Ontario-based Donovan Woods is one of my very favourite songwriters but, for whatever reason, I have never written about him. This is a gross injustice, with this year’s Don’t Get Too Grand in my top five albums of the year, and previous albums The Hold Up and The Widowmaker ranking among the top singer-songwriter releases in the past few years.
Woods also records new songs regularly and posts them on Soundcloud for us to enjoy. One of the newest, ‘I Saw On Facebook’, is a nice summation of his writing style – succinct songs that sad without being overly morose and a suggestion of a sense of humour. It’s a fine balance between sincerity and melodrama but, with his sprinkling of wry wit, I think you’ll find Woods has mastered it.
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So please do check out his previous releases, although think twice before just playing them on Spotify. Woods shared his sales figures on Twitter back in 2012:
“My latest Spotify sales: 3942 plays earns $16.47395627. Big time. Enough to buy a Bruce Springsteen CD.”