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Danny Burns, “North Country”
Backed by Mindy Smith, Sam Bush and ChessBoxer, Irish songwriter Danny Burns nods to his homeland with “North Country,” a moody folk song about Ireland’s earliest residents repelling a Viking raid. The acoustic instrumentation is top notch, but it’s Burns’ voice — with its unique pronunciations shaped back home in Donegal — that sells this salute to the old days.
Rachel Wammack,...
Danny Burns, “North Country”
Backed by Mindy Smith, Sam Bush and ChessBoxer, Irish songwriter Danny Burns nods to his homeland with “North Country,” a moody folk song about Ireland’s earliest residents repelling a Viking raid. The acoustic instrumentation is top notch, but it’s Burns’ voice — with its unique pronunciations shaped back home in Donegal — that sells this salute to the old days.
Rachel Wammack,...
- 3/18/2019
- by Robert Crawford
- Rollingstone.com
North Country, the acoustic-based new album from transatlantic troubadour Danny Burns, not only benefits from Burns’ richly textured vocals and keen storytelling, but also from the Irish-born artist’s musical kinships with Jerry Douglas, Sam Bush, Holly Williams, Dan Tyminski and Mindy Smith, among others. The result is a collection of songs kindled by the Donegal native’s ancestral home and set ablaze with the aid of some of bluegrass and Americana’s finest exports.
Among the LP’s most irresistible tracks is the buoyant “Look Into Her Eyes,” a...
Among the LP’s most irresistible tracks is the buoyant “Look Into Her Eyes,” a...
- 1/4/2019
- by Stephen L. Betts
- Rollingstone.com
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