About Our Old Pal Chris Doud
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Grew up in: Yreka, CA
Currently resides in: Oakdale, CA
What he plays/does: guitar, piano, bass tambo, trombone, sings songs, writes songs
Some time ago: played lead guitar for indie-rock bands
Influences: cash, dylan, haggard, diamond, rogers, cohen, driftwood, brown
Style: thrift store, indie, alt-pirate, alt-country
Sounds like: Driftwood meets Eastwood playing cards on a Chinese pirate vessel headed toward the Rock of the Lorelei on the Rhine River
Chris Doud is a singer/songwriter, solo performer, a 52-Week Club
charter member, Oakdale Music Collective member, co-frontman of The Good Luck Thrift Store Outfit
(alongside the illustrious Willy Tea, ex-Puffin' Billies),
frontman of the elusive Horsefinder, and the former lead guitarist of local indie-rock bands
Built Like Alaska and Fiver. A self-styled musician,
he is ideologically a folk singer, but in the storytelling, old-country, version of the genre, not the neo-folk,
political, social commentary version. He spends most of his lyrical output describing childhood adventures,
recollections of beauty, and ponderings on tales of the high seas.
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Albums
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52 Week Club Sampler is the culmination of Chris Doud's efforts as a member of the first
52 Week Club cycle
where members write a new song every week for one year. A 3-disc
collection of all 52 songs would have been a bit much, so a scaled-down, 20-track, single-disc album
of standouts was the compromise.
A bootleg series in four volumes of the complete 52 does exist somewhere but two people know one half
each of the combination to the lock which contains the masters,
and one of the people has fled the country (Deuce Carver) This collection contains everything from
children's songs, to western epics, to folk pleasantries.
Track List
It Won't Be Long (week: mooner)
Too Young (week: young when I left home)
Hat Size (week: hat size) (mp3)
Some Kind o' Classy (week: classy)
Sugar-envelopes-bread (week: turtle)
Chuck Heston (week: chuck)
Doubt It (week: doubt it)
Dunsmuir Days (week: lazy train)
My Gypsy Queen (week: gypsy (mp3)
Johnny Law (week: johnny law)
The 1st Day That I Metchya (week: shuffleboard) (mp3)
Lullaby (week: lullaby)
The Wolfman (week: chicken)
Tow Truck (week: tow truck)
Suit (week: suit)
Caught Up To Me (week: caught up)
Fishin' Hole (week: fishin' hole)
Just One Night (week: southern girls)
The Burden of Sea Captains (week: lightnin') (mp3)
Oh Sweet Babe (week: good luck fellas)
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Pirate Research is a collection of songs in a variety of styles,
representing the first serious solo album outing by Chris Doud.
There's some subtle indie-rock, some americana, some alt-pirate, some guitar work reminiscent of his Built Like Alaska and Fiver days,
and some vocals prelusive to his current Good Luck Thrift Store Outfit stylings.
Track List
thisby flute
ok (mp3)
story song (mp3)
lawn chairs
roller skater
every smuggler's run (mp3)
the malt-horse (pirate drunk) (mp3)
the last hoorah
whale as mean as you (mp3)
spacehelmet
rumplestiltskin
version 3
ten again
36 whistlin' petes
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Horse Found was a concept project, a collection of original songs that are
a kind of tribute to all the
great country styles of the past and present. While not trying to be ground-breaking in sonic awesomeness,
you will be charmed by tracks akin to Bob Wills or Merle Haggard, Jimmy Rogers or Junior Brown.
In true do-it-yourself fashion, Chris performed, engineered, and produced the album all in a short
amount of time, with limited equipment, and much vocal experimentation.
While the production quality is less than perfect, the songs stand up in a refreshing, punk rock, rough-mix demo tape,
kind of way.
Track List
Long Legs of the Law (mp3)
Little Bit o' Livin'
I Don't Remember (mp3)
My Day (mp3)
Highway Religion (mp3)
Uncle
One Wish
Lane-Changers (mp3)
The Family Resemblance
Rodeo
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