Living Loose

You Do Me Right

Kindness

Forty’s The New Thirty - A wee collection of 13 stripped back, self-produced home recordings of songs old & new. 

I’ve wanted to do a record like this for a while now, and I hadn’t really released anything since 2021, and with my full-length studio debut coming out a little later in the year, it felt like the right time to get it done. 

As I was planning on releasing it on my 40th birthday, my idea was to have 40 tracks, but it wasn’t to be after I busted my ribs in my local boozer one 'Sunday Funday' at the start of last December! 

It’s all good though… just means I’ll need to get back in aboot it and put together another wee collection from the 27 tracks that never made it onto this one.

With the exception of Maps (Hope I feel about you), which was written by Philip Seth Campbell (The Temperance Movement, The Byson Family), all songs were written by Anton.

Gypsy Heart

Cocaine Blues

California

“I feel like I must have watched ‘Natural Born Killers’ at some point just before I wrote this song… Murder, sex, high-speed police chasing, whisky and tequila… what more could you want in a song!” AOD

Anton O'Donnell - Acoustic Guitar & Vocals
Frank Swart - Bass
Scott Amendola - Drums
John Deaderick - Keys
Russ Pahl - Pedal Steel
Neil Rosengarden - Trumpet
Roscoe Wilson - Electric Guitar & Background Vocals

Songs by Anton O’Donnell
Produced by Brian Brinkerhoff & Frank Swart
Mixed by Matt Winegar
Mastered by Alex McCollough at True East Mastering, Nashville
Engineered by Frank Swart at NTA, California
Additional Recording by Ciarán McIntyre at Matchbox Sound, Glasgow
Further Recording by Roscoe Wilson at El Rancho Recordings, Glasgow 
Photography by Neil McKenzie at Keep It Creative
Artwork Design by Neil McKenzie and Kenneth Clarke at Keep It Creative

Madman On The Loose

“Set it on Fire is another one of them lockdown numbers; I remember reading an article back around May 2020, I think it was, and it just read like the UK government were blaming the public for the rapid spread of covid. I remember thinking to myself, ‘How dare you, you utterly charlatans. I mean, it wasn’t the public that sat on their hands and kept the airports open when we watched Italy collapse into chaos from the spread of the virus’." AOD

Anton O'Donnell - Acoustic Guitar & Vocals
Frank Swart - Bass 
John Deaderick - Keys
Doug Lancio - Electric Guitar, Mandolin, High String
Derrek Phillips - Drums

Songs by Anton O’Donnell
Produced by Brian Brinkerhoff & Frank Swart
Mixed by Matt Winegar
Mastered by Alex McCollough at True East Mastering, Nashville
Engineered by Frank Swart at NTA, California
Additional Recording by Ciarán McIntyre at Matchbox Sound, Glasgow
Further Recording by Roscoe Wilson at El Rancho Recordings, Glasgow 
Photography by Neil McKenzie at Keep It Creative
Artwork Design by Neil McKenzie and Kenneth Clarke at Keep It Creative

Set It On Fire

“An old friend of mine passed away unexpectedly few years back, a bit of shock to us all. But he was one of those larger-than-life characters who was very supportive me, and my music. He was always saying, ‘Just go for it kid, yer a long time time deid’. He was bang on the money with that comment. This song’s a wee nod to him, and a reminder that nothing lasts forever… the good times or that bad.” AOD

Anton O'Donnell - Acoustic Guitar & Vocals
Frank Swart - Bass & Electric Guitar
John Deaderick - Keys
Doug Lancio - Slide Guitar & Mandolin
Noriana Kennedy - Background Vocals
Derrek Phillips - Drums

Songs by Anton O’Donnell
Produced by Brian Brinkerhoff & Frank Swart
Mixed by Matt Winegar
Mastered by Alex McCollough at True East Mastering, Nashville
Engineered by Frank Swart at NTA, California
Additional Recording by Ciarán McIntyre at Matchbox Sound, Glasgow
Further Recording by Roscoe Wilson at El Rancho Recordings, Glasgow 
Photography by Neil McKenzie at Keep It Creative
Artwork Design by Neil McKenzie and Kenneth Clarke at Keep It Creative

It Never Lasts

“I wrote the majority of the lyrics for this song a few years back after a bad dream. A dream that didn’t end well for the main character. Fast forward a year or so later, we’re in lockdown and I heard of a young guy taking his own life – it felt like the right time to put those lyrics to music. Musically, I wanted to create something that was quite calming to match the lyrical narrative of, ‘it’s alright, you’re not alone in this thing’." AOD

Anton O'Donnell - Acoustic Guitar, Vocals and Harmonica
Scott Amendola - Drums
Mai Bloomfield - Cello
Dennis Crouch - Upright Bass
John Deaderick - Keys
Kelley Mickwee - Background Vocals

Songs by Anton O’Donnell
Produced by Brian Brinkerhoff & Frank Swart
Mixed by Matt Winegar
Mastered by Alex McCollough at True East Mastering, Nashville
Engineered by Frank Swart at NTA, California
Additional Recording by Ciarán McIntyre at Matchbox Sound, Glasgow
Further Recording by Roscoe Wilson at El Rancho Recordings, Glasgow 
Photography by Neil McKenzie at Keep It Creative
Artwork Design by Neil McKenzie and Kenneth Clarke at Keep It Creative

Shine A Light

“I have a real love for that Americana vibe, and this song just oozes of it.” AOD

Anton O'Donnell - Acoustic Guitar & Vocals
Frank Swart - Bass
Rob Ickes - Dobro
Shannon Hynes - Background Vocals
Eamon McLoughlin - Fiddle & Mandolin
Derrek Phillips - Drums

Songs by Anton O’Donnell
Produced by Brian Brinkerhoff & Frank Swart
Mixed by Matt Winegar
Mastered by Alex McCollough at True East Mastering, Nashville
Engineered by Frank Swart at NTA, California
Additional Recording by Ciarán McIntyre at Matchbox Sound, Glasgow
Further Recording by Roscoe Wilson at El Rancho Recordings, Glasgow 
Photography by Neil McKenzie at Keep It Creative
Artwork Design by Neil McKenzie and Kenneth Clarke at Keep It Creative

Dreams Fade Under The Weight

“A lockdown song that’s borne out of frustration with modern life. Folk just want to get on in life, but that becomes pretty hard when you have people in positions of power that care not a jot about Tom, Dick or Harry, and instead make decisions that benefit the few, and not the many.” AOD

Anton O'Donnell - Acoustic Guitar & Vocals
Frank Swart - Bass & Electric Guitar
Scott Amendola - Drums
John Deaderick - Keys
Kelley Mickwee & Alice Spencer - Background Vocals
Russ Pahl - Pedal Steel
Roscoe Wilson - Electric Guitar

Songs by Anton O’Donnell
Produced by Brian Brinkerhoff & Frank Swart
Mixed by Matt Winegar
Mastered by Alex McCollough at True East Mastering, Nashville
Engineered by Frank Swart at NTA, California
Additional Recording by Ciarán McIntyre at Matchbox Sound, Glasgow
Further Recording by Roscoe Wilson at El Rancho Recordings, Glasgow 
Photography by Neil McKenzie at Keep It Creative
Artwork Design by Neil McKenzie and Kenneth Clarke at Keep It Creative

Roots

“I was going to call this song, ‘A Day in the life: Under Occupation’. There’s something quite embarrassingly sad about how mainstream media/news portrays conflict in different parts of the world; the narrative can come across very one-sided and in the favour of the oppressor. But when you dig a little deeper, the opposite is true.” AOD

Anton O'Donnell - Acoustic Guitar, Vocals and Harmonica
Bass - Frank Swart
John Deaderick - Keys
Russ Pahl - Pedal Steel
Derrek Phillips - Drums
Roscoe Wilson - Electric Guitar & Background Vocals

Songs by Anton O’Donnell
Produced by Brian Brinkerhoff & Frank Swart
Mixed by Matt Winegar
Mastered by Alex McCollough at True East Mastering, Nashville
Engineered by Frank Swart at NTA, California
Additional Recording by Ciarán McIntyre at Matchbox Sound, Glasgow
Further Recording by Roscoe Wilson at El Rancho Recordings, Glasgow 
Photography by Neil McKenzie at Keep It Creative
Artwork Design by Neil McKenzie and Kenneth Clarke at Keep It Creative

Skulduggery

“It’s a pretty anthemic track, and the Shiny Souls Sisters (Kelley MicKwee and Alice Spencer) doing their thing, that chorus just grabs you when it appears. I joked a wee while back that it felt like something Richard Ashcroft would put out, it’s definitely got a wee bit of that RA swagger in there I reckon." AOD

Credits
Anton O'Donnell - Acoustic Guitar & Vocals
Frank Swart – Bass & Electric Guitar
John Deaderick - Keys
Kelley Mickwee  & Alice Spencer  - Background Vocals
Russ Pahl - Pedal Steel
Christian Pepin - Congas & Percussion
Derrek Phillips - Drums

Songs by Anton O’Donnell
Produced by Brian Brinkerhoff & Frank Swart
Mixed by Matt Winegar
Mastered by Alex McCollough at True East Mastering, Nashville
Engineered by Frank Swart at NTA, California
Additional Recording by Ciarán McIntyre at Matchbox Sound, Glasgow
Further Recording by Roscoe Wilson at El Rancho Recordings, Glasgow 
Photography by Neil McKenzie at Keep It Creative
Artwork Design by Neil McKenzie and Kenneth Clarke at Keep It Creative

Anton O'Donnell - Acoustic Guitar, Vocals & Harmonica
Roscoe Wilson - Electric Guitar, Bass, Percussion & Vocals

Recorded at El Rancho Recordings 
Produced by Anton & Roscoe 
Mixed by Roscoe
Mastered by Andrew Graham at Off Shore Audio
Song by Anton O'Donnell
Gypsy Heart Records

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