Jingle Jangle.
Hungry Feelings.
Jingle Jangle.
The longing for Home.
Jingle Jangle.
The longing for love.
Jingle Jangle.
Brendan Behan.
Dominic Behan.
Dublin Men
Mountjoy.
A Song for Ireland.
All along the banks of the Royal Canal
Amazing that Glen hasn’t featured on The Jukebox before.
As you can see he’s a charismatic performer who has no problem working a crowd and getting every last drop of feeling from a well worn song.
Check out his covers of songs by Bob Dylan and Van Morrison which are notable for the ‘let’s give it the full lash lads!’ approach he brings to hallowed classics.
Christy Moore is more than an icon of Irish Folk Music he’s a national treasure.
Over the decades Christy has developed tremendous song craft bringing acute emotional intelligence and dramatic intensity to lyric and melody.
His version of The Auld Triangle has the echo of the prison corridors and is haunted with hungry feeling.
All along the banks of the Royal Canal
All along the banks of the Royal Canal
When it comes to haunting voices I know of no combination of writer and actor to equal Samuel Beckett and Jack MacGowran.
Beckett’s prose has such wonderful rhythmic pace and poise which MacGowran performs with luminous feeling.
Jingle Jangle.
Hungry Feelings.
Jingle Jangle.
Jingle Jangle.
Blog Break :
Thankfully I’m well and safely hunkered down in rural seclusion. This gives me the opportunity for deep listening and reading without, immediately, thinking about turning those experiences into a Jukebox Post.
So, for a while, there will be no new Posts here.
But! There are 388 Posts here for you to explore.
Everything from Amazing Rhythm Aces to Frank Zappa.
Please take a ramble round The Jukebox Archive.
Stay Well.
The Immortal Jukebox 
Hi Thom. Hope you’re doing well. Just gave myself a great boost yesterday listening to Nina Simone singing Feelin Good. Recommend it.
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Love, LOVE the Beckett reading.
The live version of The Auld Triangle is quite stirring. Thanks for sharing it!
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Hey Thom, enjoy your blog break. I hope you and yours are safe and well during this nasty pandemic. The Immortal Jukebox has been a go-to place for great music and commentary for me for quite a long time. I really appreciate the effort and heart you’ve put into your posts, and I hope you decide to return to blogging in the future. If you ever feel like chatting about music and blogging, I’d like to extend an open invitation to you to join my pal Candy and I on an episode of The Agency Podcast – anytime. Cheers.
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I’ll take you up on your offer later in the year.
Regards Thom
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