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The Calling Course (Album 11 Tracks)

In late 2022 I started writing the song which eventually became James Kildaire And The Maypole, a song I’d wanted to write for a long time. When it was eventually finished (with the aid of my friend Steve Ryan) I started thinking about perhaps writing some other songs in the same vein, story songs, work songs and maybe, eventually putting them on an album.

In April of 2023 my father passed away at the age of 85, not a bad age for a man who by his own admission was something of a hellraiser in his youth. My father had never taken much more than a passing interest in his family tree when I was growing up and to be honest, neither had I. In later life however, it became something he was (if in all honesty only slightly) curious about.