Doug Paisley

Doug Paisley is an acclaimed Toronto-based artist whose music resonates far beyond borders. Over the past 15 years and six albums, he has collaborated with some of Canada’s most celebrated musicians, including Garth Hudson, Mary Margaret O’Hara, Feist, and Jim Cuddy and Bazil Donovan of Blue Rodeo.

Writing for The New Yorker, journalist Amanda Petrusich captured the essence of Paisley’s music:

“Paisley is born of a songwriting tradition that doesn’t eschew or even temper sentimentality, and his work recalls the great country-folk songwriters of the late twentieth century—lonesome troubadours intent on chronicling their self-inflicted heartbreaks: Townes Van Zandt, John Prine, Blaze Foley, Lyle Lovett.”