Appearing on the Forthcoming Renaissance Records Debut, “The Last Troubadour” Produced by David Kershenbaum
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song is the first single off Doctor Fish’s album, The Last Troubadour which
will be released this February 2023.
Harry Chapin” is a story song about young Doctor Fish singing a weekly gig at a folk music club. Each night, Cathy the waitress badgers him to sing a Harry song. When he finally asks, “what she hears in Chapin's tunes,” Cathy responds, “you’ve got it backwards, kid. It’s what I hear in you.”
Indeed, Doctor Fish has similarities in his voice to the late activist songwriter. Like Harry, he pens story songs. Harry’s son Jason calls the song a “great tribute” to his father. Jen Chapin, Harry's daughter, and a singer-songwriter herself, will share mass media interviews with Doctor Fish in support of Harry’s birthday this December.
Superstar producer David Kershenbaum (Joan Baez, Tracy Chapman, Tori Amos, Joe Jackson) produced The Last Troubadour. The album features bassist Leland Sklar (James Taylor, Jackson Browne, Carole King), drummer Denny Fongheiser (Heart, Counting Crows, Shawn Colvin), and top studio musicians from around the world.
Doctor Fish is a real doctor, with a Ph.D. in ethnomusicology from the University of Michigan who created a thriving program of study for students of popular music at CATAWBA College, in Salisbury, North Carolina. Now living in the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill Triangle of NC, Doctor Fish is pursuing his interrupted dream as a storytelling folk-rock singer-songwriter.
Doctor
Fish grew up playing saxophone in Tucson, Arizona, and pursued jazz through
college at Western Michigan University. As a saxophonist, he backed legends
including Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, and Cher. Somewhere along the way,
the doctor picked up a guitar and began writing and singing songs.
