Dougie Poole - Live au Tubby's [White]

At Tubby's captures Dougie Poole and two longtime musicians on one of those nights where the room, the audience and the songs are in perfect harmony, now available on white vinyl.

Poole spent years writing country songs about modern indignities, odd jobs, screens, weed and the slow pace of survival, all delivered in a baritone voice warm enough that the jokes never went wrong. Reduced to a trio with Mike Etten on electric guitar and James Wyatt Woodall on pedal steel, the songs gain space and lose nothing. These three have clearly been playing together long enough to read each other's minds. The entire concert was recorded primarily from the mixing board directly to analog tape, lightly mixed by Poole himself and mastered by Carl Saff.

“Los Angeles” opens with Etten’s classic country riffs wrapping around pedal steel, and it sets the tone for everything that follows. “Vaping on the Job” is the catchy song, funnier live than on record. “Toshiba Sky,” a one-off digital single from 2020, is finally coming to vinyl, and “Heaven Sent an Angel (We Got Stoned)” is a brand new song, featuring one of the best choruses Poole has written.

Live albums are usually keepsakes. This one is the version of these songs you will be looking for.