"There are all kinds of passages in life, and this is the one where we have to wake up and be grown up, we're not kids any more, we've children to raise, countries to run -- or mis run --responsibilities in all areas of our lives. I think for me it was preparing myself for adulthood at this late stage of my life," says Maura O'Connell about the song choices and mood of her album Don't I Know
"As I now know from talking about it, because you never know when you're putting them together what the forces are," she says, "the kernel of this record was the song Time to Learn...
to read the rest this story on Maura O'Connell, please go here
Kerry Dexter, Music Correspondent Kerry's credits include VH1, CMT, the folk music magazine Dirty Linen, Strings, The Encyclopedia of Ireland and the Americas, and The MusicHound Guides. She also writes about the arts and creative practice at Music Road .
You'll find Kerry and find other Music Correspondents, plus music content from many genres and plenty of other music fans at Gather Essentials: Music.
rate
email
print
link to this page
Comments: 9
Randee, thanks.
Patry, I'm glad to have introduced you to musicians you did not know. I hope you'll keep exploring their work
Synchronicity, hope you'll give Maura's work a listen. if you are intrigued by the ideas she expresses you might also want to check out Carrie Newcomer's music.
tom, Follow On is a lovely song. Muireann nic Amhloaibh, the lead singer of Danu, has also recorded a very fine version of it.
Quite agree about advising people to see Maura live. Feet of a Dancer and Trip Around the Sun are two of my favorites of her songs.
Jerry Douglas produced Don't I Know, by the way.