Alan Doyle@alanthomasdoyle Hey wanna
sneak listen to some of the tracks on #soletsgo Go here allmusic.com/blog/post Love
to hear what are your fav’s. 14 January 2015
The fans including myself
have been listening to a copy of Alan Doyle’s new album So Let’s Go on allmusic.com.
Recently on Twitter Alan asked which songs people liked the best. I have to say
I loved Stay, 1, 2, 3, 4 and the Sins of Saturday Night got my dancing feet
going. I was surprised at how different it was from Boy on Bridge which I
absolutely love.
I always find it fascinating
how Alan Doyle songs like Stay sound so beautiful when performed on stage with
just Alan and Stickman or can be transformed into something so completely
different with a band such as the version on the
album.
I recently found this really
interesting interview Alan Doyle did with Tara Bradbury for the Prince Albert
Daily Herald where he talked about his new album released on 20 January 2015. I
find content creator’s explanations of how their music is created and what
influences them really interesting. I prefer to let people speak for themselves
through the interviews they give.
I have started to collect
some great interviews where Alan talks about the new album on my Google plus
site. They have been distributed by the source, Alan Doyle and the fans on social media.
I am looking forward to
buying the album and the So Let’s Go tour.
Marcus Tamm@umcMarcus Just arrived at this desk. On the shelves, as they say Jan 20 #soletsgo (from Twitter no copyright infringement intended) Jan 8 2015
It’s only a matter of time
before Alan Doyle’s latest single gets picked up for a car ad or a tourism
commercial, you can just tell.
It’s got all the needed
elements: enthusiastic tune, tinges of culture and an energetic set of lyrics
framing his rousing “So let’s go!” chorus (and that’s the entire chorus, as
well as the song title; a simple, pure, call to fun).
“We’re only here for so
long,” Doyle sings. “We go and we go till we’re gone.”
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The whole song, in a style
like something you’d hear on a Great Big Sea album, captures Doyle’s spirit and
life philosophy, an attitude he says gets more reinforced as he ages.
“Time is short,” he explains.
“You have to make the most of it in whatever way works for you, and this has
become like a lifestyle for me. This is the only life we know that we have. I
don’t want to be the guy who has the most money, and I don’t need to be the guy
who’s the most famous. I don’t want to be the guy who has the biggest house,
but I’d love to be the guy that lived the most.”
“So Let’s Go” is the title
track of Doyle’s newest recording, his second solo album, set to be released
Jan. 20.
This one was made in
collaboration with some heavy hitters in the music business, including Tawgs
Salter, Jerrod Bettis, Joe Zook and fellow East Coaster Gordie Sampson, who,
between them, have worked with Katy Perry, OneRepublic, Willie Nelson, Keith
Urban, Adele and Walk Off the Earth, among others.
There aren’t any co-writes
with longtime collaborator Russell Crowe on this album (although some possible
gigs are in the works for later this year, perhaps somewhere in Europe this
time), but there is one with Scott Grimes.
The record is a perfect fit
to Doyle’s bestselling book, “Where I Belong,” a poignant and often comical
memoir of growing up in Petty Harbour, released last October.
“Writing stuff for this
record was really driven by taking my own little Petty Harbour talents in folk
music and Celtic music and bringing that to the music rooms where the most
popular music is being made,” Doyle says.
“I wanted to have big
productions, big pop songs and energy wrapped around a guy with a mandolin,
whistling the way I do. I wrote songs with those guys and in those rooms that
were focused on having my little piece of Newfoundland music be the centre of
something worldly and enormous.
“It’s all part of me. It’s
just another way for me to tell people where I’m from and how much I like it.”
Doyle — who just finished a
whirlwind North American book tour at the end of November — will hit the road
again in two weeks or so in support of “So Let’s Go,” bringing his music across
Canada. Later in the year he’ll cross the pond.
Dates announced so far
include a stop at Holy Heart Theatre in St. John’s Feb. 7, where fans
will be able to catch Doyle performing a range of material with his
six-piece band, which includes Newfoundlander Cory Tetford.
They’ll do music from the new
album and “Boy on Bridge,” his debut solo effort, as well as some material he’s
done for TV and film and some songs from the Doyle-Crowe catalogue.
Of course, there’ll be some
Great Big Sea tunes as well.
“I wouldn’t have it any other way,” Doyle says. “It’s still the greatest blessing of my life and it’s such a wonderful thing to have that catalogue behind you and around you. It’s awesome.”
He’s eager to get on the road
and onstage.
“I’d start tonight if I
could,” he says. “Yeah. Let’s go.”
