A Few T'ings (Album), by John Hamilton

A Few T'ings (Album)

by John Hamilton

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1.	Bridget Flynn 03:24	buy track
2.	Danny Boy 05:06	buy track
3.	My Girl Mary Ann (Mother Malone) 03:08	buy track
4.	WB Yeats Remembers Maud Gonne 05:06	buy track
5.	The Famine Song (The Praties They Grow Small) 03:56	buy track
6.	The Parting Glass 06:00	buy track
7.	Lullaby For Nora 03:45	buy track

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These songs, and this EP, are part of DINNER MUSIC. All proceeds go directly to St. Joe’s Kitchen and Food Pantry in Pittsfield.

To my Aunt Ann: this is for you. Just like these songs, through good times and bad, your spirit has been indomitable and always, always an inspiration.

While I learned most of these songs as a child, in kitchens and living rooms and knotty-pined paneled basements, over time some of them came under new influences.

Bridget Flynn. I heard Pat Egan sing this at a session during Irish Arts Week in East Durham, New York. He took a song that was a ditty and changed it into an earthy, melancholy slice of rural life. I’ve borrowed from his arrangement and added a few bits.

Danny Boy. I’ve sung this hundreds of times in clubs and at parties and weddings, but putting it down in stone was a daunting task. That harp-like sound is my father’s guitar, lo after these many years returned to life.

My Girl Mary Ann. (Mother Malone) I’m almost positive I know this song from hearing my Uncle John singing it. He had a lilting voice and knew all the verses to so many songs. This must have been one of them.

WB Yeats Remembers Maud Gonne. This is one of mine, but I hope the lyrics sound a bit like Yeats. Maud Gonne was a great beauty, a fiery revolutionary, took part in the 1916 uprising, and WB Yeats was smitten by her. The last time she turned down one of his several marriage proposals, Yeats, not to be deterred, proposed to her daughter. (In fairness, her daughter was 22 at the time.) I will not be working on a song about that.

The Faming Song (The Praties They Grow Small.) I had heard folk recordings of this, but it wasn’t until I heard Tara MacKenzie’s a cappella version of the song that it came to life for me. I have borrowed from her arrangement and added several bits of my own.

The Parting Glass. To me, this is as close to perfection as a song can come. In just two verses, it covers life, death, and everything in between.

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released March 11, 2021

All vocals and instruments by John Hamilton.
Mixed and mastered in the TinyRoom.

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John Hamilton Richmond, Massachusetts

Vocalist, multi-instrumentalist and multi-genre songwriter, living in the Berkshires of Western Massachusetts.

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