Luke Doucet And The White Falcon — Blood's Too Rich

Luke Doucet has always been a bit of a soft touch in the singer/songwriter game so he's decided to enlist the services of a real life White Falcon to help buck this trend. It seems to have worked as this fine, feathered band has added plenty of bite to Doucet's brew on his Blood's Too Rich full-length. The album is full of dense, countrified indie, sometimes quite crunchy, sometimes not so much. The quality of Doucet's songwriting remains intact throughout, especially on such poignant numbers as "First Day (In The New Home Town)" and the twangy "The Day Rick Danko Died." Aside from his backers in the White Falcon, a few other famous friends get into the mix including Jim Cuddy, Ian Blurton and the dudes from Major Maker, making Blood's Too Rich kind of a studio equivalent of The Last Waltz, albeit less the coke and Martin Scorsese's eyebrows.