You can go ahead and just dance to the music of George Canyon, if that's what you want. He's a country neo-traditionalist par excellence, producing music situated somewhere between the bright and studio-tooled Nashville ideal and something a little older, with a voice that can soar with emotion or linger in a heavy bottom-end that feels like a kick in the chest from a faith healer. It's instant.



When you see the man, with piercing eyes that hang above his square jaw, the star appeal becomes even more obvious, and you remember all those achievements – the string of hits, a shelf-full of Junos and Canadian Country Music Awards, not to mention his rocket-ride to American fame on Nashville Star 2 in 2004, and the subsequent blockbuster albums One Good Friend, and Somebody Wrote Love.



But there's more to Canyon; a gravity evident in songs like 2007's "I Want You To Live", and which leaps from the title song of Canyon's newest album, What I Do.



"If you were to pick a theme for any of my albums," he says, "it's always gonna be somewhat to do with my family, somewhat to do with moral issues, maybe miracles, and faith for sure. My faith plays a very important part in my life. If it wasn't for that I'd probably be long gone. Who knows where?"



"What I Do" will resonate with anybody who's ever raised a kid, since it describes with diamond precision the gentle act of chaperoning a child