Old Man Luedecke Returns With Banjo And Friends
Thursday March 20, 2008 @ 05:00 PM
By: ChartAttack.com Staff

Old Man Luedecke

Old Man Luedecke will present his Proof Of Love on April 15 through Black Hen Music.

The Chester, N.S. singer/songwriter/banjo player recorded the follow-up to 2006's Hinterland live off the floor in a couple of days at the Factory Studio in Vancouver with Juno Award-winning producer/guitarist Steve Dawson. Luedecke and Dawson were joined in the studio by: John Raham (The Be Good Tanyas, Kinnie Starr) on drums; Mark Beaty (The Be Good Tanyas) on bass; Adrian Dolan (The Bills) on fiddle; and back-up vocalists Alice Dawson, Rose Cousins and The Sojourners.

"Proof Of Love," "Ain't Goin' My Way" and "Send My Troubles Away" can be previewed on Luedecke's MySpace page.

Luedecke left Toronto a few years ago for the Yukon, where he fell in love with a woman and a banjo. After writing songs over the next year-and-a-half, he played in a gambling hall with can-can girls and in a honky-tonk with a man named Barnacle Bob. He then went to Halifax, where he released his debut album. He has shared stages with Feist, Corb Lund and Joel Plaskett, and was instrumental in helping Buck 65 win the CBC Radio 3 Bucky Award for catchiest hook for "Indestructible Sam."

Old Man Luedecke will play St. George's Round Church in Halifax on April 26 and the Winnipeg Folk Festival on July 10. More dates will be announced soon.

Here are the tracks on Proof Of Love:

• "Proof Of Love"
• "Just Like A River"
• "The Drawing Near"
• "Ain't Goin' My Way"
• "Wake Up Hill"
• "Big Group Breakfast"
• "In The Beginning"
• "Little Bird"
• "Sad As A Forest"
• "Johnny Has Gone For A Soldier"
• "Send My Troubles Away"
• "Thrown By The Bull"
• "Lulu My Darling"

—Jessica Lewis