What are you listening to???

[HossC]

A month ago, Dave Moore, the DJ on the morning radio show that I listen to, had a dream about writing and recording a Country Christmas song. He enlisted the vocal help of Clodagh Lawlor, one of Ireland's youngest award-winning Country Music stars who also presents a Country Music show on the same station. He revealed the song yesterday morning, and it's both fun and catchy.

BTW. "Quality Street" refers to a box of candy, and a "Tayto multipack" refers to potato chips - both will be found in a lot of Irish homes at Christmas.

 

[Skipper Duke]

22 hours ago, HossC said:

A month ago, Dave Moore, the DJ on the morning radio show that I listen to, had a dream about writing and recording a Country Christmas song. He enlisted the vocal help of Clodagh Lawlor, one of Ireland's youngest award-winning Country Music stars who also presents a Country Music show on the same station. He revealed the song yesterday morning, and it's both fun and catchy.

BTW. "Quality Street" refers to a box of candy, and a "Tayto multipack" refers to potato chips - both will be found in a lot of Irish homes at Christmas.

 

I'm out of reactions... So 👍 

[HossC]

On 12/20/2025 at 10:57 AM, HossC said:

He enlisted the vocal help of Clodagh Lawlor, one of Ireland's youngest award-winning Country Music stars who also presents a Country Music show on the same station.

I'm glad y'all liked the song. I've listened to it many times now. I felt bad that I didn't know much about Clodagh Lawlor, so I had a look on YouTube. Here's a track called 'Whiskeys Cheaper Than Wine'. She even appears to be wearing Daisy Dukes in the video.

You could take me to the city
It's really not me
All I want is a real good time
So let's hitch a ride and get out of this place
To the bar with the neon lights
It's in the country, there you can see
All the girls all dance in-line
They got an old-time fiddle, and the beer is cold
And the whiskeys cheaper than wine

 

[HossC]

It seems to be mainly female artists catching my ear with new music at the moment. First and most recent, Irish rock band Florence Road.

A change of style for the track. This is British singer Raye. This song mixes several styles (R&B, soul, pop, big band and a bit of gospel) at a fast pace. She's touring the US between March and May.

Finally, a change of pace for another British singer. Olivia Dean recently won the Grammy for Best New Artist.

 

[HossC]

I posted another song by Bell X1 in the One Word Song Titles thread recently, but I heard this one today and it has too many words in the title for that thread. I known and liked it for a while, but never knew what it was about. According to the band, they used to see a man in his late-50s sleeping rough in Dublin. One day he had a female companion, and they invented this backstory for him.

Bell X1 - Rocky Took A Lover

Here's when they performed it live on Letterman in 2008.

 

[Hobie Hartkins]

The  music was nice but the words confusing

[HossC]

Here's another song from Bell X1 that came up on my playlist last night. A couple of the comments on YouTube say it sounds like Talking Heads. I've never thought of it before, but I think I can hear the similarity. I've always liked the odd lyric, "I love the way your underwire bra/Always sets off that X-ray machine". There's even a John Steinbeck reference - "Oh, won't you tell us 'bout those rabbits, George?" (I did 'Of Mice and Men' at school many years ago).

Bell X1 - The Great Defector