David Storey - Made in Canada (2019)

Recorded live off the floor at Operation Northwood studios, made in Canada is the culmination of David Storey’s multi-decade career spent performing in coffeehouses, church basements, art galleries, taverns, intimate venues (Hugh’s Room) and festivals (Winterfolk, Orangeville Blues and Roots Festival). The collective wisdom of touring and creating has resulted in this, his third and most fully-realized album yet.

Thoughtful, witty and always accentuating the positive, as he delves into the gritty characters portrayed in these songs, this well-regarded songwriter proves with made in Canada – as he has done with 2012’s Movin’ On and 2015’s Coming Home…that David is one hell of a Storeyteller.

Best known as executive producer and director of the iconic comedy series and movie Corner Gas and its more recent animated sibling, David Storey is also the quintessential songwriter.

Co-produced, engineered and mixed by Darryl Neudorf (Neko Case, The Weather Station,) made in Canada’s nine pithy, unforgettable songs resonate with quality and life lessons, his canvas including natural landscapes and human empathy, whether they’re Storey solo performances or in full band mode with his trusted four-piece Side Road Scholars.

Demonstrating wry wit and penetrating insights about life’s challenges, characters and passions – delivered with both humor and poignance – David Storey unfolds made in Canada’s captivating folk, folk-rock and Canadiana journey with an honesty that prompted both NOW and Toronto Life to declare his music “a beautifully rendered mix of intelligent songs” and Blues and Roots Radio to also rave: “There’s a strong current flowing through these songs; a sense of those things that abide, that endure, that remain an indelible part of who we are.”