Obit: Paul MacNeil, Songwriter (1942-2024)

Subject: Paul MacNeil
From: mrmoe
Date: 21 Mar 07 - 11:37 AM

some nice tunes by an old boston singer/songwriter http://www.paulmacneil.net/

Subject: Obit: Paul MacNeil 1942-2024 - Songwriter
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 21 Mar 24 - 05:48 PM

Just learned from Lesley Moore in Boston that New England songwriter Paul MacNeil has died of a heart attack.

He's been living in the Philippines for some years now. I haven't seen him locally or around the Press Room for, I think, at least twenty or twenty-five years.

He was an old friend of Curmudgeon's (my late husband, Tom Hall). When I first met Tom back in 1980, he was regularly performing Paul's song "Midway". After the Press Room session got going, Tom stopped performing contemporary songs and stuck to trad. But I always loved the song.

I've got to relearn "Midway"; I really love the song — "If you don't get lost there's a chance you may never be found." Bill Staines recorded it with Renée on his first LP.

Midway - Paul MacNeil

Linn