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Cork-born songwriter John Spillane has created a niche for himself in Irish folk music since embarking on his solo career since leaving the traditional band Nomos in 1997. Since then, he has ploughed a solo furrow releasing several well-received albums of original songs, combining with poet Louis DePaor in The Gaelic Hit Factory and recording two top-selling albums of traditional ballads Irish Songs We Learned at School and More Irish Songs We Learned at School.

Among his main traits is specializing in songs that commemorate people and places and this has provided a valuable additional strand to a repertoire of romantic love songs, traditional sean-nos material and quirky turn of events dialogues that have professed love for Dunne’s Stores supermarket clerks and meditations on the sentimental side of Irish history.

Of late, these songs of people and places have provided enough contents for three albums Life in an Irish Town and The Man Who Came in from the Dark and a television series Spillane Ar Fanai. This popular TG4 TV series saw him visiting rural towns and working as a bartender assimilating and soaking ethnic lore from local people to provide songs of national anthem status for towns throughout Ireland. This is a long way from his beginnings as a bank clerk in Limerick after leaving school and playing in bands as diverse as Sabre a New Wave/Dire Straits type rock band, The Stargazers a Jazzy vocal trio bathed in The Ink Spots and Mills Brothers and Nomos one of Irelands most exciting traditional bands of the mid-90s.

Tracks:  
01 Bishopstown
02 We Come In The Wind
03 Billy In The Sky
04 Under That Old Clare Moon
05 The Streets of Ballyphehane
06 The Dawn Chorus
07 The College Gates
08 Molly Bawn
09 100 Snow White Horses
10 Slieve Gullion
11 Carolan

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