Streets of Fall River

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#		Title	Length
1		Look Ahead Tommy	3:43	Play
2		The Fighting Tigers of Ireland	3:22	Play
3		A Prayer from Little Round Top	4:48	Play
4		Sweet Ellen Joyce	3:20	Play
5		When You and I Were Young Maggie	3:28	Play
6		The Vicar's Daughter	1:27	Play
7		Grace	3:55	Play
8		Peter Amberlay	3:08	Play
9		Streets of Fall River	3:49	Play
10		Return to Loch Moy	4:44	Play
11		Midnight in Montreal	3:03	Play
12		Little Child	2:17	Play
13		New York City Blues	2:28	Play
14		Wish I was Your Own	2:13	Play

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Description

"You can hear the folk in the Celtic and the Celtic in the Folk"

Jed Marum has been described as an "American folk singer with Celtic roots" and over the last few years has been performing at festival and concert venues throughout North America. His first three Boston Road Records albums have played continually since their release on the radio airwaves of Folk and Celtic programs in the US, Canada, Australia and Europe - STREETS OF FALL RIVER is his first. On-stage, Jed presents with humor and history a medley of stories; original, contemporary and traditional songs ... the folk music of North America, Ireland and the British Isles.

In his recent review of STREETS OF FALL RIVER, Peter Massey of Greenman Review says, "Listening to STREETS OF FALL RIVER it's possible to detect a hungrier Jed Marum before he achieved a modicum of fame, and from what I can hear, it is fame well deserved. On this album is a performer singing his favourite songs with a delivery that comes straight from the soul. Good honest folk music, as it should be, no guest musicians, just the man accompanying himself on his guitar or banjo. I did detect some double tracking on a couple of the songs, but it is not overdone and doesn't spoil the overall sound.

Most of the songs are written by Jed, who is of Scottish / Irish descent and now living in Dallas, Texas. A lot of the subject matter relates to stories passed on from his parents and grandparents about their emigration to America, ending up working in the textile mills of southern New England. It is from here that the title track 'Streets of Fall River' takes it's theme as Jed's grandfather remembers Fall River in it's heyday when 'cotton was king' and the economy boomed. But sadly it is different now. In order to make the album that bit more entertaining, Jed adds fine renditions of some old favourites 'When You and I Were Young Maggie', 'Grace' and a song you don't hear very often, John Calhoun's 'Peter Amberlay'. The gem on this album, for me, is the first song 'Look Ahead Tommy' an Irish immigrant song. As with most of Jed's own material it's a beautifully simple song that makes it easy for other to copy and this is it's strong point." Peter Massey writes for "www.greenmanreview.com"


James P. Gannon former Wall Street Journal editor and author of "Irish Rebels, Confederate Tigers" says of one of Jed' songs on the album:
"'Prayer from Little Round Top' is the song one of the great Irish poets might have written had he marched to Gettysburg with Jed's Irish immigrant from Alabama. The melody seems to well up from some misty glen in Connemara, wrapping the soldier's sad story in a teardrop. It may mark me as a sentimental Irish man to say this, but if you can listen to this haunting song without finding your eyes moistening, then somewhere along life's way, you've lost your soul."

Tom Geddie in Buddy Magazine:
"The songs - mostly original, a few traditional - come from the same deep, independence-inspired, Irish Catholic, Celtic roots as much of America's folk and country and even western music, at the same time encompassing pathos and delight Streets of Fall River resonates with the depth of ancestral ties and generations of narrative soaked in the salty tears of hope that never seem to dry."
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