Dubliner Kenny has been based in Amsterdam for a number of years where he recorded and released an album in 2010 called 'The Skinhead and the Daisy'. Just like Damien Dempsey, Kenny sings with his Dublin accent intact and writes some good tunes as evidenced by this song 'Mountains'.
Tour dates:
FEB 20
The Stables Market
London,
FEB 21
The Bedford, Balham
London,
FEB 22
Imperial
London,
FEB 23
LOOM, GREAT PORTLAND STREET
LONDON,
FEB 25
The Regal Room, London
MAR 17
Sugar Factory, AMSTERDAM
Amsterdam, The Netherlands,
MAR 18
St. James' Gate
Amsterdam, Holland,
5 comments:
The singer-songwriters never went away in my book and as a "genre" I think it's been really overlooked... some people see a first and second name and assume its all acoustic guitars and falsetto singing, and when this is true the quality can be missed... For me there's also the issue that many "singer-songwriters" are probably more accurately described as "bandleader-producers", "arranger-songwriters", there's even hip-hop and dance solo acts refusing to hide under band-like monikers... is it time for more diverse labelling??
While on the one hand I agree that a dude with a guitar is often misrepresented as a singer-songwriter I think a 'label' or 'genre' or 'tag' can often lead to an instance negative reaction from people. Normally anything tagged 'electronic' I turn away from! However there are some excellent artists within that tag that I like such as Meljoann who I would normally dismiss due to the 'electronic' label.
Fair point Gavin, but "bandleader-producers" would sound awfully pretentious.
indeed it would!
Deadly tune.
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