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The Freelancer's Blues

by Dougie Poole

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woe_bonnet A gorgeous, earnest album that plays like Roy Orbison and The Boss on diazepam. Rolls from my heart direct to Magic Mountain's Rio Grande... Favorite track: To Not Have a Brain.
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Mitch Mitcherson Howdy. I admire Dougie Poole for proving you can elevate country/honky tonk in a unique perhaps even an unusual way organically. There are tons of sounds here that still have the same appeal of earlier artists of this genre just with some extra vibrancy. This may sound experimental at first but it’s accessible and as a full album is solid all the way through. Killer production. Yeehaw, I’ll be seeing him play in Tucson at HOCO Fest. Favorite track: Buddhist for a Couple Days.
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mullethut Dougie, A friend of mine introduced me to Vaping on the Job because it showed up on his Spotify, I then listened to all your music and can't get enough of it. Los Angeles and Buddhist for a Couple Days are two of my favorite songs on this album. Favorite track: Los Angeles.
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Because of delays stemming from Covid 19, the digital will be out on 6/12 and the physical will ship and be in-stores on 7/10.

About 'The Freelancer's Blues'

'The Freelancer’s Blues,' the second full-length LP from Brooklyn’s country crooner Dougie Poole, captures its cur-rent moment like nothing else. Poole updates the story-telling backbone of country music for an audience that is young, urban, romantically alienated and financially pre-carious, using the same threads spun by Merle Haggard, Willie Nelson and Kris Kristofferson before him to write his own anthems for a new generation of country music fans. With his debut album 'Wideass Highway' Dougie Poole established himself as forerunner in a class of musicians who grew up in a post-genre ecosystem equally as likely to be influenced by Ariel Pink and Animal Collective as Dolly Parton and Dwight Yoakam. On The Freelancer’s Blues, Dougie graduates from drum machine and synthesizer bedroom country to a full band with honky-tonk harmonies, wailing pedal steel, and carefully constructed arrangements. Produced by Jonathan Schenke (PC Worship, Gong Gong Gong, Public Practice) The Free-lancer’s Blues does the seemingly impossible of staying true to Poole’s heritage in the DIY scenes of New York and Providence, while simultaneously certifying him as a country music bonafide.

About Dougie Poole

Dougie Poole is a musician and songwriter living in Brooklyn, New York. Coming of age in Providence, he dabbled in heavier and more experimental music before maturing into a country auteur. He writes earnestly about his experience (life in the big city, heartbreak in the digital age) and approaches country as an experimental music form, as well as a tradition. He has shared tours nationally with Jerry Paper, Still Corners and Bong Wish, and in 2019 guested on the Drugdealer album 'Raw Honey.'

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released June 12, 2020

Produced by Jonathan Schenke

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Dougie Poole Brooklyn, New York

New York based Country Singer/Songwriter.

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