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Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Damien Dempsey's The Rocky Road Album Out Today
Damien Dempsey’s fifth studio album, The Rocky Road, hits stores today! Be sure to order a copy from the United For Opportunity Music Store or from Amazon.com.
In this collection of eleven traditional and contemporary Irish folk songs, which has already reached the No. 8 spot on the Irish album charts, Damien conveys his country’s tumultuous history, his own family tradition and his personal emotion in a way that remains relevant and meaningful to the Irish and non-Irish listener alike.
“Ballads are my roots,” Damien explains. “It was the first music that turned me on, and the first songs that I heard being sung in my home by friends and family. I would have over two hundred ballads in my head, and I used to sing them regularly in pubs around Dublin in the 1990s. I reckoned I had a good feel for these songs, and as I studied Irish history, I felt I could really tell their story and do them some justice on an album.”
MOJO MAGAZINE gave The Rocky Road four stars and described the album as “tradition with 21st century lyrical bite” and “a stirring mixture of grit and grace.”
BONO of U2 has said, “Damien Dempsey blows me out when he opens his mouth. It’s like the end of the world.”
“As traditional Irish singers go, I don’t think there has ever been anyone like him,” says SINEAD O’CONNOR.
With The Rocky Road, Damien continues to show us that he is an artist that not only speaks directly to the hearts and minds of the everyman he represents; he also speaks for them.
Revisiting several of the cities from his tour this past Spring that included dates with Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova of The Swell Season, Damien will be appearing as follows:
August 30 – KANSAS CITY, MO – Kansas City Irish Festival
September 2 – ST. LOUIS, MO – Blueberry Hill
September 4 – MILWAUKEE, WI – Shank Hall
September 5 – CHICAGO, IL – Schuba’s
September 6 – MINNEAPOLIS, MN – Cedar Cultural Center
September 7 – NEW YORK, NY – Mercury Lounge
Visit the Damien Dempsey website to learn more.
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