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Artist
Donovan Woods
12+ albums
folksinger-songwriterCanadianacousticindie folk
about
Donovan Woods (born in Sarnia, Ontario, in 1980) is a Canadian folk and country singer-songwriter. He has released several albums of folk and roots music, including the Juno Award-winning "Both Ways". Woods' first album, The Hold Up, was released in 2007. His second album, The Widowmaker, was released in 2010, and his third album, Don't Get Too Grand, was released in 2013 and garnered Woods' first Juno Award nomination for Roots & Traditional Album of the Year: Solo. His fourth album, Hard Settle, Ain't Troubled, was released February 26, 2016, and was a long-listed nominee for the 2016 Polaris Music Prize. At the 12th Canadian Folk Music Awards, Woods won the award for English Songwriter of the Year, and the album was nominated for Contemporary Album of the Year. Woods' fifth full-length album "Both Ways" was released on April 20, 2018. At the Juno Awards of 2019, Both Ways won the Juno Award for Contemporary Roots Album of the Year. In May 2019 Woods released The Other Way, a companion album to Both Ways which featured more acoustic-based renditions of the prior album's songs. The Other Way included guest vocals from Tenille Townes on "I Ain't Ever Loved No One", a duet with Rose Cousins in its original Both Ways version. The next full-length album, Without People, was released on November 6, 2020. The album featured guest vocals from both Katie Pruitt and Rhys Lewis as well as songwriting credits from Ashley Monroe, Tucker Beathard, Thomas Finchum and Ed Robertso
