At 0, is born in Halifax, NS. Randy Newman releases Sail Away.
At 1, falls out of moving VW mini bus, on the highway & cuts forehead. Tom Waits releases The Heart of Saturday Night.
At 2, gets operation to have testicle prodded down into scrotum. Gets Demerol for pain and stops breathing for a minute. Paul Simon
releases Still Crazy After All These Years.
At 3, Mom leaves Dad and packs up kids in VW. The Best of the Band is released.
At 4, sits behind sofa and listens to JJ cale,Tom Waits & Leon Redbone albums because they have the best album covers in Mom’s
collection. Elvis Costello releases My Aim is True.
At 5, begins French immersion school and dates two girls simultaneously. Both named Allison. Willie Nelson releases Stardust.
At 6, travels around the Cabot trail, in Cape Breton NS with Dad, who has returned from crossing Russia on a train. Tom Petty releases Damn the Torpedoes.
At 7, gets circumcised. For real. (this shit hurts, never do it to your sons). Pink Floyd releases The Wall.
At 8, moves to Winnipeg with Mom, step Dad and two sisters. The Rolling Stones release Tattoo You.
At 9, gets first job delivering Winnipeg Free Press, also starts first long term relationship. Keeps both for 3 years. Dire Straits release
Love Over Gold.
At 10, plays goal for the North Winnipeg Suns, the worst tier 2 team in Winnipeg. Learns to lose. Takes jazz dance class because Mom says, “You love to dance.” Feels gay. Quits. Stevie Ray Vaughn releases Texas Flood.
At 11, studies mime. Feels gay. Quits. Takes 6-week unaccompanied train journey from Winnipeg to native Nova Scotia, making
stops in Montreal and Toronto along the way. Bruce Springsteen releases Born in the USA.
At 12, makes out with pretty girl for the first time. Enjoys this immensely. Bob Dylan releases Empire Burlesque.
At 13, travels, once more unaccompanied, this time on the Greyhound bus, from Winnipeg to Vancouver. Gets guitar for birthday. Learns to play Squeeze Box by the Who. Is deeply impressed with self. XTC releases Skylarking.
At 14, gets drunk with ZZ Top's Billy Gibbons in honky tonk bar in Taos, New Mexico AND watches Crossroads (not the Britney Spears
movie). Enjoys the serendipity of these events. Lyle Lovett releases Pontiac.
At 15, starts blues band with Dad, who has moved to Winnipeg after being jazz guitar player in New Orleans for 6 years. Plays first
pro gigs in pizza parlour for Dad’s NDP buddies every Wednesday for 2 years. Camper Van Beethoven releases Our Beloved
Revolutionary Sweetheart.
At 16, loses virginity. Many times. Discovers Camper Van Beethoven. Decides good songs are as cool as guitar solos. Blue Rodeo
releases Diamond Mine.
At 17, plays upwards of 150 shows in Winnipeg, including shows with 8-piece salsa group made up of central American immigrants who refer to him as Luka Santana and whose audience members are primarily prostitutes. Graduates early from high school. The Pixies release Bossa Nova.
At 18, joins Acoustically Inclined and plays hippy-acid-jazz-bluegrass in bars & at festivals. Crosses Canada 7 times in shitty van,
while driver (who shall remain nameless) admits to being on acid the entire span of the bands touring career. The Violent Femmes
release Why Do Birds Sing?
At 19, moves to Vancouver and joins the Sarah McLachlan band. Tours Europe, US, Canada many more times. Plays Madison
Square Garden for the first time. Rheostatics release Whale Music.
At 20, meets mother of soon-to-be-daughter. Dinasaur Jr. releases Where You Been?
At 21, quits Sarah McLachlan band & starts experimental post-surf-rock indie band Veal. Ween releases Chocolate and Cheese.
At 22, anxiously awaits birth of child. Wilco releases Being There.
At 23, welcomes daughter Chloe Dolores Doucet-Winkelman into his life. Releases Hot Loser, the first of 3 Veal records.
At 24, gets REAL job for 3 months (installing office furniture) when session work dries up and touring doesn’t pay the diaper bills.
At 25, resumes touring constantly with Veal, records Tilt O’Whirl.
At 26, celebrates the year 2000. Like everyone else. Tours like mad.
At 27, splits with Chloe’s Mom. Releases first self-produced solo record, Aloha Manitoba, the inaugural release of Six
Shooter Records. Tours like mad. Produces NQ Arbuckle’s The Battle Scarred Piñata.
At 28, releases last and heaviest Veal album,The Embattled Hearts. Tours like mad. Moves to Toronto.
At 29, releases live album entitled Outlaws. Doesn’t think it’s very good. Gets heart good & broken. Writes record about this. Drinks
heavily. Quits drinking. Briefly. Starts again.
At 30, releases Broken (and other rogue states). Meets Melissa McClelland when she asks him to produce an album. Likes her
very much. Produces her Stranded In Suburbia. Watches Crossroads (the Britney Spears movie) with Chloe. Doesn't think
much of it.
At 31, produces NQ Arbuckle’s The Last Supper in a Cheap Town.
At 32, produces Melissa McClelland’sThumbelina’s One Night Stand.
At 33, marries Melissa and moves to Nashville, Tennessee. Writes the bulk of Blood's Too Rich. Gets homesick for Canada.
Blood’s Too Rich: Produced by Luke himself, Blood’s Too Rich features his band, The White Falcon, starring Rich Levesque
on bass, Melissa McClelland on guitar/vocals, and a star-studded cast of characters including Paul Brennan, John Dinsmore, Chris Brown, Todor Kobakov, Bryden Baird, Lindy, Steve O’Connor, Glenn Milchem, Bazil Donovan, Jim Cuddy, Chris Stringer, Neville Quinlan, Chang, and Luke’s daughter Chloe Doucet-Winkelman. Additional production was provided by Ian Blurton and Colin Cripps, and the album was mixed by David Travers-Smith and Andre Wahl. Artwork by Lyle Bell of Whitey Houston and Shout Out Out Out Out.
Quotes
"Doucet’s album “Blood’s Too Rich” sounds to me as if it comes straight out of 1977 — not the Ramones/Talking Heads/ Clash take on that year, but the Graham Parker/Dire Straits/Tom Petty version of it. Somehow, punk managed to reinvent rock music too, made it sound fresher and less pompous. Doucet is a terrific guitarist, as fluid and as melodic as Mark Knopfler back in the day; but he’s a proper songwriter, too. “The Comandante” has even been accepted as a substitute for Queen, on a good day, and now we’re approaching the awards season it must stand every chance of picking up the coveted Non-Glads Song of the Summer prize." -- Nick Hornby, (author of High Fidelity, About a Boy) who also placed "Cleveland" on his list of favourite songs in 2008.
"'Blood's Too Rich' is a landmark album, a fine example of the
dominant narrative strain the great Canadian song tradition, at once
dangerously personal and transparently allusiveit's Doucet who deserves
praise for the power in these songs, for the evocative and quite
fearless guitar work that makes this album a country rock marvel. Four
Stars." -- Toronto Star
"Luke Doucet has constructed an airtight alt country opus...
precise guitar work, well-enunciated vocals and an able team of studio
musicians... Throw in Doucet's country-fried improvements and heap on
the guitar solos, and there are more than enough highlights to make the
trip worthwhile. Four Stars." -- Eye Weekly
"For Fans of Doucet's stylishly robust guitar work, the album is a welcome homecoming." -- Globe & Mail
"Judging by the strength of this album, 2008 will be a very good year for Doucet." -- Vancouver Sun
"There's a reason that some albums remain in a person's
collection of favourites... Luke Doucet's latest release, Blood's Too
Rich is one of those records, with dynamics taking precedent over
intricate passages, the old adage about one picture saying more than
1000 words can be transposed to this album."-- Vue Weekly
"There are already some new albums worth checking out in 2008,
including this one by Canadian stalwart Doucet... this is his best
album yet." -- New Brunswick Telegraph Journal
"'Blood's Too Rich' is exhaustingly beautiful." -- National Post
Album Credits
Luke Doucet & The White Falcon
Blood's Too Rich (Six Shooter Records)
lead singer, songwriter, performer, producer
Luke Doucet
Broken (and other rogue states) (Six Shooter Records)
lead singer, songwriter, performer, producer
Luke Doucet
Outlaws [Live & Unreleased] (Six Shooter Records)
lead singer, songwriter, performer
Luke Doucet
Aloha, Manitoba (Six Shooter Records)
lead singer, songwriter, performer, producer
Veal
Tilt'O'Whirl (Six Shooter Records)
lead singer, songwriter, performer, co-producer
Veal
Hot Loser (Divine Industries)
lead singer, songwriter, performer, co-producer
www.vealmusic.com
Sarah McLachlan
Freedom Sessions (Nettwerk)
performer
Sarah McLachlan
Rarities & B. Sides: Dear God (Nettwerk)
performer
Sarah McLachlan
Afterglow Live (album & dvd)
performer
www.sarahmclachlan.com
Chantal Kreviazuk
The Colour Moving & Still (Sony Music Canada)
performer
www.chantalkreviazuk.com
NQ Arbuckle
Last Supper in a Cheap Town (Six Shooter Records)
producer
NQ Arbuckle
Hanging the Battle-scarred Pinata (Six Shooter Records)
producer, performer
www.nqarbuckle.com
Melissa McLelland
Victoria Day (Six Shooter Records)
producer, performer, co-writer
www.melissamcclelland.com
Melissa McLelland
Thumbelina's One Night Stand (Orange Label)
producer, performer, co-writer
www.melissamcclelland.com
Melissa McLelland
Stranded in Suburbia (Orange Label)
producer, performer, co-writer
www.melissamcclelland.com
Captain Tractor
Hoserista (Six Shooter/Lugan Records)
producer, performer, co-writer
www.captaintractor.com
Oh Susanna
Oh Susanna (Nettwerk)
performer
Oh Susanna
Sleepy Little Sailor (Stella Records)
performer
www.ohsusannamusic.com
Delirium
Poem (Nettwerk)
performer & co-song writer: Animal Kingdom
www.nettwerk.com
Lily Frost
Lunamarium (Nettwerk)
performer
Lily Frost
Cosmicomicountry (Independent)
performer
Lily Frost
Lily Frost (Independent)
performer
www.lilyfrost.com
Marin Ord
(Nettwerk/Capitol)
performer
T. Greer
Self-Titled (Cheeky Discs)
producer, performer
Tanya Coghlin
Astral is Annie (not yet released)
producer, performer
Recording / Live Performance Credits
Toured extensively throughout the US, Canada, and Europe and/or
recording in various capacities (performer / producer / songwriter) on
albums and demos with the following artists:
Sarah McLachlan
John Bottomley
Holly McNarland
Danny Michel
The Devlins
Mae Moore
Chin Injeti
Chris Stopa
Acoustically Inclined
Blue Rodeo
Babe Gurr
Richard Reagh
Kathryn Rose
Oh Susanna
Veda Hille
Martin Tielli
Award Nominations
2008 Canadian Folk Music Awards - Contemporary Album of the Year
Artist: Luke Doucet
Title: Blood's Too Rich
2006 Juno Awards - Adult Alternative Album of the Year
Artist: Luke Doucet
Title: Broken (and other rogue states)
West Coast Music Awards:
Luke Doucet, Musician of the Year
Georgia Straight Music Awards:
Luke Doucet, Favourite Local Male Artist
Veal, Best Local Group
Veal, Favourite Live Act
