"Motorhead-meets-Merle Haggard"

10 MP3 Songs
COUNTRY: Alt-Country, COUNTRY: Americana

Show all album songs: Shoot the Horse Songs


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The road, it weaves through gameshows, clone contests and extravagant industry celebrations. A road where artistic diversity and integrity are a place of legend, where television is the main venue for song. Where image is the master of mind and character, where the grit of experience and the gift of song itself is suspended and replaced by the parade of high gloss puppets and their upper music industry string holders.

So then are Dave McCann and The Ten Toed Frogs lost? They seem to be patiently driving down the other road, the wrong road? Their road is long, strange & drawn out, it virtually guarantees no instant overnight musical glory. In fact it curls and climbs, falls and spills out somewhere on the outside, left of the mainstream. A good road some might say ... and with two internationally acclaimed studio recordings, and the long awaited new release "Shoot the Horse" picking up steam it's easy to see that they are on the road that suits them best.

Dave attests that both the recording process and the recordings have been satisfying and offer the listener something genre bent and interesting to listen to, but maintains the songs and songwriting are his creative priority. "I have always craved song, timeless, lost songs, ghost songs. Songs broke and unbuilt, songs that sharpen grey tongues, songs that hold on and don't let go, the ones that burn unshakably inside your head and, hopefully, I can catch a few of them thoughout my days." Cryptic-edged Alt-Country ramblings, both "Woodland Tea" and "Country Medicine" revel in a depth of craft and instrumental vision that leave songs like "Leaving this Town", "Grain Car" and "Country Medicine" ready to hold their worth for years to come. As declared by Nashville-based Performing Songwriter Magazine, "A Canadian who delivers honest hillbilly music that's more country than much of the pasteurized schlock coming out of major-label Music Row these days."

Peterborough native Dave McCann and the superlative, Calgary Alt-Country outfit "The Ten Toed Frogs" roll the good road. Dave Bauer, electric guitar, will pretty near play anything with strings on it and for sure as hell tear your heart out with his Telecaster. Pete Loughlin has years buried in the Canadian road experience as a rock showboat. He's a shocking multi-instrumentalist and picks up the Bass and Harmony Vocals with unequalled ease. Tim Williams is a transplanted Vancouverite that sparks up the Kit with all the fire of the traditional heartbeat. Charlie Hase is the latest addition to the mix. Charlie kicks into the Double Neck Steel and Lap Slide with unparalleled expertise and all the country charm of a moon-eyed banshee. "I truly am in awe every time I stand on stage with these guys. I mean they're these incredible musicians, and they have this patient ability to let me fall into this unhinged daze. I get a little moonstruck out there. It's kinda like being werewolf I guess. I'll come to after a show and my clothes are shredded and wet with sweat and I'm like, What the hell have I done?"

Check out "Shoot the Horse" the newest release by Dave McCann and The Ten Toed Frogs!