My live performances on the Pub Songs Podcast have gone over very well. I've only released two from my home studio, but I get a lot of emails from people who enjoyed them and want to hear more. So I listened to the shows again and picked the recordings that were made in those shows. They will make up the first in a series of albums from the Pub Songs Podcast.
This first album is called Folk Music with Delusions of Grandeur. Why the name? I played rock music in my early music career. I play folk music, but I'm a bit of a rocker at heart. I mean my new sideburns are kinda testimony of that. But being the realist, I know that currently folk music lacks the power and ability for mass appeal like rock music. But never the less, I dream of rocking out in an arena… with my autoharp and Celtic folk songs.
This album will feature some of the songs I recorded for my Pub Songs Podcast. Plus, I decided to add a few songs that are just hanging around waiting to be added to a CD. Here are some of the songs you may hear on the new CD:
- Black Velvet Band
- Jock Stuart (A Man Who Wears A Kilt Every Day)
- Star of the County Down
- The Virgin Diet
- Lish Young Buy-A-Broom
- Lord of the Pounce
- Loch Tay
- The Pleasant Peasant Pheasant Plucking Song
- Eleanor Plunkett
- I Saved The Planet Earth (Dr. Who)
- Monkeys Over Mongolia
- A Rabbit For Halloween (Bugs Bunny & Witch Hazel)
- Won't You Come With Me
- Happy Birthday, Dear Hobbit & Friend
- Advertisement: PlagueAway, the Pestilence Potion
- The Faire Is Over
I hope to finish mixing the album after I return from Europe. And it may well be out in mid-July 2007.
