Sitting on the deck, overlooking Elliot Bay … the mid-Autumn sun horizon-bound, a sumptuous-but-reasonable fermentation at hand, feet-up, with the Astell&Kern SP2000 Cu feeding Loreena McKennitt’s latest release to the MySphere 3.2 …
I just know as the lush, liquid, libation flows, this is going to progress from Loreena and “The Star of the County Down” and will wind up heading back to the Pogues and “The Irish Rover” and some spirited singing … (again) …
I just have to wonder if Rosie knows Mick …
What's that about?
If you know these songs well, and are paying attention, there is an interesting collision with them …
From “Irish Rover”:
And your man, Mick McCann from the banks of the Bann
And from “The Star of the County Down”:
Young Rosie McCann from the banks of the Bann