$30
Two for the price of one . . .
Two singer-songwriters
Two great new albums
One great show
Carleton Stone
Long an east coast favourite, Carleton Stone’s career includes his work as one half of pop duo Port Cities and two previous award-winning solo records—a self-titled 2011 debut and 2014’s Draws Blood.
His latest recording, Papercut, is Stone’s strongest and most candid songwriting to date, and finds him plumbing the depths of feelings without succumbing to despair, gracefully switching between genuine moments of melancholy, anger, hope, self-deprecating humour, regret, anxiety, and bliss.
Also an in-demand producer and songwriter, Carleton spent 2021 on Willie Stratton’s critically acclaimed Drugstore Dreamin’ and penning tracks with and for artists such as Donovan Woods, Classified, Ria Mae, Mo Kenney, Bobby Bazini, and Neon Dreams. He’s received numerous awards and accolades for his music. In 2022, he self-produced “Papercut” and toured with Crash Test Dummies in America, gaining fans everywhere he played.
Willie Stratton
MNS 2022 Americana/Bluegrass Award winner Willie Stratton has proven time and again that he can dive into any of rock ‘n’ roll’s various iterations as evidenced by him taking home the Gold for the 2022 Coast Best of Awards in the Folk and Country categories - and Bronze in the Blues Category.
For more than a decade now, Willie Stratton has been building his good name on stellar sonic shape-shifting. Stratton seeks synthesis: Drugstore Dreamin’ finds him playing alchemist, melting down the myriad sounds he’s mastered over the years to create singular sonic gold. As Stratton deftly weaves and mixes musical forms, Drugstore Dreamin’s intoxicating concoction brings his timeless songwriting to the forefront.