Coast 2 Coast Closeup – Laurie LeBlanc

Laurie LeBlanc is one of Canada’s rising country music stars, whose distinctive style contains a sizable helping of east coast Acadian flavor.

His latest album, When It’s Right It’s Right was produced by multi-CCMA and Juno award winner Jason Barry and featuring members of Dean Brody’s touring band. The results add up to LeBlanc’s most accomplished record to date, and a long-overdue introduction to English country music audiences.

Listeners in LeBlanc’s home province of New Brunswick and throughout the Maritimes and Quebec have long been familiar with his approach to country music, as When It’s Right It’s Right also marks a decade of success for the artist in the francophone music scene.  Audiences everywhere are now poised to experience the joy at the heart of LeBlanc’s sound, proving once again that success in country music is determined by great songs, no matter what language they’re in.

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