On Doug Paisley's third album “Strong Feelings”, featuring guest vocals from Mary Margaret O’Hara and contributions from Garth Hudson (The Band), the Toronto alt-country artist seeks refuge in the beauty of the romantic lyrical metaphors that have populated the country genre since at least the heyday of Hank Williams. Doug Paisley writes with a subtle beauty, with a steel-toed determination, with a twilit ache. Context, however, is everything in music. Otherwise, they wouldn't be songs; they'd be poetry.
