Biography
Jason MacIsaac (Canada) began the Heavy Blinkers as a solo studio project in Halifax, Nova Scotia in 1997. The band’s debut, Hooray For Everything, was engineered by Andrew Watt, who also helped out with songwriting, vocals and keyboards, while Ruth Minnikin and Greg Fry from Halifax alt country associates the Guthries provided vocals and drums respectively, and Trevor Forbes added bass. It was not until 2000’s self-titled second album that the Heavy Blinkers became a fully functioning quintet. The band’s starting point is a love of the songwriting and arrangements of Brian Wilson, Curt Boettcher and Van Dyke Parks, and their sound is coloured by the three-way harmonies provided by MacIsaac, Watt and Minnikin. An allegiance with contemporaries such as the High Llamas and Rufus Wainwright also comes across in their recorded work, with songs often characterised by baroque instrumentation, while the content of the lyrics often counters the sunshine with...
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