Daniel, Fred & Julie
Daniel, Fred & Julie is a very special collaboration between three much-loved musicians. Daniel Romano sings and plays guitar in Attack in Black. Calm Down It’s Monday’s Fred Squire sang and played guitar in legendary indie-rock group Shotgun and Jaybird, and is a jack-of-all-trades and master of some in the Julie Doiron band. Julie Doiron is the legendary songwriter, singer, guitar shredder, collaborator with Mount Eerie, Gord Downie, Herman Dune, Wooden Stars, and member of Eric’s Trip. This is a record unlike any previously heard from these fine and versatile musicians.
Dan took the train to Sackville, NB in the summer of 2009, with a couple of acoustic guitars and a couple of folk songbooks. A tape machine was set up in Fred’s garage. A microphone was placed on the floor in front of a semi-circle of folding chairs. The weather was good that week, the garage door was open, cars would pass, as would kids on bicycles. Arrangements were made up quickly, harmonies worked out, lyrics written on long scraps of paper, verses picked and chosen. Dan and Fred playing guitars, all three singing together. The songs were put down quickly, with no overdubs or edits, and the record was finished in a couple of days.
A record of folk music, three part harmonies, guitar picking and strumming. Songs of romance, justice, murder, loafing, complaint, horses and gambling. Old songs, in the public domain. Public songs for singing together. Daniel, Fred & Julie also features two new compositions by Dan; “Runner,” a song about the eternal doomed rambling of a man, sung here spookily and powerfully by Fred, and the lamenting and beautiful, “Your Love.”
Daniel, Fred and Julie is available on LP and CD and for Digital download. The record in all formats, is proudly Mono.
MP3 “Runner” from Daniel, Fred & Julie:
http://pigeonrow.com/DanielJulieFredRunner.mp3
High-Res Photo of Daniel, Fred & Julie:
http://www.pigeonrow.com/DanielFredJulie.jpg
High-Res version of Daniel, Fred & Julie artwork:
http://www.pigeonrow.com/Danielfredandjuliecover.jpg
Daniel, Fred & Julie: “Your Love”
(Live from The Horseshoe in Toronto, ON)
Courtesy of Matthew McAndrew on Vimeo.
Daniel, Fred & Julie: “Hallelujah, I’m A Bum”
(Live at the Mount Allison Chapel in Sackville, NB)
Courtesy of martincathrae on YouTube
Daniel, Fred & Julie: “Runner”
(Live in Berlin)
