Free Celtic Geek Compilation. Get Your Copy!

Free Celtic Geek Compilation. Get Your Copy!

Some bands give away 1-3 MP3s to promote their music. I’ve been doing this long enough to realize that just isn’t enough. If you really want to get to know someone’s music, you need a good album to listen to, freely, and on repeat. Then,  you’ll fall in love with it. That’s my philosophy anyway. […]

Marc Gunn Live Podcast at DragonCon 2014

Were you able to attend this year’s Pub Songs Podcast Live! event? This was my fifth annual end of Dragon Con dead dog party. The audience was small as usual, but we had a blast. There was also an awesome special guest. Fortunately for you, the show was recorded and posted on YouTube. Sci Fi Drinking […]

The Tea Merchants Release “Gaslight Snaps”

There are few albums I eagerly await to hear. The Tea Merchants have one of them. It’s called Gaslight Snaps. It’s been out for months. But it just became available digitally today. The Tea Merchants are one of the best trad Irish groups in the Southwest. The group features Chris Buckley on fiddle, Charlie Branch on […]

Brilliant Folk Musicians Might Not Make the Best Rockers

There’s a running joke among my friends that one day I’ll “sell out” and record my Celtic rock album.  It’s true I’d love to release a Celtic rock album.  I started out as a rock musician after all, not a Celtic folk musician.  I played guitar with Skander and Breastfed before I found my calling […]

Be Safe, Be Sorry

That’s the title of Marcia Yudkin’s weekly email newsletter.  Marcia is a fantastic copywriter.  I’ve been a subscriber for several years.  This latest email is one of many reasons why.  Marcia wrote, “With ‘me too’ marketing, you spend the same to get your message out as for a more distinctive idea.  Yet you enjoy a […]

Pub Songs #44: Happy St. Patrick’s Day Pub Songs

Pub Songs #44: Happy St. Patrick’s Day Pub Songs

I just got back from my first solo tour. It was highly successful with a great response. With Heart’s Ease completed, now comes the prep work for my next album, Happy Songs of Death. Death, dismemberment and murder coming soon to a CD near you. Notes: “St. Patrick Never Drank” by Marc Gunn from The […]

Cuddles McGish (Lyrics, parody of Arthur McBride)

by James Hazlerig, March 15, 2005 Cedric from the Bedlam Bards submitted this song for my Irish Drinking Songs for Cat Lovers CD about a cat who avoids enlisting in a dog brigade. I knew an old tomcat named Cuddles McGish, As we were catnapping down by the food dish, And dreaming of catnip and […]