Welcome To Hat Creek Records

Hat Creek Records is committed to quality music. We connect with singer-song writers around the world to get the music to you. We help you get the best music available. We have strong musical knowledge and can match your individual needs to the music. At Hat Creek Records, we pride ourselves on giving expert advice in a pressure free environment. It’s about world music with local flavour. Hat Creek Records is a resource for the music and arts community in Alberta and beyond. You can find CDs and vinyl here from all over the world at Hat Creek Records.

Hat Creek Records receives support from the Silk Road Arts Council of Hat Creek, Alberta.

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David Myles Will Be Touring Alberta

Whitehorse – Whitehorse

Whitehorse is a new name but the two principals are familiar in Canada.  Individually, Melissa McClelland and Luke Doucet are Whitehorse.  They are already two of most acclaimed roots-oriented singer-songwriters in Canada. They are now reinventing themselves as Whitehorse and have released their first self-titled CD Whitehorse.  But as Doucet and McClelland explain, their joint project is much more than a simple diversion from their day jobs.  Their new album is about bringing their two fan bases together. There is a lot of overlap already, but  by bringing some of their old material together and putting it in a new light and then changing the tunes around it is a good way of introducing this new band.

The pair came up with most of the instrumentation on Whitehorse, with Doucet’s former bandmate Barry Mirochnick playing most of the drums. The bulk of the sessions took place at Hamilton, ON studio Catherine North, with Michael Chambers doing the engineering and mixing.  The result is eight songs totalling 24 minutes.  This is a record.  It is a very short record but it is an album.  They have lots of material and plan to release another record next year.

McClelland and Doucet are married and have worked together extensively prior to the creation of Whitehorse. Doucet has produced the last three McClelland albums.  They frequently accompany each other out on their individual gigs and both tour extensively as members of Sarah McLachlan’s band.

McClelland and Doucet have acknowledged that working together as Whitehorse has brought some changes to their joint working methods.  Doucet has been involved in giving his two cents on McClelland’s songs and telling her what he thinks isn’t working.    They have arranged and rearranged songs together, but not to the extent they are with Whitehorse.  Here, they are actually bringing ideas to each other and finishing them for each other.   Doucet is the producer on the album and so his producer’s role establishes a hierarchy in the studio.  On this project, Doucet thinks they have levelled the playing field.

Whitehorse definitely has more of a sound than either of their solo careers have had.  In support of their album, Whitehorse have a string of tour dates set for the U.S. and Canada.  They’ll be Alberta in April 2012.

Here Are Our Top 10 in 2011

Kiran Alhuwalia – aam zameen

Laura Marling – A Creature I Don’t Know

David Myles – Into The Sun

Tom Russell – Mesabi

Merle Haggard – Working in Tennesse