Doug MacNearney

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Doug MacNearney is a singer-songwriter from Canada's East Coast. As a Maritimer who grew up in Cape Breton, Newfoundland, and Prince Edward Island, the Atlantic Ocean influenced 24-year-old Doug MacNearney’s songwriting just as it did the lives of farmers, fishermen, and First Nations for generations on Canada’s East Coast. His debut full-length record, Rambling Songs, explores to-and-fro movement as a theme linking Maritime and Canadian landscapes and history with his own back-and-forth forays across the country. This collection of songs celebrates the imperfections of life that keep things interesting, and marks a half-decade of MacNearney playing his music in cafes, bars, radio stations, festivals, farmer’s markets, and living rooms across Canada, self-releasing an EP and a handful of demos, and meanwhile working on a Masters degree in biology studying woodland caribou. Rambling Songs was recorded in a Prince Edward Island farmhouse, with the support of friends and family that dropped in to lend their talents. On the record, MacNearney’s warm, weathered voice and tell-all songwriting style suggests wisdom beyond his years, while his banjo, guitar, brass, and mandolin accompaniments blend the folk and roots traditions of Dylan and Guthrie with contemporary influences such as Old Crow Medicine Show, William E. Whitmore, and Neutral Milk Hotel. The songs are at once thoughtful and energetic, with characters easily visualized and sentiments familiar to those who spend time o

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