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Cam Penner doesn’t so much sing songs as summon them up like a medium calling up spirits. His gentle growl can become a Delta howl, as if he is the conduit, a mere medium articulating the blues of a whole continent, emanating from a bottomless well of shared everyman experience. His remarkably sympathetic foil and musical cohort, electric guitar and lap steel sound sculptor Jon Wood, conjures up sound and colour, building spaces where ghosts dwell and shadows beckon. The distinctive flow, the masterful musical bonding and the overall atmosphere they create is both endearing and humbling. They make you want to listen closely to every word and each hand-crafted note. Their unrivaled attention-demanding presence marks this duo apart from other acts.

Cam Penner & Jon Wood have been moving audiences for the last ten years. They have toured their traveling show extensively through Canada and Europe. The symphony of sound and lyricism showcase the inevitable evolution of this duo. The live show is as fragile as it is grand. Like watching a tight rope walker or a trapeze artist at work. It’s folk. It’s rock n’ roll. It’s Cam Penner and Jon Wood breathing fire into every note and lyric.

Cam Penner’s new album, Sex & Politics, is fearless. It swaggers playfully with confidence and bravado, tumbling along with a mighty roar. The singer-songwriter, and his hugely-inventive musical cohort, tucked themselves away for a solid ten days in Cam’s homemade recording machine tucked in the woods behind his remote British Columbia home. There are moments it draws you in close, seducing, building spaces where ghosts dwell and shadows beckon, and then the pulse quickens, releasing a symphony of sound and colour. It is bold and extraordinarily subtle in places as percussive elements combine with layered guitar and effect techniques to bolster the muscular texture. Sex & Politics is further testament to Penner & Wood's musical migration into new territory.

Canadian Cam Penner is an international touring singer/song-writer. His music has been featured on NPR’s, All Music Considered, BBC’s 2016 mini-series Stonemouth, and has charted on the Folk Billboard Chart’s Top Twenty.


Sex & Politics
[2016]

TRACK LISTING:
1. I'm Calling Out
2. I Belileve
3. Broke Down
4. Hey You! (Lovers of Music)
5. Come Back to Me
6. Cheating & Robbing
7. Can't Afford the Blues
8. Honey
9. Bring Forth the Healing
10. Look Out Your Window

To Build A Fire
[2013]

TRACK LISTING:
1. Mighty Damn Animator
    (So Long, Farewell)
2. To Build A Fire
3. This Could Be Your Anthem
4. Rivers Forgotten
5. No Consequence
6. Memphis
7. Curiosity
8. Gasoline Summers
9. House Of Liars
10. Whiskey Lips

Gypsy Summer
[2011]

TRACK LISTING:
1. Driftwood
2. Gypsy Woman
3. Ghost Car
4. Cool Cool Nights
5. Hour Of Need
6. Flesh & Bone
7. My Lover & I
8. Hey My My My
9. Throw Your Hands Up
10. Driftwood (Reprise)
11. Come As You Are

Trouble & Mercy
[2009]

TRACK LISTING:
1. All Of Yesterday
2. Thirteen
3. She's In My Head
4. Trouble & Mercy
5. Too Tired To Pray
6. Roam
7. Once A Soldier
8. Tired Of This Town
9. If You Love Somebody
10. Peace Of Mind
11. You Are Gold

Balsam Fir
[2008]

TRACK LISTING:
1. Balsam Fir
2. Once A Soldier
3. If You Love Somebody
4. Bootlegger (Alternate Vs.)

Felt Like A Sunday Night
[2005]

TRACK LISTING:
1. Rye Whiskey
2. I've Got You
3. Tried n' True
4. Eight Days
5. October
6. No Stars In The City
7. Manitoba
8. Be Kind
9. Downtown
10. Walk On
11. Lonesome As Me
12. Last Train Home

Get Up
[2003]

TRACK LISTING:
1. Gravel Truck
2. This Old Town
3. Why Did You Come Here
4. Bo Jingle Jangle
5. Met Her On A Monday
6. When I Die
7. Come Back To Me
8. Could Of Been A Better Day
9. Over My Head
10. Drunken Fights
11. Get Up

Drive
[2002]

TRACK LISTING:
1. Bootlegger
2. 1000 Miles
3. My Darlin' Dear
4. I Think About You
5. Montana Sky
6. Taste Of Nicotine
7. The Waltz