Luke Doucet — Aloha, Manitoba

Luke Doucet, along with fellow Toronto crooner Danny Michel, has developed a distinct musical style that effectively transfuses the rootsy styles of the past with emotional stresses of the modern urban lifestyle. Throughout Aloha, Manitoba, Doucet mixes various styles: the playful jazz-based Cajun music (via Danial Lanois), the hybrid sound of Old 97's take on the country rock genre, the urban wit of early Lowest Of The Low and the vocal style of the Jazz Age crooners. Doucet's vocal delivery stirs up images of a megaphoned Rudy Vallee from an alternate reality, a universe where all music development occurred some 80 years before our present time line but every other advancement parallels Terra

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