The Herring and the Brine, by Mumblin Deaf Ro

The Herring and the Brine

by Mumblin Deaf Ro

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1.	The Drowning Man 04:03	buy track
2.	What to Learn and Where to Learn It 03:16	buy track
3.	Brother Peter 03:45	buy track
4.	Trouble Under a Murder Moon 02:31	buy track
5.	Ox in an Open Door 03:31	buy track
6.	What's to be done with El Salvador? 02:22	buy track
7.	The cost of a house 02:35	buy track
8.	Three daughters 03:41	buy track
9.	Restring the bow 05:10	buy track
10.	My prayer for Egret 03:35	buy track

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The Herring and the Brine was voted as one of the top twenty Irish albums of the decade on Nialler9, Cluas and AU. Here's what the irish Times said about it:

The Irish Times - 29 June 2007 - ****
Four years ago, Rónán Hession created a rare thing: a genuine cult classic. In an ideal world, Senor, My Friend … would have made a star out of Mumblin Deaf Ro, a musician who could never write songs about an ideal world. Hession’s voice still needs an explanation: slightly muffled and endearingly brittle, it delivers endlessly inventive lyrics over warm, scratchy guitar folk and winningly unembellished pop tunes. His new album is, again, a witty and affecting collection of short stories, hacking unlikely trails from a drowning man to a failed Latin American dictator to lingering images of a community shattered by murder. No idiosyncrasy comes without a melodic hook, though; every quirk finds its chorus. It’s just the way he tells ‘em. PETER CRAWLEY

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released July 16, 2007

Songs written by Rónán Hession

Rónán Hession - guitars and vocals
Donnchadh Hoey - Guitars
Brian O'Higgins - Drums
Richard Murphy - Keyboards
Conor Rapple - Bass

Recorded and mixed by Peter Sisk; assistant engineer Brendan Moran.
Mastered by Steve Fanagan

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Mumblin Deaf Ro Dublin, Ireland

Mumblin’ Deaf Ro is a Dublin-based songwriter who has released three albums to date. Ro's third album 'Dictionary Crimes' was released by Popical Island in September 2012. The album decsribes what it is like to be part of a family. It was selected as Irish album of the year by Nialler9 and the Irish Independent and was nominated for the Choice Music prize for album of the year. ... more

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