Dennis Victor Allen

Genre: Blues
Secondary Genre: Singer/Songwriter Whitehorse, Yukon Canada Contact

Dennis Allen is an intoxicating brew of Stevie Ray Vaughn's tone, Muddy Waters' attitude, and Billy Joe Shaver's soul. His songs have the country twang of a good Rolling Stones song and his blues guitar playing is right out of an afternoon jam at Antone's.

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Artist Information

Biography

"Dennis was one of the highlights at the Dawson City Music Festival. A true northern frontier songwriter!"
Tim Hus - Stony Plain Records Recording Artist

"Dennis Allen addresses songwriting with a sly wit and insightful mind. His warmth and dry humour charms an audience."
Rick Fines
Maple Blues Award Winner
Juno Award Nominee

Honorable Mention
American Songwriter Magazine.

A singer-songwriter from Whitehorse Yukon, Dennis is a local favorite with his storytelling and quick wit. His songs are honest and heartfelt. Dennis is a late bloomer. But like fine wine, he's getting tastier by the year.

Instrumentation

Dennis Allen-lead guitar, acoustic guitar, harmonica
Bruce Bergman-lead guitar, acoustic guitar, silde guitar, bass, mandolin.
Jordy Walker-lead guitar, acoustic guitar, bass
Ed White-drums

Discography

Wayward Son LP

Audio

Lyrics

Video

Best of his kind-MPEG-4 - Webcasting.mp4

redskin3.mp4

Photo Gallery

  • Wayward Son

  • At the Goldpanner Saloon in Whitehorse Yukon

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  • My son Hayden and I at Inuvik NWT

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  • My first guitar, a used piece of plywood with a neck as crooked as Nixon

  • I opened for Buffy St. Marie in Whitehorse Yukon

  • At Festfest Crag Lake Yukon, Kevin Barr's place

  • The greatest storytelling teacher, my late father Victor Allen

  • With The Hellhounds at the Dawson City Music Festival

  • With my good friend Diga Wolf in Yellowknife NWT

  • Some of the beautiful guitars we used on Wayward Son

  • At the South Slave Friendship Festival in Fort Smith NWT

  • Tracking Bootlegger's Daughter at Rainbow Studios in Whitehorse Yukon

  • On the mainstage at the Dawson City Music Festival

  • Late night jam at Folk on the Rocks in Yellowknife NWT

Press

  • Sweet Home Inuvik [+ Show ]

    "Red Skin Indian Dirt Road Reservation Blues, brings a uniquely northern perspective to the common b...

  • Dennis Allen brings it on home. [+ Show ]

    Dennis Victor Allen's Country: Powerful, Pure And Simple Get Right with Jesus. This is one of those...

Setlist

I do three (3) forty-five minute sets. I do all twelve originals off of my album as well as covers.

Set One (originals)
1. Just Like The Movies
2. Learning How To Dance
3. Thirty More Days
4. Wayward Son
5. Fool’s Love
6. Big Bad Woman Blues
7. Red Skin Indian Blues
8. Get Right With Jesus
9. Stolen Roses
10. Bootlegger’s Daughter
11. Tough Times
12. Travellin’ Man

Set Two: (covers)
1. Sweet Virginian (Rolling Stones)
2. Don’t Think Twice (Bob Dylan)
3. Ode to Billy Joe (Bobby Gentry)
4. I’m going to live forever (Billy Joe Shaver)
5. Ain’t Nothin’ To Me (Johnny Winter)
6. Cocaine (Jackson Brown)
7. Streets of Balitmore (Gram Parsons)
8. John Hardy (Traditional)
9. Tennessee Stud (Doc Watson)
10. She Thinks I still Care (Ricky Lee)
11. Lonesome Whistle (Hank Williams)
12. Sweet Home Chicago (Eric Clapton)

Set three: (covers)
1. Boy Names Sue (Johnny Cash)
2. Speed of the sound of Lonliness (John Prine)
3. Old Hippie (Bellamy Brothers)
4. Before you Accuse Me (Buddy Guy)
5. Far Away Eyes (Rolling Stones)
6. Sixteenth Avenue (Lacy J. Dalton)
7. Key to the Highway (Sonny Terry, Brownie McGee)
8. Honkey Tonk Blues (Hank Williams)
9. Give my Love to Rose (Johnny Cash)
10. The Weight (The Band)
11. Shame on the Moon (Bob Seger)
12. Looking for me Somewhere (The Bodeans)

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