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Two of Canada’s greatest roots singer-songwriters have finally done what everyone has wanted for years. Dave Gunning and J.P. Cormier have released their first album together filled with original songs and rare covers with lush guitars and tight harmonies.
ABOUT GUNNING & CORMIER
Dave Gunning and J.P. Cormier are both from Nova Scotia, Canada. They are stellar, multi-award winning, solo musicians in their own right. Both have many awards to their credit, including being nominated for JUNO Awards (Canada’s Grammy). Together, their show is magic. Not just their individual musical skills, but their obvious friendship comes out in their stage banter. Dave, the storyteller, and J.P. the master of the guitar - it will be a rare night to remember for sure.
Gunning & Cormier go back 23 years when Dave had a fiddle player drop out of a show at the last minute. “He hired me for a gig when I was just back from Nashville, nobody knew me here,” says Cormier.
“We were totally blown away by J.P.’s playing,” recalls Gunning. “I remember him saying if you ever do a CD, I want to play on it.” That happened, and much more. They played together and wrote together whenever they could, coming up with songs that graced both their projects, over the years showered with awards and nominations on the East Coast and nationally.
“Dave is such a part of my life,” says Cormier. “Dave is like my family, he’s like a blood relative to me, and he’s always been that way. ” Gunning feels the same way. “Absolutely, we just became fast friends, and we’ve been working together ever since.”
Since they’ve been two of the busiest solo musicians in the country these past two decades, it’s been impossible to schedule time to make a full album and properly tour it. But that all changed three years ago when Cormier moved just down the road from Gunning in Nova Scotia’s Pictou County, and the pair were able to meet often at Gunning’s home studio.
Gunning & Cormier have been playing some select gigs over the past few months, in anticipation of the album’s release. “It seems to be a different kind of response from the audience that I’m not too sure that either of us have experienced be-fore,” says Gunning. “We love singing together, we love playing guitar together, it just works.”
Two is as real as it gets. Two songwriters, interpreters, guitar players, and singers at their peak. It’s the power of the song, the highest quality from the past to the now. It’s two friends, brothers, uncompromising performers, making the album of their lives. There couldn’t be a better time to discover Gunning & Cormier, and the power of Two.