Album Notes

"Fundamentally, I'm a ballad singer and storyteller. That's what drew me to this music and to some of the child forms that it spawned. I was thinking about that while working on this CD. One day while driving around I was looking for common themes trying to find the threads that hold the songs together. I remembered the lines in One Starry Night

I'll search the highways, likewise the byways
I'll search the bóithríns, camping places too

It struck me that these songs are bóithríns - little roads that we walk along while listening. Each takes us on a little journey, sometimes rough and unpaved, through different times and places; each with a different set of traveling companions."

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After founding bands that forged a sound from various parts of Western European and American folk repertoires and taking it on the roard to festivals and concerts throughout the midwest, Frank settled in Oregon. There, he tries to capture the heart of Irish, Scottish, and American folk music strip it down to bare roots, and add to it through composition.

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