I finally made some decisions about upcoming albums for the year and what's next as you'll see in my latest Kickstarter–Dragons vs. Pirates.
This album is a bit of vanity project. It started years ago with an album I recorded with Captain Black Jack Murphy called Pogue Mahone Means Kiss My Arse. It was a fun project. Many of the songs from that album ended up on my CD Going for Brogue: Irish Pub Songs and Sea Shanties with an Accent. It turns out that's one of my most-popular albums on iTunes.
Anyway, a few years after that project, something horrible happened as I explain in my new Kickstarter video.
That's the premise behind this new Steampunk album. I confess, Steampunk is not my thing. I do Celtic music. But this is a story that MUST be told. I've always loved dragons. That's why I used the CD title–What Color Is Your Dragon?. And it will be.
Right now, the album is already 30% towards it's base goal in the first 15 hours. That base goal will mean I will record just me and the autoharp to tell the story. If I can pull in $5500, then I can do the album how I like to, complete with instrumentation by Daniel Briggs, who recorded on many of my past albums.
One of the big goals of this album is to #SaveTheDragons. These creatures are being persecuted by evil pirates like Captain Black Jack Murphy.
Will you help?
