Album 5 .. under construction

Album 5 .. under construction

So many songs to write:  Musical Despair; Tectonic Plates Beneath; Hunger; Above The Clouds; Cute Hoors; Creaking Timbers; The Blanket Guarantee; Thomas Francis Maher; Auschwitz; Rwanda-Srebrenica; Empty Waves; The Road Ending; City Scene; Waiting at Midnight; The Ticking Clock; Igassu Falls; Clinging On; Lost and Gone; The Universe Inside; Mermaid

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Album 4: …. now complete

Album 4: …. now complete

    Another set of 10 all new original songs  by Joe Phelan. The recordings as presented here are rough takes, the main purpose being to just ‘capture’ the songs. All except 7) and 10) were recorded in Joe’s home studio.     1) The Volunteer  2) Welcome In  3) It Never Should

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Album 1: The Sunny Southeast

This is a collection of 10 all new original songs (lyrics and music) by Joe Phelan. Most of them are very recent creations (no prizes for identifying ‘Boom and Burst’ as one of those), but a few of them have been in Joe’s repertoire for many years (‘History’s Story’ goes

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Album 2: Something Strange

Album 2 is ‘collection no.2′ of original songs and music by Joe. Some of these songs will have been heard locally performed by Joe: some of them are hot off the press, so this is the first airing. You can hear any of the 10 songs by clicking the individual

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Album 3: Healing-Lake

Album 3: Healing-Lake

Have a listen to Album 3 below .. it was a long time coming, but it got there eventually .. comments very welcome 1) Healing-Lake 2) The Highwayman jig 3) Baltimore Village  4) Where We Are Today  5) Rapture in Gold 6) To What, To Where, To Why  7) Midsummer Dream 

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Latest News

Jan 2015: In what was kept as a wonderful surprise for us, Riggerloftets performed their interpretation of Joe’s song ‘To What, To Where, To Why’ (which was inspired by a very special personal poem in the Nowegian by Ann-Christin) for us at the 2013 Ballydehob Festival. We were all spell-bound by

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Events

Hooks and Crookes: keep an eye on www.hooksandcrookes.com for detail of  planned group performances. Several of Joe’s songs are now in the stage repertoire of the Group.  Others can be heard in the informal music sessions that invariably happen ‘after hours’ in  some  local ale house.

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Upcoming Events

See www.hooksandcrookes.com for detail of events planned with the group.