BOY IN A BOAT – BARRY KERR CELTIC THUNDER BAND
Barry Kerr hails from County Armagh in Northern Ireland and currently lives in Belfast (when he is not on tour with Celtic Thunder). Barry is recognized as one of Ireland’s most accomplished traditional musicians. As a multi-instrumentalist, songwriter and painter he is extremely prolific in his creative output, he has gone on to tour the world as both a solo performer and in the company of artists such as Cara Dillon, Phil Coulter, Dan Tyminskii, Lumiere, Dervish, At First Light, the list goes on. His songs and compositions have been recorded by the likes of Karan Casey, Flook, Beoga, Brian Finnegan, Damian O’Kane and Kate Rusby. It’s been a long time coming, but Boy In A Boat combines literate songwriting and top class musicianship with high production values and painstaking attention to detail. The result is an album of which Barry Kerr can be justifiably proud, A sweet, warm, tender, emphatic, embracing and enlightening album that sails you away on a visual journey around the world into history and back in a gentle circle, a musical screenplay that you can put your own faces to, Pauline Scanlon’s voice lures you onto the beach, not the rocks, do your heart some good, buy this Damien Dempsey Barry Kerr’s Boy in a boat is a beautifully crafted album from a wonderfully talented writer and performer Cara Dillon More than a singer, painter, guitarist and writer of great songs, Barry is a brilliant artist. I love his new album Boy in a Boat John Spillane Like Gaughan and Moore with his own thing going on, I love this guy! Mike Harding BBC Radio 2 Musicians on Boy In A Boat include: DonalConnor (producer, piano); Donogh Hennessy (guitar); Pauline Scanlan (backing vocals); Conor McCreanor (bass); Eamon Murray (percussion)
CD TRACK LIST
01 – Californai To You
02 – The Leaving Song
03 – Woman Of No Place
04 – Saely Kelly
05 – Illegal
06 – Setanta
07 – Return To Castor Bay
08 – Nowhere Left To Run
09 – Eoin Go Bragh
10 – When Autumn Comes