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MIKHAIL LAXTON ON MIKHAIL LAXTON

Mikhail Laxton

The singer-songwriter returns to his roots after finding a new home in Canadian music

smART MAGAZINE | OTTAWA | HOMEGROWN

JUN 27, 2023 | ISSUE 12

REINVENTION


sM | How do the songs on your self-titled album reflect the influences of your sound?


ML ─ The album is very influenced by country music, but it's equally soul, with a bit of R & B and blues in there. I'm a country boy through and through, from the bush in far north Queensland in Australia. As a bit of background, my grandfather is a German man that came to Australia back in the early fifties and learned how to farm from reading books, and he raised his kids and his grandkids that way. I was fortunate that I got to grow up on the farm and learn all about it. He married an Indigenous woman, so I'm an Indigenous Australian as well. I remember somebody once asked me why someone like me was doing country music, I looked at him and said: I'm probably the most country person you’ll ever meet. I grew up with mud, trucks, hunting and fishing. So yeah this album is about me getting back to my roots.

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