Dave alvin

Harlan County Line

Johnny Ace is Dead

Black Rose of Texas

Gary, Indiana 1959

The younger brother of influential Irish singer/songwriter, Christy Moore, Barry Moore had tired of being in his brother’s shadow when he decided to relocate to the United States in 1987. He took the first steps toward establishing his own reputation by re-christening himself Luka Bloom during a long airplane ride. A master interpreter, Bloom has continued to balance original songs with reinventions of tunes by a diverse range of songwriters.

On THIS NEW MORNING, Bloom continues to shake up the folk genre with clever chord sequences and arrangements while still retaining folk’s core values of story-telling and commentary. Bloom is primarily known in Ireland as a solo guitar and mic man. Here, he has gathered together a Who’s Who from the Irish folk pantheon. THIS NEW MORNING sounds like a band album—and what a band: Glen Hansard, Donal Lunny, Iarla Ó Lionaird, Eimear Quinn, Steve Cooney and Conor Byrne. The playing is magnificent throughout. Bloom co-produced this record with his old sparring partner, Brian Masterson, and together they have created an album of outstanding beauty, sensitivity and fun.


Dave alvin

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