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11 tracks | 38 minutes
Released Jun 2005
on Taolchemy Records
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- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:28 Go Down You Murderers (The Ballad of Tim Evans) lyrics BUY MP3 03:28 Go Down You Murderers (The Ballad of Tim Evans) lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:28 Go Down You Murderers (The Ballad of Tim Evans)
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:30 When You and I Were True lyrics BUY MP3 03:30 When You and I Were True lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:30 When You and I Were True
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:59 Boscobel (Caledonia) lyrics BUY MP3 03:59 Boscobel (Caledonia) lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:59 Boscobel (Caledonia)
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:00 The Gold Ring lyrics BUY MP3 03:00 The Gold Ring lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:00 The Gold Ring
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 04:00 This Love Will Carry lyrics BUY MP3 04:00 This Love Will Carry lyrics "GIFT MP3" 04:00 This Love Will Carry
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 04:19 Thousands Are Sailing lyrics BUY MP3 04:19 Thousands Are Sailing lyrics "GIFT MP3" 04:19 Thousands Are Sailing
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:58 Magic Nights in the Lobby Bar lyrics BUY MP3 03:58 Magic Nights in the Lobby Bar lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:58 Magic Nights in the Lobby Bar
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 02:09 An Mhaighdean Mhara lyrics BUY MP3 02:09 An Mhaighdean Mhara lyrics "GIFT MP3" 02:09 An Mhaighdean Mhara
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 04:01 Spancil Hill lyrics BUY MP3 04:01 Spancil Hill lyrics "GIFT MP3" 04:01 Spancil Hill
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 04:13 The Fields of Athenry lyrics BUY MP3 04:13 The Fields of Athenry lyrics "GIFT MP3" 04:13 The Fields of Athenry
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 02:21 The Second Battle of Mag Tuireadh lyrics BUY MP3 02:21 The Second Battle of Mag Tuireadh lyrics "GIFT MP3" 02:21 The Second Battle of Mag Tuireadh
This album is a strong collection of traditional Irish songs featuring the synergy of the rich baritone vocals and unique guitar style of Andreas Transø and the sweet tenor vocals and intense bodhrán beats of Parker Otwell Roe.
Bio / Background
The Patched Hats (ca. July 2004 - )
Just WHO are these Patched Hats you've been hearing so much about? A very good question, my friend...a very good question, indeed.
The quick answer goes like this: The Patched Hats are Andreas Transø (vocals, guitar, spoons, hand drum) and Parker Otwell Roe (vocals, bodhrán, guitar, bouzouki)...'nuff said.
The long answer goes more like this:
In the summer of 2004, two musical souls were slammed into one another on a small coach ride somewhere in the Burren (Co. Clare) on the west coast of Ireland. Over a shared bottle of cider in the back of the coach, some guy named Parker and this other dude named Dre began a conversation that would last, on and off, until the present... The subject matter? Irish trad music. The details? Way too many to name. Parker was in Limerick for his second round of Blas at the Irish World Music Centre (http://www.ul.ie/~iwmc/Blas/index.html)...which, subsequently is an AMAZING summer program for trad...
↓ more ↓Dre was also in Limerick at UL for a program through the Univ. of Wisconsin. Two guys...same place, same time, same reason...TRAD!!! Well, the coach ride ended and a friendship began which took these fair lads all around the west for a week of travel and reverie...Miltown-Malbay for Willie Week, Doolin, Galway, etc...you get the idea. And now, I suppose, the rest is history...
Oh...the NAME, you say? Sure...let us go back to Doolin where we find our intrepid heroes in one of the three pubs in that small infamous town desperately seeking a session and finding an empty stage before the "house band" arrived to tantalize the tourists. Empty stage...the lads had their instruments...people were anxious to hear some trad...why the hell not? So they played for a bit, the people listened and applauded... "Who are you guys?" they all asked. "What's the name of your group?" Caught completely unawares and both adorned in their patchwork chapeaus the answer was more instinctive then planned... "We are The Patched Hats." And a legend was born...
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