When I want to rock out, I put on some Celtic rock or fun Irish drinking songs. Usually, I like to listen to lyrics. When there’s a lot of music going on, I don’t really hear the lyrics. I hear the music. That’s why I enjoy Ed Miller, Fabrizio de Andre, Nick Hennessey, and a […]
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20 Hobbit Songs Done!
Good day in the studio. I finished mixing all but the last tracks–“Cat and Rat” and an alternate version of “Scouring the Shire” with percussion. All of the other songs are awaiting mastering. Nathan Deese of the band Barrowburn is adding additional instrumentation to those two songs. “Cat and Rat” was written like it was […]
New MP3 – Black Is the Color (Live)
What a beautiful song! I really fell in loved with it listening to Nick Hennessey perform it on his solo albums. Nick plays harp. I play autoharp. But the first thing I did after falling in love with it was rewrite it about cats for my Irish Drinking Songs for Cat Lovers CD. And it […]
New Irish Podcast with “Black Is the Colour (Of My True Love’s Hair)”
This is such a beautiful song. I think it was Nick Hennessey who inspired me to finally learn it. It’s an old song with origins in both Scotland and the Appalacian Mountains, meaning its true origins are lost in time. The cat parody I made for Irish Drinking Songs for Cat Lovers was a love […]
