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|    rog.rosen@gmail.com to Tom Bruhns    |
|    Re: Help with 'Kilkelly Ireland'?    |
|    12 Jun 15 08:57:12    |
      On Friday, March 2, 1990 at 3:29:29 PM UTC-5, Tom Bruhns wrote:       > muldoon@books.dec.com (Steve Muldoon - Correspondent-at-large) writes:       >       > > From time to time I used to hear a song that I believe was       > > titled 'Kilkelly, Ireland'. Since I moved however, I can no       > > longer receive my favorite folk station. The song is written       > > as if it were a series of letters from a father in Ireland       > > to his son in America. The correspondence takes place over       > > several decades, finally ending with the death of the father.       >       > Fiona Ritchie, one time she played this on "Thistle and Shamrock,"       > noted that it was based on letters found in an attic in (a house       > in) Washington, D.C. -- this is probably from liner notes.       > (I doubt the original letters were spaced out in exact decades ;-)                     I still have shrink-wrapped copies of the vinyl LP on which Laura Burns and I       recorded "Kilkelly." Contact me at rog.rosen@gmail.com.              Roger Rosen              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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