Maria Doyle Kennedy is tagged as: irish, singer-songwriter, female vocalists, love, amazing Maria + Kieran: The Storms Are On the Ocean|For Release: January 27th 2011 on Mermaid Records The Storms Are On The Ocean available worldwide on iTunes and www.mariadk.com Maria Doyle Kennedy’s last album proper Mutter was a collection of ghost songs, avant folk|songs, eerie fairytales and cinematic snapshots of bedraggled actresses walking barefoot on|Mulholland Drive. It was also one of the most bewitching records of 2007.|The Storms Are On the Ocean might well have been named GrandMutter. A collection of|Appalachian standards dressed in beautifully darned gowns, its spiritual siblings are Plant’s|Band of Joy, PJ’s White Chalk and Gillian Welch’s stark daguerreotypes. Here are courtly|tunes, murder ballads, child ballads and death fugues all beautifully backlit by Kieran Kennedy’s|acoustic guitar, banjo and piano. These apocryphal airs often recall Dylan’s definition of|folksong: “Traditional music is based on hexagrams. It comes about from legends, Bibles,|plagues, and it revolves around vegetables and death. All these songs about roses growing out|of people’s brains and lovers who are really geese and swans that turn into angels, about skulls|and flowers and death and curses and nine times this and ten times that.”|Each song... Read More About Maria Doyle Kennedy Biography...  Send Maria Doyle Kennedy ringtones to your cell
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