CLASSIC COUNTRY COVERS

Love Hurts loves country music, and this 6-piece band of veteran Toronto musicians will make you love country music, too.

Established in 2022, Love Hurts has been breathing new life into bonafide country classics and forgotten gems, pinning heart wrenching 50s balladry alongside 70s outlaw swagger, and 90s honky-tonk revival with swooning 60s countrypolitan. From Patsy Cline to Linda Ronstadt, George Jones to George Strait, Love Hurts makes the cream of the country music songbook sound as fresh as the day it was made.

Fronted by two dynamic singers, Barbara Johnston and Lowell Sostomi, and back by a cracking band who eat country licks for breakfast, Love Hurts follows no guide but a great song: if the tune makes you weep, call your momma, drink 15 beers, or cuss out your ex, you just might hear it at Love Hurts’ next gig.

Long-time lovers of the genre will rejoice to hear Love Hurts’ faithful versions of old favourites, yet new ears to country will be won over by the excitement of their live shows. Dueling pedal-steel (Adrian Cook) and electric guitar (Shaun Hogan), and a down n’ dirty rhythm section that’ll make your grandma grin (Ty Rowles & Kyle Watt): Love Hurts puts on a live show that is not to be missed.

So calling all members of life’s rich pageant: in country music there’s a song for each of you. And if Love Hurts is playing, you’re all invited to the dance.