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Leslie Alexander

Leslie Alexander Radio

General Info

  • Genre: Folk / Rock / Roots Music

    Location Ashcroft, British Columbia, Ca

    Profile Views: 28800

    Last Login: 11/18/2011

    Member Since 5/9/2005

    Website www.lesliealexander.com

    Record Label Superoops Records / PHD Canada Distribution

    Type of Label Unsigned

  • Bio

    “Even Dylan would love this,” said View Magazine about music from Leslie Alexander, who grew up on an Alberta sheep farm & couldn't wait to hit the road, make a bunch of mistakes & write songs about them. She wound up singing on a street corner for spare change & does not consider this a mistake. Since then, Leslie’s toured across North America, sharing concert and festival stages with her own band or opening for the likes of Jane Siberry, Barney Bentall, Mary Gauthier and many others. Three independent CD releases have garnered critical acclaim, international airplay and honorable mentions from the ISC and Billboard Song Competitions, as well as cuts with other artists & licenses for television & film. Joining forces with performing songwriter Jenny Allen, Leslie workshopped material for her fourth studio release as one half of the new duo “Allen & Alexander” on their “Love’m or Leave’em Tour 2010.” Sharing vocals, multiple instruments and much in common with her fellow native Albertan, Leslie is rapidly filling her calendar as the pair travel “clean across Canada” on their upcoming “Dirty Laundry Dual CD Release Tour 2011.” “The music & material go hand in hand to create a landscape that's familiar, yet filled with so much to explore," said the Calgary Sun about Leslie’s second record “Savage Country.” Today, Leslie is still exploring, but the landscape of “Nobody’s Baby” is internal, as well as evocative of new horizons. Along with BCCMA Producer of the Year John Ellis (Be Good Tanyas, Jane Siberry) Alexander covers territory between the personal and universal with ten startlingly original tunes that haunt the listener like déjà vu. On disc or onstage, tracing influences from Tin Pan Alley to swamp rock, from hootenanny to honky-tonk, Leslie’s songs about old flames and fresh blood will take you all the beautiful and terrifying places she’s been.

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  • Influences

    My parents, Emily of New Moon, Anne of Green Gables, the Girl of the Limberlost, halloween, the Lennon Sisters, Sunshine Superman, Dream Weaver, Catholicism, CKXL, mean girls, Mrs. Rigeaux, Jeff Butler, Ma Crosby, Camp Columbus, John Denver, the silence of the lambs, Supertramp, Fleetwood Mac, lilacs, the Boss, rednecks, the prairie, Henry David Thoreau, Brenda Anderson, Jane Siberry, Pink Floyd, Grant Reddick, Led Zeppelin, marijuana, vodka, Ted Straughan, busking, Back Alley John, Scott Peck, Ron Halliday, Michael Malcolm, AA, C.S. Lewis, Carl Sagan, Robert Frost, Tom Waits, Tom Wolfe, Neil Young, Linda McRae, William Blake, Father Bob, Rickie Lee Jones, Steve Earle, John Ellis, Thor Froslev .... .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ......

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  1. Leslie Alexander

    Allen & Alexander has a show on 2012-05-28 at 20:00 @ Ironwood Stag... in Calgary, AB http://lnk.ms/bzjJM #concert

  2. Leslie Alexander

    Allen & Alexander has a show on 2012-05-28 at 20:00 @ Ironwood Stag... in Calgary, AB http://lnk.ms/bzg8v #concert

  3. Leslie Alexander

    Leslie Alexander has a show on 2012-05-26 at 20:00 @ The Stop in Black Diamond, AB http://lnk.ms/bymN9 #concert

  4. Leslie Alexander

    Allen & Alexander has a show on 2012-05-26 at 20:00 @ The Stop in Black Diamond, AB http://lnk.ms/c6zGh #concert

  5. Leslie Alexander

    Glad to be on the prairie under a full moon.

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