Lasting, even the hard way, is not everyone’s lot. We all the more admire those who tirelessly persist in making themselves seen and heard, at home and elsewhere. Twenty years after the Gala de la chanson de Caraquet, we find Daniel Léger. Let’s measure: two groups, five solo albums, a performance hall, a multimedia project for children, a pandemic in the way, and now what’s next. A cowboy record with bruises in his boots. Not many illusions still hold, but the guy is not afraid of anything, not even commonplace country songs. An Acadian George Jones is Daniel Léger in allow me : “In the clichés, I’m going to fall / Like poor rhymes / In a diary”. When he sings “one day when I grow up…”, the sequel is hard to swallow: “… I’ll stuff myself with pills to face tomorrow”. Dare that, in song! And it passes. And it feels good. Blues that we face, that we cross, while singing: I prescribe this album to you.
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