Songs From A Yellow Chair

Songs From A Yellow Chair is Brendan Devereux’s second album release and features his trademark guitar playing and Fionnuala Devereux’s neatly judged fiddle playing. Apart from that the instrumentation is kept pared back, with occasional bass from Joe Csibi. Some of the faster tracks like ‘Purple Gem’ might benefit from a more fleshed-out band and could pass muster as full-tilt rockers. Although Brendan is Dublin born and bred, his heart is in Tennessee and numbers like the album’s stand-out track ‘Rose of Rojales’ are in the tradition of Marty Robbins' storytelling songs. This is a self-produced album, so ‘Shankill Lullaby’ doesn’t get the string quartet it’s calling out for, which points up the struggles facing artists like this.