Raised in Chicago and residing in Nashville, Doug Hoekstra's perchance for painting musical landscapes has been lauded by critics, djs, and fans throughout the United States and Europe, earning him a well-deserved reputation as a writer of range with an ear for a phrase and an eye for detail. CMJ Music Monthly has called him a "songwriter's songwriter" and Wired marveled that while "a lot of people write songs; Hoekstra writes five-minute worlds."
Hoekstra's gentle baritone anchors his work, song cycles that find him spinning one story after the other against a backdrop of memorable melodies and resounding rhythms, transporting the listener to lands of truth, beauty, and possibility, not by ignoring the sad state of the world, but by being welcome to its realities. To date, Hoekstra has released seven full-length CDs and one EP on assorted independent labels.
His work has received rave press in the likes of the world's biggest music magazines, ala Billboard, CMJ Music Monthly, Comes With a Smile, Goldmine, Heaven, Magnet, OOR, Rolling Stone Germany, Uncut, and more; performed on such "high-value" radio programs as Acoustic Café, All Songs Considered, World Café, WPLN's Songwriter Sessions (Nashville), BBC's Arts Show (Edinburgh), Celtic Connections (Glasgow), and London Drive-Time Live. Live he's toured extensively throughout the United States and Europe, but when at home in Nashville, he hangs with his wife, Molly, son Jude Aaron, and cats Sienna and Zeke. He is also a prose writer, his short fiction having appeared in numerous literary magazines.
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