Ceann
Almost Irish

This CD is really great--kids love The Worst Pirate Song (and evidently my son has been singing it in school because his teacher wanted to know why he thought girls can't be pirates--he told me he tried to tell her it's just a song..duh!). I think the Green Beer Song is the landmark tune of the CD-though the title track appeals to most of the people I've played it for. My only concern is censorship around the kids. They're not attentive enough to lyrics, yet, to know exactly what's being chanted at the end of Pabsts Blue Ribbon. It'll be weird when songs they were allowed to sing at 7 are banned from ages 9-14 (they'll have to sneak into my itunes with their pre-adolescent buds the way kids in my generation stole their parents/older siblings Richard Pryor Albums--'Dad, Sorry, I thought it was Bill Cosby!).

Ceann are on the verge of a take-off, as the founding band of Yankee-Irish Drinking Music (I can't wait for how 20 years from now some tool at Rolling Stone Magazine will write the definitive history of the genre saying something pompous like "Though Yankee-Irish Drinking Music proved to be much deeper and wider than the primitive ramblings of Ceann, we can't diminish their germinal role in the procreation of this all-encompassing vibrant musical culture..." and then they'll go on to list the 10 bands no one ever heard or liked as the 'real' but forgotton artistic geniuses of the genre.

Liam O'Brien