See What You Can Find

Try Your Best

Get What You Give (Mick Flannery Cover)

The Live Room UnCorked presented by Pauline Glynn. 

The Way The Wind Blows live on Irish Radio International 12-4-16 
w/t Dominic John Sebastian & Christin B Phelan.

The Way The Wind Blows (Irish Radio International 12-4-16)

Here's a cover of Bob Dylan's little gem 'Blowing In The Wind'.

Recorded live upstairs at The Roundy Bar, Cork city.

Thursday 18th February 2016.

Blowing In The Wind Live@TheRoundy 18-2-16 (Bob Dylan cover)

This is our version of an old traditional tune 'Skies O'er Ballyroan'.

Hope you like it.

Joined here by the very talented Jack Doherty on flute.

Be sure to check out Jack's music. Tis great stuff.
http://jackdoherty.com
https://soundcloud.com/jack-doherty-421530898


_________________


Skies O'er Ballyroan, originally by Thomas Hodge.
Arranged and performed by Brian Lalor and Jack Doherty.
Recorded at Knuttery Studios, Cork, Ireland.


Words were written in the late 19th century by Thomas Hodge, a schoolmaster from Ballyroan. An arrangement was set to a melody by Chris Andretti thereafter. 


++++++++++++++++++++ 


4th November 2017

"This is a picture of the old OLD school in the village of Ballyroan, Co Laois. The building is a real relic and stands beautifully on the corner where Chapel St and Main St meet. - By reading the last line Ballyroan may appear to be a larger place than it actually is…there basically is only two streets…and the phrase ‘Blink and ya’ll miss it’ comes to mind : ) -

Today is my father’s birthday. He was born on 4th November 1947, which means he would have been 70yrs old if he was still with us.
Bless him. Some man for one man he was. I miss him dearly.

At home, we never learned until later on in Pat's life that he had indeed, a fine knack for painting and art in general, which he developed in a local center he attended weekly, sculpting and painting many a piece…eventually coming up with his very own style. A lot of locals and aunties and uncles started to notice his talent and original flair. They started requesting different ideas…which he gladly obliged. 

This picture of the school is one of those pieces. He did a series of similar concepts from the surrounding area which now hang in many a sitting room all over the place. Mainly Laois id say but who knows!?

One of Daddy’s favorite songs was Skies O’er Ballyroan. Well, it was the one he would always sing out at a session anyway…maybe Blueberry Hill was indeed his favorite…or at least up there in the list. Either way, I know he held the words of Skies O’er dearly. It was about his home turf after all.

Here we have a version of the song myself and a good friend Jack Doherty recorded in late 2017 at his home studio in Cork. I had been over there only a couple of weeks previous and we were jamming away as usual. At some point in the night, I mentioned id been thinking of doing a recording of the song in the near future, and would Jack be interested in playing some parts on it? He said yes and asked me to play it to him. Which I did, pretty hesitatingly at first, trying to grasp the key as I hadn’t gone over it in some time.
Within a few run-throughs, Jack had some lines worked out on the flute and then preceded to set up a few microphones. He insisted there’s no time like the present. And we just went for it. 
This recording I think was the third, possibly the fourth take and is the only one where I didn’t screw up the lyrics. The air of the song is a complete re-working and chords and tuning to match. There are imperfections on there, both in performance and technical wise if ya want to get geeky about it…but, I like it and so does Jack…enough to share with you all today. 
I thought it would be fitting to use the painting of the school as a sleeve for the art.

Hope you enjoy : )
Feel free to share it around.


Side note:
Jack is a really gifted musician and songwriter. I recommend you check out his music. You won't be disappointed.

http://jackdoherty.com/
https://soundcloud.com/jack-doherty-4...
Follow Jack Doherty facebook page for updates. "

Brian Lalor

Popular tracks