Doc Walker gets personal
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Doc Walker will be in Chilliwack on May 14, with Ridley Bent and Nikki Werner.
For this band of men who started working together in their teens, growing up was an inevitable turn of fate.
And Doc Walker has really grown up.
Their new album, The Beautiful Life, is more personal. The stages they’re playing on, a little smaller. And after years of performing and recording, they’ve found a way to take more control over their music.
“We wanted to make it our own,” Murray Pulver says, during an interview four days into their latest tour.
“In the past there have been a lot of outside influences telling us what to be and do,” he says. “The last record there was a bit of push and pull. This time, we thought we would just put the three of us together and see what we could do.”
All three members hail from the same small town, Portage La Prairie, Manitoba and Doc Walker started with Chris Thorsteinsen and Dave Wasyliw as teenagers.
Pulver was a few years older, and sometime between then and now played with the Crash Test Dummies.
But the trio has been together for two albums, five years and a huge growth in fan base.
“It still blows my mind that people show up to our shows,” Pulver says. “I always want to say, ‘How’d you hear about us?’”
It’s hard to ignore Doc Walker. The band is currently on the rise, winning Country Album of the Year at last year’s Canadian Country Music Awards.
“The was the huge highlight for us,” he says. “You never expect things like that. And yes, it’s nice to be nominated even because it’s something we worked hard on.”
Winning a CCMA is proof that the fans and the industry have taken a liking to their music, he says. And it’s something he appreciates even more since moving to Nashville recently.
“What I’ve seen of the music scene there is quite different,” he says. “They are all trying to sound like someone else. There’s more room for creation in Canada.”
He’s realized that Canadians really do support musicians who stray from “norm” and try to express themselves creatively. And that’s where Doc Walker would like to find themselves, creating more from the heart, pleasing their fans and still being able to make music together.
Doc Walker will be in Chilliwack on May 14, with Ridley Bent and Nikki Werner.
Tickets are on sale at all Ticketmaster outlets for $32.50 plus service charges. For more information, hone 604-280-4444.
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