Julie Doiron
Birth name Julie Elaine Doiron
Also known as Broken Girl
Born June 28, 1972
Origin Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada
Genres Folk rock, indie rock
Occupation(s) Musician, singer-songwriter, photographer
Instruments Vocals, guitar, bass, drums
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Julie Doiron (born June 28, 1972 in Moncton, New Brunswick) is an award-winning Canadian singer-songwriter of Acadian heritage.
Doiron started playing guitar (later switching to bass) in Eric’s Trip at the age of 18, having joined the band at the insistence of her then-boyfriend, Eric’s Trip guitarist Rick White. Shortly before the band’s break-up in 1996, she released a solo album under the name Broken Girl, which followed two previous 7″ EPs (“Dog Love, Pt. 2” & “Nora”) also released under that name. All of her subsequent material has been released under her own name. Although most of her solo material has been written and performed in English, she also released an album of French language material, Désormais.
In 1999, Doiron recorded an album with the Ottawa band Wooden Stars, which was the first time she had worked with a band since the end of Eric’s Trip. She shared a Juno Award for Julie Doiron and the Wooden Stars in March 2000.
Eric’s Trip reunited in 2001, and have played shows periodically ever since. She has also appeared as a guest musician on albums by The Tragically Hip (2000s Music at Work), Gordon Downie (2001’s Coke Machine Glow, 2003’s Battle of the Nudes and 2010’s The Grand Bounce), and Herman Düne. She has also released a split record co-credited to the alternative country band Okkervil River, and collaborated with American musician Phil Elverum on the 2008 Mount Eerie album Lost Wisdom. She played with indie rock band Shotgun & Jaybird until their demise in 2007. She also played drums as part of a short-lived duo with Fred Squire. Initially called “Blue Heeler”, they changed their name to “Calm Down Its Monday”, and released a split 7″ EP on K Records, with 2 solo Julie songs on the flip side.
Apart from her musical career, Doiron is an avid photographer, having published a book of her photographs entitled The Longest Winter with words by Ottawa writer Ian Roy. She often does her own promotional photos and cover artwork along with her ex-husband, painter Jon Claytor.
Her album Woke Myself Up was shortlisted for the 2007 Polaris Music Prize.
In 2016, Doiron collaborated with musicians Jon McKiel, C.L. McLaughlin, Michael C. Duguay, James Anderson and Chris Meaney on the project Weird Lines, whose self-titled album was released on Sappy Futures in July.
Discography
Studio albums
Broken Girl * (Sub Pop, Sappy) – 1996 (Reissued by Jagjaguwar with the “Dog Love, Pt. 2” & “Nora” EP’s as bonus tracks) – 2003
Loneliest in the Morning (Sub Pop, Jagjaguwar (reissue with bonus tracks)) – 1997
Will You Still Love Me? * (Tree Records, Sappy) – 1999
Julie Doiron and the Wooden Stars (Tree, Sappy) – 1999, Jagjaguwar (CD reissue in 2002, vinyl only re-issue in 2013)
Désormais * (Jagjaguwar, Endearing Records) – 2001
Heart and Crime (Jagjaguwar, Endearing) – 2002
Goodnight Nobody (Jagjaguwar, Endearing) – 2004
Woke Myself Up (Jagjaguwar, Endearing) – 2007
I Can Wonder What You Did with Your Day (Jagjaguwar, Endearing) – 2009
So Many Days (Aporia Records) – 2012
Albums marked with * have not been issued on vinyl LP
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