Andy Irvine is generous and a gentleman; yes, he sings "Empty Handed", and he has stamped it with his inimitable style. Thanks Murray.

Martin, "The Mill" is not on the new CD - I decided to leave it out, as Cloudstreet were releasing their acapella version of it on their own new album ("Fiddleship") around the same time as "Ordinary Heroes" was being recorded. But one can find it of course on "Countryside Like This", my first album.

Two other "adopted by big names" songs are in OH however: "Flowers & Guns" (Garbutt), "Friends Like These" (Bailey); as well as "Empty Handed" (mistakenly announced as "Empty Headed" at a club recently - I feel a parody coming on (can you write your own parodies?)!