Melissa McClelland – Victoria Day (Remastered 2025) (2009/2025) [FLAC 24bit/44,1kHz]

Melissa McClelland – Victoria Day (Remastered 2025) (2009/2025)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 45:17 minutes | 500 MB | Genre: Pop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Six Shooter Records Inc.

2009 release. Melissa McClelland’s vocal virtuosity, crystalline and luminescent, transports lyrics of a much darker design. Sometimes bawdy, often bloodied, and always intriguing, Melissa sings of bruised hearts and broken bones, trigger-happy renegades and contrived innocence. In spite of all the impurities of human nature explored throughout Victoria Day, her first release on Six Shooter Records, Melissa remains an unblemished figure with a vocal dexterity matched by a superb backing band. Victoria Day is a modern mix of retro guitar tones courtesy of both Melissa and producer Luke Doucet, who brings a reverence for a true vintage feel to string arrangements, piano, upright bass and punchy drums. The album blends a deliciously dirty sound with the sparkling voice that has captured the hearts of heavy-hitters Blue Rodeo, Sarah McLachlan and Jesse Cook. Warner.Melissa McClelland’s music is rootsy with touches of blues, jazz, country, and folk-rock. Husband Luke Doucet (a guitarisit who played in Sarah McLachlan’s touring band), produced this set and for McClelland’s third solo outing, he brings the same attention to detail to his wife’s work that he brings to his own studio efforts. All of McClelland’s tunes have compelling melodies and a considerable lyrical flair. She opens the album with the laid-back rockabilly of “A Girl Can Dream,” which, with its loping beat and Doucet’s restrained solo, calls to mind the early Elvis Presley staple “Tryin’ to Get to You.” “God Loves Me” is a sad blues that tells the story of a backwoods party girl who flirts with disaster every time she picks up a man; McClelland’s understated vocal, an ominous guitar solo from Doucet, and sustained chords from Steve O’Connor’s big Hammond B-3 give the tune a moody feel. “Victoria Day (May Flowers)” is a jaunty ragtime tune about living beyond one’s means, with McClelland’s lively vocal laughing at the thought of the money running out. Doucet drops a swinging, jazzy, Texas-flavored solo while the horn section blares with abandon. With players gathered from the couple’s touring bands, Doucet has no trouble getting a clean, precise sound that lets each tune shine and keeps the focus where it belongs, on McClelland’s luminous vocals. – j. poet

Tracklist:

1-1. Melissa McClelland – A Girl Can Dream (Remastered 2025) (03:00)
1-2. Melissa McClelland – Glenrio (Remastered 2025) (05:25)
1-3. Melissa McClelland – Segovia (Remastered 2025) (05:10)
1-4. Melissa McClelland – God Loves Me (Remastered 2025) (04:55)
1-5. Melissa McClelland – Victoria Day (April Showers) (Remastered 2025) (01:45)
1-6. Melissa McClelland – Victoria Day (May Flowers) (Remastered 2025) (04:00)
1-7. Melissa McClelland – I Blame You (Remastered 2025) (02:37)
1-8. Melissa McClelland – Cry On My Shoulder (Remastered 2025) (04:49)
1-9. Melissa McClelland – When the Lights Went off in Hogtown (Remastered 2025) (03:56)
1-10. Melissa McClelland – Seasoned Lovers (Remastered 2025) (03:05)
1-11. Melissa McClelland – Brake (Remastered 2025) (04:39)
1-12. Melissa McClelland – Money Shot (Remastered 2025) (01:52)

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