The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #13737 Message #114561
Posted By: Barry Finn
15-Sep-99 - 09:16 PM
Thread Name: Review: last night with Paddy and Sean...
Subject: RE: last night with Paddy and Sean...
Hi emily rain, I'm so sorry that you got to hear Sean in the shape you discribed. I've sung with Sean more than few times over the years at different local sessions. You were truly robbed of hearing a talent that's so rare. Sean when he's in better form is such a mover of mountains it's creepy how he sneaks up on people, subtle as a cobra with twice the bite. Sean's talent is very raw he hasn't a clue as to what notes he's playing ask him how to get a G out of one of his instruments & it's "No Idea" try to play one of his instruments the way he has it tuned, you'll be there for a week & he can't help you or explain it. Ask him to wrap a tune around a poem & then sing it & you'd think that the man just created the morning sky so's to give beauty to the horizon or the first to herald the coming of the 4 horsemen. I sometimes think he's so crippled with shyness & so humble that he sometimes really can't go on without a little help, so he helps himself to a little bit to much maybe a little to often. Emily, you said he's created great beauty in his time, he's not near done yet, it would kill him to stop. Barry