The collection’s nine tracks range from outlandish and inventive instruments, to traditional and original songs, with a “slightly political twist”. Highlights include Wheels Of The World, an old comment on politicians that seems even more relevant today; The Post Truth Reel, an instrumental filled with anger and sadness; and Resurrection Jack, which is based on… Read more »
Singer/songwriter/guitarist Kevin is a true craftsman, whose warm, lyrical style, and fresh, rhythmic approach has brought diverse collaborations with Dave Swarbrick to Percy Sledge. Carolyn draws on her Northumbrian song roots to bring a sense of the tradition to the proceedings. Karen straddles traditional Irish to classical, in a uniquely haunting, emotive, yet exciting way.
Kevin Dempsey & Rosie Carson are a virtuoso duo from the Coventry, UK and Cincinnati, USA. Rosie Carson is a singer and fiddle player. She has amazing musical versatility and a fine singing voice.
“Delivered with guitarist Kevin’s characteristically distinctive folk voicings, peppered and spiced with his jazzy and funky rythmic fretwork and nuanced with singer/fiddler Rosie’s American tinctures.” Living Tradition magazine
The collection’s nine tracks range from outlandish and inventive instruments, to traditional and original songs, with a “slightly political twist”. Highlights include Wheels Of The World, an old comment on politicians that seems even more relevant today; The Post Truth Reel, an instrumental filled with anger and sadness; and Resurrection Jack, which is based on an anti-racist poem by the late Dublin-born writer and editor, Evangeline Paterson.
Singer/songwriter/guitarist Kevin is a true craftsman, whose warm, lyrical style, and fresh, rhythmic approach has brought diverse collaborations with Dave Swarbrick to Percy Sledge. Carolyn draws on her Northumbrian song roots to bring a sense of the tradition to the proceedings. Karen straddles traditional Irish to classical, in a uniquely haunting, emotive, yet exciting way.
Kevin Dempsey & Rosie Carson are a virtuoso duo from the Coventry, UK and Cincinnati, USA. Rosie Carson is a singer and fiddle player. She has amazing musical versatility and a fine singing voice.
“Delivered with guitarist Kevin’s characteristically distinctive folk voicings, peppered and spiced with his jazzy and funky rythmic fretwork and nuanced with singer/fiddler Rosie’s American tinctures.”
Living Tradition magazine