"The Best of Steve Coffey & The Lokels"
Available now on
Spotify, Apple Music, Youtube, ITunes
and other services soon.
The new album contains 20 of our most
listened to & requested songs
Songs are selected from the following albums
2002 East of East Coulee
2004 32 Below Sessions
2007 Same Boy
2009 Twirlin' Girl Boogie
2012 Bovine World Rail
*full physical albums are available by request - here
Steve Coffey &The Lokels
"It's Prairie music...vividly poetic images in a raw, intense form that owes as much to punk rock as to Woody Guthrie. Dark compelling work & Bare bones majestic magic."
- Victoria Times Colonist
"Can't get rootsier than this...prairie-roots music stomp and honky-tonk balladry."
- The Calgary Herald
"The framework of a concept is established through Coffey's terse, emotive rasp with plenty of space left for his band, The Lokels, to create an ebbing, flowing Neil Young-styled western soundscape that is wordless yet still fraught with meaning."
- The Edmonton Journal
Photo from left to right: Lance Loree, Steve Coffey, Russ Baker, Dave Bauer
photo courtesy- TAF
Additional Titles
This LoFi recording was written and performed in my art studio during the COVID 19 pandemic lockdown. During that time and outside of my steady practice of oil painting, I delved back into music but this time writing, performing and producing everything myself.
From the swirling light drifting through my home under the Canadian prairie sky and beyond, I have interpreted new songs in paint and interpreted new paintings in song resulting in the dancing narrative of music, poetry and pictures I call 'Paint Songs'.
On a cold wintery night in November of 2014 Steve Coffey, Dave Bauer, Russ Baker, Lance Loree and Kevin Belzner take to the stage and a full house at the historic Empress Theatre in Fort MacLeod, Alberta, Canada
TalkLIKEJoe was essentially the band version of Jay Bigam & Steve Coffey's The Kitchen Boys. Adding members Trevor Bigam & Russ Baker TalkLIKEJoe fused elements of country, rock and folk. The band released one album engineered & co-produced by then Edmonton producer Dave Mockford of MonsterTrack Studios
The Kitchen Boys 'Passion Town'
was produced by the late legendary songsmith Bill Bourne. The Kitchen Boys-Steve Coffey & Jay Bigam
Guests: Shannon Johnson, Bill Bourne, Stu Mitchell, Elvin Berthiaume, & Stainless Stan Stewart. Recorded in Bill's then basement studio in Innisfail, Alberta
First Kitchen Boys cassette released in 1993. Steve Coffey & Jay Bigam. Performed By Steve Coffey & Jay Bigam in an Edmonton basement in the middle of winter. 'Dreams'- Words and Music- Jay Bigam courtesy JayBigamMusic
This tape received a TOP 10 of '93 with the Edmonton Journal to our delight.
