Walkin' Blues in Ireland

 

Focus dark: purple the blues: play me a tune: like Rory would ya? With all the notes, eh? It's all pressed in from the little streets: little joints where the listeners are pressed up against the players: and the players can probably lean on the same table for luck. And stories! Turn it up, baby. Turn it up! I learn from Sean O'Hara, Lonesome Pete, and Stonecold, and Frank Carberry, and Dom Martin, and... Turn it up! So these 25 shows in 50 days have got louder. And brighter. And ya better have a long power cable. But all is good. It's been a grand tour of places large and small. I've made lots of new friends. I've sold out a bunch of shows in some very cool rooms. I've got good at busses and trains. I've got a little, Guinness belly to show for my social efforts. This second tour of Ireland has built nicely on the previous one– and it now looks to be part of my annual circuit.

Dom Martin and I before our show at Howth Blues Festival, Dublin.

Blues Doctors on convention in Belfast. We prescribe Guinness.

A little pub show at the Belfast Blues Festival.

This was a fun show, north of Belfast, at Whitehead. Lonesome Pete helped me set this one up.

The Railway Bar was another, Northern gig that I really enjoyed– great folks who really know about the blues, and work with most of the top Irish artists.

Johnny!!! Proud to have this famous punk rocker- painter in my corner! We've become firm friends over the last couple of years, and he's done so much to introduce me to the Cork region music people. Get Up the Yard! He's a movie star, too...