Lucky Day
© Copyright-Dan Frechette
(777320122728)
Record Label: Blind Snake Records
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Dan Frechette is a modern traditionalist troubadour in the roots music vein. Raised on Rock n'Roll records and radio, Frechette has crafted an original catalog of over 1300 songs with styles ranging from old tyme music to rockabilly. His political folk songs "Who Will Take My Place" and "Mists of Down Below" have been sung the world over by The Duhks.
His thought provoking lyrics and emotion provoking riffs and melodies don't stop there. Frechette is also known to many as a soulful, dynamic and engaging performer who showcases his songs on a wide variety of instrumentation. With his forays in to other styles and sounds Frechette has developed his own style and mastery on all styles of guitar, bass, banjo, mandolin, and ukulele. His harmonica playing, while simple and melodic, has become a staple of the Dan Frechette sound.
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Horse and Buggy Rag (Lucky Day)
author: rolf koepfli
.. back in 2002, on Dan's tour in Stuttgart Germany, I became the owner of (one of?) Dan's "First CD sold in Europe" That evening we drunk cheap swabian wine --- I am impressed about the whole album "Lucky Day"!! Comparing it with the songs back then, it is fascinating to recognize, how much his songs kept the unique track, meanwhile have mellowed -- I think today I would open a french "Grand Crû Classé" with him .... (by the way Dan: Betty just got married in August ....)
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Dan Frechette is a Musical Force
author: Uptown Magazine
There’s something that sets a great songwriter apart from a mediocre one. It can’t be taught, but it makes ordinary words and simple truths take on new meaning as they’re mated to music. Whatever that something is, Pinawa-based singer/songwriter Dan Frechette has it. A roots- and bluegrass-influenced musician, Frechette is as talented as he is prolific and easily immerses both himself and his audience in his stories in song. For Lucky Day, Dan wisely enlisted many noteworthy folkies including Tania Elizabeth, Jordan McConnell and Leonard Podolak (of The Duhks), as well as bassist Gilles Fournier. The Bill Bourne-produced result is a great-sounding disc that can’t be truly appreciated without a careful listen to the poetic lyrics. — MW
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author: - Mike Regenstreif, Sing Out Magazine.
"...Winnipeg's next rising star to watch is Dan Frechette, one of the most talented singer-songwriters I've heard in a long time. Over the course of these fourteen songs, Frechette shows himself to be a fine songwriter who is facile enough to move comfortably among a number of genres and styles"
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author: - Greg Quill, Toronto Star.
"The most impressive Canadian folk debut by a solo artist since David Francey, Lucky Day is already a classic, an album that will surely find an exalted place in the canon"
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