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Kieran Kane 'Somewhere Between The Roses'

Kieran Kane
Aug 28, 2009 Updated Aug 28, 2009

The main instruments used on the album are banjo and baritone sax which certainly makes for a distinctive sound.

The American singer/songwriter is also known for his work in Kane, Welch, Kaplin - frequent visitors to our shores.

Somewhere Between The Roses features Deanna Varagona (Lambchop) on baritone sax, Richard Bennett (Neil Diamond, Mark Knopfler) on electric guitar, and Lucas Kane (Kane’s son and member of Kane, Welch, Kaplin) on drums.

Tracklist:

1. Way Down Below
2. Why Can't You
3. Somewhere Beyond the Roses
4. Unfaithful Heart
5. Marriage of Convenience
6. Anybody's Game
7. More To It Than This
8. I Took My Power Back
9. Hands Across the Water
10. Don't Try To Fight It
11. Tell Me Mama

Reviews Elsewhere:

"It's an album filled with busted love songs, with titles like 'Unfaithful Heart' and 'Marriage of Convenience', and with a sense of struggle that pervades even hopeful moments in 'Somewhere Beyond The Roses' and 'I Took My Power Back'." - tennessean.com

"There is a marriage that takes place here instrumentally between a baritone sax and a banjo. That might sound like unusual partners but the mix works, thanks mostly to the quality of the players... Rock music fans could use the band Morphine as a reference." - Country Standard Time

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Kieran Kane (born October 7, 1949 in Queens, New York) is an American country music artist, as well as the owner of Dead Reckoning Records, an independent record label. Between 1986 and 1990, he and Jamie O'Hara comprised The O'Kanes, a duo which charted seven singles on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles charts, including the Number One single "Can't Stop My Heart from Loving You". In...

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On Sep 3, 2009. 6:07pm
Anonymous said

Bleak, dark & sparse, but what a fabulous sound & the songs are awesome - love that growling sax.

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