Slow Dance, Square Dance, Barn Dance

Slow Dance, Square Dance, Barn Dance delivers straight up traditional bluegrass balladry and honky-tonk crooning with authentic aplomb. Canadian-based, The Lucky Ones aptly describe their music as ‘honest old-time hillbilly music with a Yukon twist.’

An ageless quality pervades the all-original songs, which describe the life and demise of desperadoes (‘Kate and Dan’), grappling with hard truths (‘Goodbye Train’), dousing heartache with hard drink (‘Fifth of You’) and discovering quirky romantic bliss in the land of long-abandoned silver mines (‘Keno City Love Song’). Recorded inside the Anglican Cathedral of the Diocese of Yukon, The Lucky Ones’ sophomore album features core members Ian Smith (guitar, vocals), JD McCallen (guitar, vocals), Ryan James West (mandolin, guitar, vocals), Kieran Poile (fiddle, vocals), Jeff Dinely (upright bass) and Ryan McNally (banjo/pedal steel). The guest list includes Aaron P Burnie (banjo), Hayley Warden (upright bass), Akilena Jóhansson (accordion) and backing vocalist Jo Lane Dillman.