Doc Walker

docwalker.jpgJoin Doc Walker, nominees for multiple 2010 CCMA Awards, as they hit the stage at the Red Deer Memorial Centre.

Simplicity is the best hook sometimes," says Doc Walker’s Chris Thorsteinson. Although he’s talking primarily about choosing songs for the band’s latest record, GO, that statement also goes a long way in explaining the band’s enduring success and lasting appeal.

Over their decade-plus time together Doc Walker have earned the title of ‘the hardest working Country band in Canada’ the old fashioned way, through relentless perseverance – constantly honing their chops as a songwriting and a performing unit. Hitting every little speck on the map again and again and putting over a million miles behind them in Canada alone, in an effort to forge a lasting relationship with their audience.

docwalker2.jpg While that perseverance has netted them multiple top-10 and top-5 hits on Canadian Radio, and some of the Canadian Music Industry’s highest awards, including six CCMA’s in 2008 alone, as well as the 2009 Juno for Country Recording of the Year for their last record, Beautiful Life, the real payoff for Doc Walker isn’t the awards and accolades that come with their growing success. If anything, it’s more accurately measured in a mutual dedication to each other, and to their audience.

"There’s so many acts out there that make records, put them in stores and expect them to sell themselves," says Dave Wasyliw. "What you have to do is see your fans. It’s a relationship, you have to keep up your end of the bargain." And that’s exactly what Wasyliw, Chris Thorsteinson, and Murray Pulver do on GO, their sixth record, and follow up to 2008’s smash country hit, Beautiful Life.

Recorded over roughly two months in studios in Nashville, Manitoba and rural Ontario, GO features some the kind of A-list talent that comes with increased success. But while bringing Doc back together with Beautiful Life producer, Grammy-winner Justin Niebank, and featuring co-writes with the likes of Bruce Wallace and fellow Canadian, Victoria Banks, the lion’s share of the blunt, emotional impact of the record, particularly on tracks like "The Hard Way", "If I Fall" and the album’s stand out title track, "Go," is all Doc.

"It’s three guys that have known each other a long time and when you put us in the same room together, it’s what comes out. It’s not trying to be something. It’s really just what happens when the three of us get together, with all of our different influences," Pulver explains.

docwalkercdcover.jpg Tickets: $37.80

Performance Date: Thursday, October 14, 2010

Evening: 8:00 p.m.

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