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More than twenty years ago, Barry Moore left Ireland for America. Eventually settling in New York City, he created a new identity for his work, and for his future audience. And so, Luka Bloom was born. The performer I saw at the Red Lion on Greenwich Village’s Bleecker Street was playing an Irish bar but he wasn’t by any means an Irish folk singer. What he did back then intriguingly eluded easy definition. It was less the words at first but the sound of his open-tuned guitar that was mesmerizing, the way he could go from brooding to brash, intimate to anthemic, to get the crowd roaring or breath-holding silent.
Track listing:
1. Dreams in America (from Dreams in America)
2. Bridge of Sorrow
3. Love is a Place I Dream Of (from Dreams in America)
4. Dont Be So Hard on Yourself
5. Blackberry Time
6. Lord Franklin
7. See You Soon
8. Ciara
9. The Acoustic Motorbike Song
10. Cold Comfort
11. Be Still Now
12. Black is The Colour
13. I Hear Her, Like Lorelei (Live)
14. Love is a Monsoon (Live)
15. Sunny Sailor Boy (Live)
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