Releases Bio Live Photos Merch Videos Contact New Single "Drugstore Dreamin'" Now Available Willie Stratton Willie Stratton Awards INSTAGRAM FACEBOOK TWITTER BANDCAMP SPOTIFY APPLE YOUTUBE In the shop today and tomorrow, book in! Link in b Made a sassy pickguard for my Yamaha! I’ll be t Shop vibes ✨ Come hang! 💈 💈book up, link in bio! 💈 Back in town and ready to snip! I’ll be around 9 Had such a wonderful time on the road with the inc 🦊 #foxontherun #cover #countrymusic #bluegrass Coming down to the last sh
For more than a decade now, Willie Stratton has been building his good name on stellar sonic shape-shifting. The Halifax-based singer-songwriter has proven time and again that he can dive into any of rock ‘n’ roll’s various iterations—heartsick blues, twanged-up country, hip-shaking rockabilly, groovy surf, anything and everything in between—and emerge, again, as a maestro of the style. But on his new long-player, Stratton seeks synthesis: Drugstore Dreamin’ finds him playing alchemist, melting down the myr
It’s not quite a new frontier for Stratton—he’s intimately acquainted with all the different vibes you’ll hear on Drugstore Dreamin’ —but you’ve never heard him quite like this. Lyrically, too, Stratton delivers a dose of gravitas as-yet unheard in his catalogue, as he and his characters grapple with the pain of loss, of growth, of sallying forth; defeats both intimate and grand in scope; and failure to break old habits.