{"id":43469,"date":"2026-03-04T22:31:22","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T21:31:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/?p=43469"},"modified":"2026-03-04T22:31:47","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T21:31:47","slug":"paul-langlois","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/2026\/03\/paul-langlois\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Langlois"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-43470\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/paul-langlois-smooth-rock-falls.png?resize=200%2C200&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/paul-langlois-smooth-rock-falls.png?resize=200%2C200&amp;ssl=1 200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/paul-langlois-smooth-rock-falls.png?resize=75%2C75&amp;ssl=1 75w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/paul-langlois-smooth-rock-falls.png?resize=144%2C144&amp;ssl=1 144w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/paul-langlois-smooth-rock-falls.png?w=486&amp;ssl=1 486w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/PaulLangloisMusic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Paul Langlois<\/a> was bijna vanaf het begin de tweede gitarist in The Tragically Hip. Al tijdens het bestaan van die band maakte hij twee albums onder eigen naam, te weten <em>Fix This Head<\/em> (2010) en <em>Not Guilty<\/em> (2013). Na de dood van bandleider Gordon Downie in 2017 kwam Langlois in 2024 met <em>Guess What<\/em> en nu verschijnt van hem <strong>Smooth Rock Falls<\/strong> (Ching Music Inc.\/Fontana North). Zijn naam is nooit eerder gevallen op deze site, maar dit album is in ieder geval een echte aanrader. Met <em>There\u2019s Nothing Wrong<\/em> en <em>MorningGuyNightGuy<\/em> besluit hij met twee nummers die fans van Lou Reed zullen bekoren. De Canadees <!--more-->zit wel vaker qua sound in New York, bijvoorbeeld op <em>No Problem In The Daylight<\/em> met die felle, afgemeten gitaarakkoorden. En de hoekige sound van <em>Construin\u2019<\/em> heeft wel wat van Talking Heads met wat popglans van Cavedogs. <em>Hardly Holding On<\/em> klinkt dreigend, het is alt-rock zoals het in de jaren 90 gedaan werd. Met <em>Wrapped In A Bow<\/em> lijkt Langlois middels kronkelend gitaarspel zowaar een lijntje te leggen tussen Pixies en Woodcocks. <em>How You Are?<\/em> roept Afghan Whigs uit diezelfde tijd in herinnering. Dat alles wil niet zeggen dat deze stevige rockplaat alle kanten opgaat. Langlois schreef de nummers met de dood van zijn beide ouders in het achterhoofd. Een oude familiefoto siert de cover. Opgenomen met een complete band in de Bathouse Recording Studio waar The Tragically Hip ook vaak te vinden was en geproduceerd door de musicus zelf.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"No Problem In The Daylight\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wFlp_xY1A78?list=OLAK5uy_l2Kz37jBRkKJrq5odq-bh92emj8bzUVC8\" width=\"440\" height=\"300\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Langlois was bijna vanaf het begin de tweede gitarist in The Tragically Hip. Al tijdens het bestaan van die band maakte hij twee albums onder eigen naam, te weten Fix This Head (2010) en Not Guilty (2013). Na de dood van bandleider Gordon Downie in 2017 kwam Langlois in 2024 met Guess What en [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recensies"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43469"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43472,"href":"https:\/\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43469\/revisions\/43472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}