Music releases

Released

Tuesday, June 27, 2006

Jericho Beach

Catalog No.

676

Voice and the love of song is what it's about on Keelaghan's latest CD A Few Simple Verses. On this album, James sings other people's songs, longtime favourites of his. "Some I learned when I was very young, songs my dad would sing," he says. "Some are songs that have been important in my musical development, some I chose for emotional reasons. All of them are lyrically superior, melodically appealing." For Keelaghan, the diversity of musicians he recorded with is one of the most exciting things about the album: the Irish band Danu; James Fagan and Nancy Kerr ( BBC 2's folk artists of the year 2003); Jordan McConnell from The Duhks; Stephen Fearing; Ruth Moody from The Wailin' Jennys; Geoff Kelley from Spirit of the West.