months, Doc Walker refuse to rest on past laurels. “After awhile the ‘tried and true’ becomes ‘been there, done that’,” Wasyliw says simply. “With every new album we evolved to some degree. It’s a little more drastic this time out, but I think it’s exciting to go to work and not know what’ll happen next.”
Even when they first began compiling ideas for 16&1 while jamming on stage and in their tour bus, Doc Walker knew they were on to something fresh. “When we got together and wrote the riffs for ‘Are You With Me Tonight’ I remember thinking, man, imagine playing this live,” says Wasyliw. And although the track sounds like a love song, it’s actually meant to speak directly to their audience, he says. “We had a gig coming up in Dawson, so, in our minds, we were thinking about how to get the crowd on our side, and to do that you have to ask ‘Are You With Me Tonight?’ The ‘relationship’ aspect we actually added later.”
Though 16&1 is a bit of a sea change for Doc Walker, it reflects the values that have made them so enduringly popular over time and speaks as much about their pride in their roots as it does of the affection and gratitude they have for the fans that continue to flock to their shows year after year. And that, at the heart of it, is the most important thing, Thorsteinson says. “Let’s not kid ourselves, everybody wants to sell a million records, but on this record we forgot all about that. All we wanted to do was write a record that we love, and that we know our fans are going to love and want to sing along to.”
Annabelle
Doc Walker Lyrics
We have lyrics for 'Annabelle' by these artists:
A Rocket to the Moon Annabelle, you think you're so damn special But there's a m…
AkaZakoria Every single day, new hatred is being born Every single day,…
Annika Bennett You′re so pretty in pink While you're fixing your hair Laugh…
Brian Voyche Eyes are full of fire You want to show your ire You…
Champagne One day when she was all alone The words broke down Her…
Chance Emerson Annabelle′s skin a peculiar shade Like olives or fresh earl …
Communiqué I'm keeping secrets for you now. Oh Annabelle, Wasn't I the …
Creeper Annabelle We're both going to hell You're gonna love the cli…
Daniel Boone There's a certain thing that Happens when you're near me And…
Dusk Raps Wild horses couldn't drag me away Swimming in the dark, hear…
Erato I lease twenty acres and one Jenny mule From the Alabama…
Eva Under Fire It's coming around again He always knew He could never look …
Fast Animals and slow kids Come, dove sei? Adesso Forse sentirai Un crollo Quando ti p…
Frederik Mey {Refrain:} Annabelle, Annabelle Ma génèse intellectuelle …
Ghost of Paul Revere You stood next to me at the show And even though…
Gillian Welch We lease twenty acres and one Ginny mule From the Alabama…
Guy Cassidy Annabelle, My little sunshine Things have changed It's be…
Hail Social Annabelle you never knew the words to any songs All you…
Heavens Annabelle, Annabelle Where'd you run off to? Annabelle, oh A…
Hot Apple Pie We should leave this old town Take the highway past the…
Hugh Coltman The wind rose a kiss to your hair, Annabelle But mine…
Isolation Berlin Ich will mit Dir spazieren gehen, Zigaretten und Schnaps mit…
Jimmy Hunt Annabelle parle à l’envers À l’envers Pour échanger avec ell…
Josh Pan Ouohh oohh! Ouohh oohh! Ouohh oohh! Ouohh oohh! Ouohh oohh! …
Joshua Fletcher and the Six-Shot Romance Jeg ville bare ha noen ting på kiosken Hu som lente seg…
Joshua James I sold my ships away for a dime that I…
Julien Ribot I would be a martian if you were green I'd be…
Kasey Chambers Oh my brother Are you coming home? But if you find another T…
Ken Oak Band There's no need for sorrow if she's already taken You know…
L&O Esta noche vamos a darle En la habitacion Que la cama Se va…
Lee DeWyze I wake up and I crawl out of bed Look in…
Michel Mallory ANNABELLE Ah ah ah ah ah Annabelle Tu es la plus belle Lors…
Morten Abel Tara og Hedda er bezt. Jeg liker babyer som ser ut…
Neal Casal It's 3 o'clock in the morning and we're still here And…
Pascow Annabelle, dein weg ist mir nicht klar Ohh annabelle du bist…
Pinemoon Hey love, slow down, eager to let go So sure you…
Radial Angel Late night I go walking in my head But I…
Reinhard Mey Annabelle, ach Annabelle Du bist so herrlich unkonventionel…
Rich Price Oh well, Annabelle, Baby. The prettiest girl in the town. Vi…
Robot and the Beanstalk I'll be there soon With my sword held high I'll face…
Rozz Kalliope Gözleri güneşte karamel Yorulursan ara ver Ne zaman istersen…
Skinny Flex Voluptyk (Voluptyk) 180 dirección Barna Dirección Barna Ojo…
Steff La Cheffe Anna Anna, Anna Anna, Anna Annabelle I bruche n�ii schue, I…
Steve Einhorn Annabelle 1999 Steve Einhorn/Katidoo Publishing/BMI Annab…
The Ghost of Paul Revere You stood next to me at the show And even though…
The Shorts (Eddy De Heer) Annabelle, la plus belle fille de Bruxelle…
Wesley Jensen Come on now Give up your fears and Grab her…
Zoe Muth That old woman from Dove Creek Colorado, On her way to…
Ямаджи Краски жизни стерлись в пепел Не просто мне принять факт это…
We have lyrics for these tracks by Doc Walker:
A Little Love Along the Way I'm gonna take some time for livin' I'm gonna roll like…
Angry Heart I held onto the hurt Wrestled to the ground I fought it…
Beautiful Life This old house,It's covered in dust This old house,has seen …
Call Me a Fool Oh girl I don't know what to say I feel you…
Comes A Time Comes a time when you're driftin' Comes a time when you…
Coming Home It's another red light after a red eye flight And I…
Country Girl She's got more rubber boots than high heel shoes Got sweeth…
Do It Again Usually, I have two left feet on the dance floor;|The…
Do It Right Usually, I have two left feet on the dance floor; The…
Driving With The Brakes On Driving through the long night Trying to figure who's right …
Echo Road Echo Road, Echo Road Stretching far and wide Moments of my l…
Empty Man The blanket fell from the windowAnd let the sun shine…
Forgive Me I was the one Who was undone till you picked me…
From Here In the backseat we were barely seventeen cnd we wrote our…
Get Out Of Denver I still remember it was autumn and the moon was…
Get Up Don't you think it's time to forget, leave your troubles…
Go It's not as bad as it seems You got a chance…
Heaven on Dirt Iu0027ve worked this land as a boy and as a…
Heroes In The Sun WHEN YOU?RE TEN YOU DON?T SEE THE WORLD AND ALL ITS FURY…
I who's FLYING DOWN THAT FREEWAY WITH THE TOP ROLLED DOWN wh…
I Am Ready I'm not afraid of standing in the middle of this…
I'm Alright I spent all my time chasing the good life I lived…
I'm Gonna Make You Love Me I'm gonna change your mind I'm gonna make you love me I'm…
I'm Just Gone Why, Why'd I let you In Why did I Pretend That This…
I'm Just Waiting I met her a month ago, down at the boogie…
If I Fall I've Been Waiting For The Perfect Moment My Hands Are Shaki…
Just Drive We couldn't stay on the tailgate It started raining So we dr…
Lay Me Down Fireworks exploding In a 21 gun salute Fireworks exploding …
Maria Like a mile wide tornado, Coming through the Mid-West. She…
Merry Christmas to All Rooftops laced with white, A starlit night, Inside by the fi…
My Life I want to know If I walk down a certain road,…
North Dakota Boy I say, how could this be Left her back in Tennessee Now,…
On The Heels Of A Heartache She don't call me 'baby' no more No more kisses at…
One Last Sundown I remember that first summer night How good it felt, you…
Put It Into Drive Put it into drive, take it for a ride Here you…
Raining On The Moon Have you heard the news? It's raining on the moon The…
Right Here Beside Me Here you're standing at my door again I wish this night…
Rocket Girl She said "I got this hat in California From a man…
Shake It Like It We wanna drink, baby we wanna fight Shake it like a…
She One Sunday morning, she'd had enough He slept right through …
She Hasn She is the prettiest girl I've ever seen The walking defini…
She Hasn't Always Been This Way She is the prettiest girl I've ever seen The walking definit…
She's My Remedy She's a summer rain to a desert town She's one more…
Sister Chardonnay I moved from the south side Into a low income address Far…
Speed Of Life Here we are, back in this town We're gonna tear it…
That I don't know how you paint my sky so blue I'm…
That Train (VERSE 1) He woke up on a cold floor In a motel…
That's All Just as I thought it was going alright I find out…
That's How I Like It I don't know how you paint my sky so blue I'm…
That's Just Me WELL I SAT ALONE LAST NIGHT WITH A PEN…
That's What I Call Love I relive the moment that we met Over and over And I…
That’s How I Like It I don't know how you paint my sky so blue I'm…
The Hard Way You talk about love And you say it's overrated You talk ab…
The Show Is Free I'm gonna live forever, just wait and see I'll turn into…
This Is My Life I spent all my time chasing the good life I lived…
Trying To Get Back To You There oughta be a faster way To fill up a Malibu,…
What Do You See Do you see us there on the edge of town A…
Where I Belong There just somthing about this small town, Where generation…
Whoever Made Those Rules Good things come to those who wait And only fools rush…
Why LOVE DON'T COME EASY IT'S A LONG AND WINDING…
Without Your Love I was out with the guys last Saturday night I lost…
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daryl butterfield
That was awesome. I LOVE DOC WALKER!!!!
Daniel Hoben
Awsome! Think i'll go an see them in Saint John in February!
Carly Weber
i love these guys is it jsut me or is there liek bairly any comments. sorry i cna't spell today