EVERY TUESDAY IS DOOBIE TUESDAY FOR TAYLOR DUBRAY
From the moment he was born Taylor Dubray was not afraid of taking on new adventures alone. Now he’s looking back on those (literal and metaphorical) first steps with his upcoming releases under his solo-artist name, Doobie Tuesday.
Doobie Tuesday, created in a break between his work for his former band Betcha and time touring as the bass player for alt-rock band Joywave, exists in many ways to let out his inner child. The project is meant to grab you, hold you close and let you go – exactly what he has let himself do.
Dubray has certainly achieved his goal of grabbing peoples attention – in fact, he does it almost instantly with his hilariously off-beat name. A play on the popular fast-casual chain Ruby Tuesday, the alias reminds Dubray of both his friends and the years of his life spent on the road.
“One of my best friends is also named Taylor. I met her probably the second week of college and there was a point where we would be in the same room all the time,” he explained. “My friend started calling me Doobie as my nickname, a shortened version of Dubray. Doobie Tuesday I think it was like, I was on tour sitting in the van and, and I didn't have an Instagram at the time, and I was like, all right, it's time. And I think we were just driving down some strip mall in the middle of nowhere and saw a Ruby Tuesday and I said ‘that’s it.’”
Though his moniker is a nod to his history of touring and working for other people, Dubray is enjoying taking time to figure out his personal sound. Throughout the process of trial, error and hundreds of dollars spent on harddrives full of songs that will never see the light of day, he has realized that he’s left pieces of himself scattered in every project he’s ever worked on. Some of these recent projects being Carter Rubin’s debut EP and work for the band Pacific.
Despite what it may seem, for a while Dubray didn’t think he’d ever let his work see the light of day. Now, he’s grateful to be soaking in the sun, and credits everyone but himself for making the leap.
“I think what led me to finally releasing Doobie Tuesday stuff is not only some of my close friends being like, ‘Dude, it's time you just gotta just put it out.’ After showing them like the hundredth song that I make but, I think it's also been working with so many people,” Dubray said with many thanks to his friends.
What’s next for Doobie Tuesday is his longest and most intimate release yet. Sometime in the fall Dubray will release an EP inspired by a trip home for the holidays in which he found videos of himself from birth to childhood. The firsts that shaped him the most, the bittersweetness of family and what it feels like to drift apart from the people that can be closest to you. The most important video though, riding a bike by himself. His first adventure alone.