Orillia Opry is like a comfortable old car. There’s a real warm familiarity to their songs, kind of like that worn leather interior, and broken turn signal. Singer Daniel Noble and his comrade in arms, Emma Baxter may not smell like leather but they aren’t taking a turnoff anytime soon.
Hitting the Montreal bar scene with their unique and intimate folk sound for some time now, their songs are getting tighter and more infectious than you would expect from a folk duo. Having said that, they also rally together an impressive backing band of some of Montreal’s finest musicians when the time is right. In October of last year they made the trek across Canada with backing band, and good friend David Macleod on hand, to entertain Canada’s finest drinkers, from Waterloo to Courtenay, BC. With experience and balls to boot, an older wiser Orillia Opry delivers folky not folksy rock music that is as catchy as it is timeless. Now set to release their new record “Lighthouse for Straggler’s Eyes†they certainly impress with a more confident sound, and strangely dark subject matter.
They are the folk-country-pop revivalists.
The album is finished! Listen to some sneaky songs here. Look forward to the rest that are even sneakier.
