Articles tagged with Will Currie and the Country French

Men who speak and follow through

September 5, 2011
Will Currie and the Collared Shirts
Long weekend! In the last three days I have:

-Turned 26.
-Seen five deer and two grizzly bears. Five of them were wild, two of them weren’t. Guess which ones.
-Had my backpack (containing a hoodie and iPod) stolen.
-Gone up that crazy wind turbine on Grouse Mountain.
-Seen Richard III at Bard on the Beach.
-Written a blog post about “Tommy Douglas,” a peppy and patriotric piano pop tune by Will Currie and the Country French. You’re reading it. Go to Exclaim! for more.


 
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The voice of God spillin’ out of my mouth

January 2, 2010
Only Will Currie (second left) was in on the joke
Novels will probably get labeled as a supergroup, although the band’s members are hardly megastars. A collaboration between Graham Wright (Tokyo Police Club), Luke Lalonde (Born Ruffians), Will Currie (Will Currie and the Country French), Dean Marino (EX~PO) and Jason Sadlowski (Jay Sad), each songwriter contributed one track to the group’s self-titled EP, which is available now as a free download from their website.

“No Hard Feelings” is fronted by Graham Wright, and it covers similar stylistic territory to his folksy solo recordings. A saloon piano plunks along as Wright sings a wistfully nostalgic tribute to a friend who’s moving away. The song’s characters appear to be school friends, but it’s also possible that it’s a divorced father addressing his daughter, singing, “Say hello to the boys you kiss / When you turn sixteen / Show ‘em what you’re made of, kid / And give ‘em hell for me.”

MP3: “No Hard Feelings”
 
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