“The Emigrants’ Blues” – new single from Tommy Keyes

“The Emigrants’ Blues” – new single from Tommy Keyes
“The Emigrants’ Blues” is the new single from veteran singer-songwriter Tommy Keyes,
officially releasing on 26 August but available for immediate airplay. It’s the third single
from the forthcoming album Radio Days – the first two singles, “Any Other World” and
“Radio Days” both made no 1 in the iTunes singer-songwriter charts and got hundreds of
radio plays.
“The Emigrants’ Blues” has a strong folk influence in both style and subject matter.
According to Jackie Hayden of Hot Press, “the banjofied, folksy ‘The Emigrants' Blues’
evokes the gutsy honesty of Luke Kelly and the harmonica adds a touch of St Bob”.
The song evokes the hard lives of the Irishmen who worked on construction sites
throughout the world in the 20 th century, their “days filled with sweat and nights filled with
booze”. See the video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRYvymY6NxQ
Its waltz-like rhythm and memorable chorus make this an ideal song for radio play.
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ISR: IE-NBC-21-00005
Duration: 3.10 Clean edit: YES Genre: Pop / Singer-Songwriter / Folk
Label: Keyes Records
Written and produced by Tommy Keyes; published by Tommy Keyes Music © 2021.
Registered with IMRO and affiliates. Licenced to play in public.
Credits: Tommy Keyes: piano, vocals Dick Farrelly: guitars, banjo, bass Gerard Farrelly: drums
Vinny Clohisey and Paul O’Toole: harmonica, backing vocals; Mick Brady, Syl Burke and PJ Maher:
backing vocals. Engineered and mixed by Michael Heffernan Mastered by Fergal Davis