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Thread #105200   Message #2163809
Posted By: Big Mick
04-Oct-07 - 02:06 PM
Thread Name: songs on emigration
Subject: RE: songs on emigration
May I strongly suggest a CD by a Dublin man who lives in Florida and performs in the States. His name is Brendan Nolan. He did a CD titled "Across the Great Divide" which has a number of original and trad songs of immigration. Included on this CD is a song which I consider one of the finest stories of the coffin ships ever written. It is called "Far From Their Homes". For those that go to Getaway, this is the song I did years ago at my first Getaway that inspired Edd Trickett to pass an original song on to me which I then recorded, titled "Along the Famine Road".

Get Brendan's CD. You won't regret it.

All the best,

Mick