{"id":1616,"date":"2011-03-04T17:04:27","date_gmt":"2011-03-05T00:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=1616"},"modified":"2011-03-04T17:04:27","modified_gmt":"2011-03-05T00:04:27","slug":"luke-doucet-and-the-white-falcon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2011\/03\/luke-doucet-and-the-white-falcon\/","title":{"rendered":"LUKE DOUCET AND THE WHITE FALCON"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/LUKE-DOUCET-AND-THE-WHITE-FALCON-M-Review-SeptOct2010.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1617\" title=\"LUKE-DOUCET-AND-THE-WHITE-FALCON-M-Review-SeptOct2010\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/LUKE-DOUCET-AND-THE-WHITE-FALCON-M-Review-SeptOct2010.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/LUKE-DOUCET-AND-THE-WHITE-FALCON-M-Review-SeptOct2010.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/LUKE-DOUCET-AND-THE-WHITE-FALCON-M-Review-SeptOct2010-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>LUKE DOUCET AND THE WHITE FALCON<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Steel City Trawler<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>lukedoucet.com<\/p>\n<p>With a burgeoning reputation in his native Canada as both an incisive songwriter and a riveting guitar slinger, Luke Doucet now makes a determined effort to balance both aspects of his talent. <em>Steel City Trawler<\/em> is as gritty as its title implies, its pure, unapologetic rock \u2019n\u2019 roll referencing the Stones, the Faces and even the Who in all their frayed and tattered glory. An amped-up remake of countryman Gordon Lightfoot\u2019s classic \u201cSundown\u201d is fully electrified, yet the makeover sounds every bit as natural as the original rendition. Elsewhere, songs such as \u201cMonkeys,\u201d \u201cThinking People,\u201d \u201cDirty, Dirty Blonde\u201d and \u201cDusted\u201d ramp up the swagger, suggesting that for all his craft and cool, Doucet\u2019s most comfortable when he\u2019s afforded the chance to simply cut loose. He is assisted in seizing that opportunity by longtime backing band the White Falcon, whose brash delivery more than earns them their equal billing. While the entire band does an admirable job of spurring Doucet on, drummer Andrew Scott deserves special kudos for his Keith Moon-like attack on \u201cLove and a Steady Hand.\u201d Doucet\u2019s wife, Melissa McClelland, adds hushed harmonies on \u201cMagpie,\u201d providing a rare moment of quiet respite on an album that otherwise bristles with relentless abandon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LUKE DOUCET AND THE WHITE FALCON Steel City Trawler lukedoucet.com With a burgeoning reputation in his native Canada as both an incisive songwriter and a riveting guitar slinger, Luke Doucet now makes a determined effort to balance both aspects of his talent. Steel City Trawler is as gritty as its title implies, its pure, unapologetic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[196,10159,1117,1119,1062,1118],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1616"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1616"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1618,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1616\/revisions\/1618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}