Doc Walker

Country trio Doc Walker traces its roots to rural Manitoba, Canada, where Portage La Prairie served as the childhood home of guitarists, vocalists, and songwriters Chris Thorsteinson, Dave Wasyliw, and Murray Pulver. Thorsteinson and Wasyliw had already launched the band Freedom alongside local performances by age 14, with Pulver three years their senior. The name later shifted to Doc Walker, at which point the project narrowed to a Thorsteinson-Wasyliw duo that played socials, fairs, and campgrounds. After issuing Good Day to Ride in 1997, they recruited guitar ace Pulver, who contributed to Curve in 2001, Everyone Aboard in 2003 (source of the radio hits "I Am Ready" and "The Show Is Free"), and the self-titled Doc Walker in 2006, which received Album of the Year at the 2007 Canadian Country Music Awards. Beautiful Life followed in 2008 and Go arrived in 2009.