River Drivers (Self-Titled Debut Album 2015)
Kevin McCloskey (Vocals, Guitar, Mandolin, Banko, Bass)
Mindy Murray (Vocals, Guitar, Banjo)
Marian Moran (Tin Whistle, Low Whistle, Concertina)
Meagan (Fiddle, Irish Flute)

River Drivers (self-titled album)

Children's March (Mother Jones) by Mindy Murray and Kevin McCloskey
Going Once by Mindy Murray
Crooked Jack by Dominic Behan
Sí, Se Puede by Mindy Murray
Isn't It Grand Boys (Look at the Coffin) by Liam Clancy, Pat Clancy, Tom Clancy, and Tommy Makem
Big Oak Road by Mindy Murray
Cumann na mBan by Mindy Murray
Moonshiner  Traditional
Union Man by Tim Stafford
Farewell Johnny Miner by Ed Pickford

These songs tell the stories of people who were just trying to get by and had other peoples’ fortunes made on their backs—the stories of what they suffered through and what they did to overcome.
Mother Jones knew this all too well when she took the maimed and malnourished children of Kensington, Philadelphia, on the Children's March in 1903. They rallied towns full of child workers to go beat down the doors of the mill owners in New York, marching all the way to Teddy Roosevelt’s front steps in Oyster Bay. Other rabble-rousing Irish women formed Cumann na mBan, and rose up to overthrow the colonial chains on their homeland—only to be forgot- ten for decades. Across the ocean, miners fought bloody battles in Harlan County, Kentucky, striving to become the Union Man, to earn a fare wage for their work, and to have a better chance of surviving those dark and dusty mines. In the pounding, sweltering sun of the West, farm workers shouted Dolores Huerta's slogan "¡Sí, Se Puede!", organizing boycotts of grapes and lettuce—and then, yes, it could be done.
None of their lives were easy, and whether their story began with a "Going Once, Going Twice" and the sound of an auction hammer, or with traveling across an ocean to break their backs like Crooked Jack, they continued on. The old dance hall song "Isn’t it Grand Boys" might have brought a grim smile in the knowledge that death swallows all pride and wealth, making all equal in the end. For those on both sides of the Atlantic who sought solace in a Moonshiner's bottle, they found the world was also a bottle that becomes worthless once it is empty and void—perhaps even more so than when the work Johnny Miner depended on closed up shop and left him hanging out to dry.
Through it all, though, we keep moving, because struggles and setbacks are part of the human condition. Sometimes the only way to survive is to leave the Big Oak Road and all you love behind for a while or forever and try your luck in the wider world. Sometimes it pays off.

Big Oak Road

If Ever You Where Mine

Billy O'Shea

Manchester Rambler

Plane Wreck at Los Gatos (Deportee)

Whiskey In The Jar

Blair Mountain

Dirty Old Town

Tell God and the Devil

Mindy Murray- Guitar, Vocals, Bass
Kevin McCloskey- Mandolin
Marian Moran- Irish Whistle
Cinematography by Meagan Ratini, Angelo Ratini
Film Editor- Mindy Murray
Engineered and Mastered by Richard Hartline

This song by Mindy Murray tells the story of how a young woman's ghost helped convict her husband of murder. Shot on location in Greenbrier County WV, we hope to use this song as a vehicle to help victims of domestic violence by asking for donations to the Family Refuge Center which serves Greenbrier County and the neighboring two counties.
https://www.familyrefugecenter.org/support/donate.html

Everlasting Faint (Tale Of The Greenbrier Ghost)

Hot Asphalt

Come Out, Ye Black and Tans

Erin Go Bragh

Going Once

Mother Jones took the maimed and malnourished children workers from the factories of Kensington, Philadelphia on The Children's March in 1903. They marched through PA, NJ and NY to beat down the doors of the mill owners in New York , marching all the way to the front steps of Teddy Roosevelt's summer mansion in Oyster Bay.

Children's March (Mother Jones)

Farewell Johnny Miner

Union Man

Isn't It Grand Boys (Look At The Coffin)

Sí, Se Puede

Crooked Jack

“Did Ya Vote” is an urgent call to all women to honor those who came before by getting out and voting. Written by Mindy Murray and Kevin McCloskey, this song coincides with the 100th anniversary of the Nineteenth Amendment to the US Constitution that finally enfranchised women. Winner of an Honorable Mention in the International Women's Freedom Song Contest 2020, the song celebrates the strength of the women who fought for suffrage and the power that modern women can yield by exercising that right.  Murray and McCloskey are members of The River Drivers, a folk roots band known for its powerful and compelling narrative songs anchored in themes of social justice. Find out more about their music at TheRiverDrivers.com.
Mindy Murray: Vocals, Guitar, Bass
Recorded in Murray's living room during the pandemic. 
Mixed and Mastered: Richard Hartline

Did Ya Vote

Four friends, more than half a dozen instruments, and good craic. The River Drivers have roots in Ireland and Scotland by way of the Borough of Bristol (Pennsylvania). Anchored by Kevin McCloskey (vocals, guitar, mandolin, banjo, bass) and Mindy Murray (vocals, guitar, banjo) with accompaniment by Marian Moran (tin whistle, low whistle, concertina, bodhrán) and Meagan Ratini (fiddle, Irish flute, tin whistle), they have cultivated a passion-infused style drawing from Celtic, Americana and Mountain influences. Their songs seek to empower and give voice to the disenfranchised in the belief that all the power that people lack in life can come back tenfold in their music.

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