Rising Irish star Damien Dempsey, performing at this year's Kansas City Irish Fest as well as at the Uptown Theater on May 5th announces the upcoming release of a new album to be called The Rocky Road.
Says Ireland's Hot Press magazine:
"(The new album) finds Damo in nostalgic mood, with reworkings of such childhood favourites as ‘The Foggy Dew’, ‘The Hot Asphalt’, Ewan MacColl’s ‘Schooldays Over’ and Shane MacGowan’s ‘Rainy Nights In Soho’.
Lending a hand in the studio were Sharon Shannon and John Sheahan and Barney McKenna of The Dubliners fame.
“Ballads are my roots,” Dempsey reflects. “It was the first music that I heard being sung in my home by friends and family. I’d have over 200 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 them and, as I studied Irish history, I felt I could really tell their story and do them some justice on an album.”
It's the Dublin singer's sixth studio album, and will be released on June 6.
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