The City Sleeps
Solo guitar interpretations of Irish melodies, mostly.
In March, 2020 I was in Ireland expecting to start a tour when the world shut down. Instead of the tour, we went to an old lodge in rural County Westmeath to record. I returned late that month to a shuttered Brooklyn and, sequestered at home with the lingering feelings and impressions from my time in the muted Irish countryside, I began recording some of the tunes I had been playing.
Released Nov, 2023. Re-released on vinyl Apr, 2025 on the collection "Les Mains Invisibles" from Lyon-based label Adieu Berthe.
- The city sleeps and the country sleeps,
- The living sleep for their time. . . . the dead sleep for their
- time,
- The old husband sleeps by his wife and the young
- husband sleeps by his wife;
- And these one and all tend inward to me, and I tend
- outward to them,
- And such as it is to be of these more or less I am.
- – Walt Whitman, from Song of Myself (1855)
