New Music Monday – BIG NEWS! CD Release! + Flashback to the ’80s!

Hell yeah…it’s New Music Monday!

First off this week, the big news! I’m releasing a CD! It will be all original songs and the release date is set for Monday April 2^nd. For Irish folks, there’ll be a launch in the Long Stone pub in Dublin on Saturday 31^st March at 7.30. I also hope to have some cool surprises coming up on the blog between now and then. More details to follow but for now…so excited! I’m doing all this myself – no record company, no massive PR machine – so any support from the blogosphere and Twitter, Facebook, et al will be much appreciated.

Now to today’s new song and it’s a bit of a change of style. This one is a flashback to the ‘80s. Those of you who grew up on early MTV (or if you lived in Ireland, Fab Vinny and MTUSA) will remember this one. This is my version of Tony Carey’s ‘A Fine, Fine Day (For a Reunion)’:

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A Fine Fine Day

When my Uncle Sonny blew back into town
Said I’ll just go for a ride and have a look around
Took off his fedora
Stuck his fingers in the crown
And he pulled out twenty dollars
And he laid that money down
And he called out to a taxi cab “take me down to Central Park
and keep that meter runnin’ to the twenty dollar mark”
And he kept his eyes turned forward
And he sat up straight and tall
And no one even noticed him
No one cared at all

Chorus:
It’s a fine fine day for a reunion
It’s a fine fine day for comin’ home
You did your sittin’ you did hard time
But you ain’t gonna sit no more
They can’t keep you there no more
It’s a fine fine day
And nothin’s gonna take you,
Nothin’s take you away
It’s a fine fine day
Oh, yeah

The last time I saw Sonny I was just about this tall
And he always made my momma kinda crazy when he called
And him and my old man would stand and whisper in the hall
Then they’d disappear and maybe not come home at all
Then one day, Sonny stopped comin’ around
Heard he got himself into a little trouble downtown
Sometime after that he finally disappeared for good
But he pulled that old Houdini like we always knew he would

Chorus

I see you made it back all right, alright

I see you’re none the worse for wear

Been a long time coming

Nothing’s gonna drag you away from here

Lyrics and music by Tony Carey

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