George Crooney is a working lounge singer — standards, singalongs, and songs that move rooms. The repertoire runs from Sinatra to Soundgarden, from classic country to crowd favourites most performers wouldn't think to play.

Songwriter, record producer, and frontman of Masters of Reality, Chris Goss is the Masterchef of Songcraft & Secret Recipes — a producer whose methodology begins and ends with the song itself, never the ego of the performer or the trend of the moment. It is the same ideology that governs every setlist George Crooney has ever put together: the song is the dish, the performer is the kitchen, and the room is who you're cooking for.

The character has a history. Dr. Goulet — named for a Saturday Night Live riff on Canadian crooner Robert Goulet, filtered through a decade of hosting Rockaoke Live! feat. The Naturals — was recognized for an alchemical gift with setlists: the ability to read a room and sequence songs that consistently delivered, then deploy the well-chosen deep cut from an indie or college rock catalogue precisely when the moment could hold it. The audience called it Doctor Obscurity. The name was a compliment.

When the band dissolved, the mad scientist traded the laboratory for the lounge. The experimental impulse remained — in the setlist sequencing, the intertextual song choices, the production infrastructure. But the venue changed. Smaller rooms. More intimate. The request app replaced the binder.