Dolans Upstairs: Clive Barnes

Clive Barnes new album The Ghost Country is released September 2009. It’s the sound of a musician at the top of his game as a vocalist, guitarist and songwriter. On The Ghost Country Clive sounds truly unique having forged his own voice through years of touring the US and Europe and sharing stages with the likes of Eric Bibb, Taj Mahal, Jeff Beck, Dr. John, Solomon Burke, Peter Green, Seasick Steve, The Blind Boys of Alabama, Alison Krauss, David Crosby and many more.
Clive is regarded as one of the finest guitarists around today but not only that, his lyrical and songwriting abilities are striking on this collection of songs. From the roaring banjo fueled opening track Shotgun Grin to the big sky foreboding of the title track right through to the lyrical closer Borderlines, The album is populated with stories of characters running and returning, longing and dreaming, down on their luck and finally finding some peace, character’s so thick with realism you can feel them slip through you.

Clive’s live performances are not to be miss, Harry Guiren of RTE noted in a live review of Clive at Vicar Street Dublin “Clive is a guitarist who can make one acoustic sound like six, Barnes transported the entire, hushed venue across the Atlantic to where the paths taken by the Delta Blues, Tom Waits and Bruce Springsteen all led to his own special territory.”

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