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The Rocky Road Damien Dempsey
A collection of eleven great traditional and contemporary Irish folk songs, including covers of The Pogues and Christy Moore. Damien Dempsey’s fifth studio album is a collection of eleven great traditional and contemporary Irish folk songs. The Rocky Road includes collaborations with his heroes John Sheahan and Barney McKenna of The Dubliners along with accordionist Sharon Shannon and it marks a departure for this Dublin-born critically acclaimed, No. 1 selling singer and songwriter. The former junior boxing champion made his first recordings as a teenager on his school’s record label in 1995 and he released his first commercial LP in 2000 to widespread acclaim. “Ballads are my roots” Dempsey 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. I’ve always been an advocate of the sing-song, and I have a lot of very young fans, so naturally these kids are gonna hear all these timeless songs that they may not have heard otherwise." |
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