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Julie Doiron

  • Genre: Rock
  • Active: '90s, 2000s
  • Instrument: Vocals, Guitar, Bass

Biography

Julie Doiron began her musical career in 1990, singing and playing bass for the Canadian indie rock band Eric's Trip. As the group released numerous EPs and three albums for Sub Pop, Doiron also began writing her own largely acoustic material. When Eric's Trip broke up in 1996, she released an album under the name Broken Girl on Sappy Records, her own label. Later that year, Doiron worked on her second album, Loneliest in the Morning, which came out on Sub Pop and was recorded with prominent indie rock producers and musicians like Doug Easley, Davis McCain, Giant Sand's Howie Gelb, and the Grifters' Dave Shouse. Doiron moved to Tree Records for her next release, 1999's EP Will You Still Love Me?; a collaboration with Canadian indie rockers the Wooden Stars followed in early 2000. Julie Doiron and the Wooden Stars won that year's Juno -- Canada's equivalent of a Grammy Award -- for Best Independently Released Album. Doiron moved to Jagjaguwar for 2001's Desormais and the following year's Heart and Crime; the label also reissued Will You Still Love Me? and Julie Doiron and the Wooden Stars in 2002 with some multimedia extras. The following year, she collaborated on a split album with Okkervil River for Acuarela Records, and 2004 saw the release of Goodnight Nobody. Former Eric's Trip member Rick White produced Doiron's 2007 album Woke Myself Up. ~ Heather Phares, All Music Guide

Representative Albums:

Julie Doiron and the Wooden Stars, Loneliest in the Morning, Heart and Crime

Similar Artists:

Woelv, Shannon Wright, The Super Friendz, The Hardship Post, Thrush Hermit, Ida, Cat Power, Edith Frost, Howe Gelb, Jale, Grifters

Influences:

Nick Drake

Followers:

St. Vincent, Julie Sokolow, Let's Go Sailing, Jana Hunter

A Member of the Group:

Eric's Trip

Performed Songs By:

Julie Doiron Claytor
 
 
Wikipedia: Julie Doiron
Julie Doiron
Doiron on the cover of her Heart And Crime
Doiron on the cover of her Heart And Crime
Background information
Also known as Broken Girl
Born 1972
Origin Canada Flag of Canada
Genre(s) Slowcore
Indie Rock
Singer-songwriter
Instrument(s) Vocals, guitar
Label(s) Jagjaguwar
Sappy Records
Endearing Records
Sub Pop
Associated
acts		 Eric's Trip
Wooden Stars
Shotgun & Jaybird
Website www.juliedoiron.com

Julie Doiron is a Canadian singer-songwriter of Acadian heritage.

Background

Doiron started playing guitar (later switching to bass) in Eric's Trip at age 18, having joined the band under the insistence of her then-boyfriend, Rick White, also of Eric's Trip. Shortly before the band's break-up in 1996, she released a solo album under the name Broken Girl, which followed two previous 7" EPs under that name. All of her subsequent material, however, has been released under her own name.

In 1999, Doiron recorded an album with the Ottawa band Wooden Stars, which was the first time she had worked with a band since the end of Eric's Trip. She was honoured with a Juno Award for Julie Doiron and the Wooden Stars in March of 2000. She has appeared as a guest musician on albums by The Tragically Hip, Gordon Downie and Herman Düne, and has also released a split record co-credited to the alternative country band Okkervil River. She also plays with indie rock band Shotgun & Jaybird.

Although most of her solo material has been written and performed in English, she has also released an album of French language material, Désormais.

Apart from her musical career, Doiron is an avid photographer, having published a book of her photographs entitled The Longest Winter with words by Ottawa writer Ian Roy. She often does her own promotional photos and cover artwork along with her ex-husband, painter Jon Claytor.

She currently lives in Sackville, New Brunswick with her three children Ben, Charlotte, and Rose. At various points in her life, she has lived in Moncton, Sackville, Montreal and Toronto.

On July 10, 2007, Doiron's newest album, Woke Myself Up was revealed as being on the shortlist for the 2007 Polaris Music Prize. The winner will be announced at a gala ceremony on September 24, 2007.[1][2][3]

Discography

Notes and references

  1. ^ Arcade Fire, Feist on Polaris short list. Retrieved on July 10, 2007.
  2. ^ Feist, Fire get Polaris noms. Retrieved on July 11, 2007.
  3. ^ Arcade Fire, Feist And The Dears Among Polaris Nominees. Retrieved on July 11, 2007.

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