The Waltons

A Canadian acoustic folk-rock trio who may be the real successors to Ian & Sylvia or 3’s a Audience, the Waltons produce low-key, generally acoustic music that thankfully bypasses the twin keep traps of preciousness and pretentiousness. The group produced in Regina, Saskatchewan, in 1987 when university close friends Jason Plumb (lead vocals and classical guitar), Keith Nakonechny (bass and vocals), and Dave Cooney (drums) started performing Plumb’s music in night clubs around city. After gigging around traditional western Canada for four years, the trio transferred to Toronto in 1991, where they quickly founded themselves within the flourishing local folk picture. Guitarist John Switzer, who experienced started upon this same circuit with Jane Siberry ten years before, found out the Waltons’ music and decided to make their debut recording, Lik My Trakter, that your group self-released in 1992. After bagging several local music honours, the Waltons had been authorized to Warner Music Canada, which reissued Lik My Trakter in Canada as well as the U.S. in 1993. For any tour using the Barenaked Women, keyboardist Todd Lumley was put into the group to flesh out their audio; he became a full-fledged person in the music group in 1994, exactly the same calendar year the group gained a Juno (the Canadian Grammy) for Greatest New Artist because of the gold-selling reissue of Lik My Trakter. Basic Human brain, a six-song EP of live monitors and early demos, premiered in early 1995, accompanied by the all-new Cock’s Crow, made by Barenaked Females manufacturer Michael Phillip Wojewoda. Dave Cooney still left the group right before that album’s tour, changed by Sean Bryson. The group came back in 1998 with the brand new Empire Resort, also made by Wojewoda.