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The latest release by Luke Doucet, a practitioner of fine aural addiction in the GWN. This has been in steady rotation in the Monastery, particularly in the Oda ....

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On Steel City Trawler, Luke Doucet turns to classic themes of place, love and the existential labyrinths of human understanding. With a tendency for total candor in both the personal and political, Luke navigates everyday life with finely honed senses of irony and skepticism. On Steel City Trawler, this signature grain-of-salt-seasoned songwriting comes to the fore. Mixed with atmospheric rock ballads, Manchester-esque melancholy, tender revelations and even more tender accusations, from start to finish the album is Luke's idea of a rock and roll record, pure and simple.

A RICH HISTORY

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." Quits. Stevie Ray Vaughn releases Texas Flood.

At 11, studies mime. 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. Parties like it's 1999.

At 26, celebrates the year 2000. Like everyone else. Tours like mad. Releases Tilt O'Whirl.

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, tours like mad, but finds time to move to Toronto. Like everyone else. Somewhere between 29 and 30, releases last and heaviest Veal album, Embattled Hearts. Turns 30. Gets heart good & broken. Writes record about this. Drinks heavily. Quits drinking. Briefly. Starts again. Things look down then up again when he meets Melissa McClelland, who asks him to produce an album. Likes her very much. Produces her Stranded in Suburbia. They admit they're dating.

At 31, produces NQ Arbuckle's Last Supper in a Cheap Town. Dreams of hot dogs. Releases live album entitled Outlaws. Doesn't think it's very good. Tours with Sarah McLachlan. Feels 19 again.

At 32, releases Broken (and other rogue states). Watches Crossroads (the Britney Spears movie) with Chloe. Doesn't think much of it. Produces Melissa's album Thumbelina's One Night Stand. Gets nominated for a Juno award (Broken) and loses (happily) to Neil Young.

At 33, marries Melissa and moves to Nashville, Tennessee. Writes the bulk of Blood's Too Rich. Gets homesick for Canada.

At 34, self produces & releases Blood's Too Rich. Christens the band The White Falcon, a handle borrowed from his beloved Gretsch guitar; the very same model played by Neil Young, Brian Setzer, Malcolm Young & The Cure's Robert Smith.

At 35, moves with Melissa to Canada's steel capital, Hamilton Ontario, just across the bay from Burlington, where she grew up. Produces her 3rd album Victoria Day. Tours Canada, the US & Europe. Wins contemporary folk album of the year at the Canadian Folk Music Awards, for a rock & roll album (Blood's Too Rich).

At 36, produces albums for PEI's Rose Cousins, Winnipeg's Ultra Mega and plays guitar on Sarah McLachlan album Laws of Illusion. Also completes 2nd Luke Doucet & The White Falcon release, Steel City Trawler, with Sloan's Andrew Scott at the production helm. Andrew Scott brings both teenage irreverence and veteran experience, and a huge record collection, to the table. Runs first marathon (well..for those who are counting it was a 30km race vs a full 42 km marathon).

At 37, performs with Sarah Mclachlan, Melissa Mcclelland & Butterfly Boucher as part of the newly re-launched Lilith Fair and ultimately releases Steel City Trawler, complete with graphic artwork from Hamilton's David Collier… and trains for the Dartmoor-Vale Marathon in Devon UK, scheduled for the 17th of October. Stay Tuned...