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Black 47

Black 47 Radio

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  • Genre: New Wave / Rock / Soul

    Location New York, Un

    Profile Views: 246378

    Last Login: 8/30/2011

    Member Since 8/24/2005

    Website www.black47.com

    Record Label United For Opportunity

    Type of Label Indie

  • Bio

    Black 47 espouses an unblinkingly political and thoroughly Irish form of rock 'n' roll, with songs covering topics from the Northern Ireland conflict to civil rights and urban unrest in contemporary New York. Black 47 earned their chops playing the pub scene in Manhattan and self-producing their first indie record, Black 47, before converting The Cars' Ric Ocasek to the cause and gaining mainstream attention with their second album. "Usually most comfortable playing loud and live with upraised fists and chunky guitar riffs in local hangouts - explodes with declarations of gnashing street poetry punctuated with wailing uilleann pipes, Joe Strummer-style chord chops and Bourbon Street sax sojourns." — ..Rolling Stone..

  • Members

    Geoffrey Blythe: tenor and soprano saxophone Joseph Burcaw: bass and vocals Thomas Hamlin: drums and percussion Larry Kirwan: lead vocals, stratocaster Fred Parcells: trombone and pennywhistle Joseph Mulvanerty: uilleann pipes, flute, bodhran

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