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The GypsyFire Irish Storybook is a collection of 12 traditional Irish songs that are particularly fine examples of the stories that are at the heart of all Celtic music. They are the done in the way you have come to expect GypsyFire to spin a yarn. The stories range from the tragic to the funny and a few combine the two as only GypsyFire can. The disc will take you from 1633 to the present and all over the emerald island. Maritime tunes, drinking songs, songs of rebellion, battles won and battles lost. Politically incorrect...and all you’ve come to expect from Cynthia and Charlie.

Through the Looking Glass Darkly is a collection of songs that come from Charlie’s work as both client and therapist. “This project has found it way onto CD mostly because I didn’t want to do it and Lou Mancel convinced me that proved I should!” The songs will take you from the despirate isolation that comes from abuse (both intended and accidental) through the telling of the story and the transformation of the pain to hope and connection as trust and relationship are rebuilt. While the stories are dark they carry also the hope and eventual return from the abyss.

The stew represented by Back To Basics may be simple but its carefully seasoned with rare herbs and spices. Charlie brings a rich brew of magical places and unusual faces, timeless times and space less spaces. From the rodeo clown’s life saving advice to the magical mystery of the “White Gardenia” and from the irreverent procrastinators hymn, “Ain’t Life Wonderful” to the haunting tale of two women, one old and one young, in “The Spinning Wheel” Charlie and Cynthia blend a special harmony with the guitar to bring the people and places to life. Along with the new stories this project includes much requested material from Charlie’s live shows that have not found their way onto tape until now.

If It Ain’t Baroque adds a layer of texture that the identifies the “live” performances of Alan and Charlie. That live richness is now on tape along with special surprises from a few of Charlie and Alan’s musical friends. Alan has taken the influences of the likes of John Renborn and Jerry Garcia as Charlie has taken the influences of the likes of Harry Chapin and Gordon Lightfoot and added the magic of their own muse to make a truly original sound. The sound however pays homage to the roots in the music and stories of the Celts of Ireland, Scotland, and Wales. The stories tell of the land and people of the land. Their hopes and fears and loves and losses.

Texas Celt Odyssey celebrates the original folk style called Texas Celt. There is a strong connection between the Texas Troubadours, Irish Bards and the Native American story tellers. It is a view of the magical world of people of the land and of the land itself as a living thing. The stories combine all the emotions from the pathos of “Gypsy Fire” to the humor of “The Armadillo” and from gentle whimsy of “Children of the Sky” to the seriousness of “The Voyage”. The songs take you from the Big Bend country of West Texas in “Santa Elena” to the rocky shores of Scotland in “The Maiden of Kintyre”. It’s a journey not to be forgotten.

The songs of Hearth Fire were written to celebrate special places in the land and the spirit they express. The locations range from the delta region around Memphis (“Crossroads”) to the Chisos Basis in the Big Bend Country (“The Crystal Desert”) And from the foothills of the Ozark Mountains (“Reluctant Refugee”) to the where the Brazos River meets the Gulf of Mexico (“Ghosts Along the Brazos”). The songs range from the darkness of evil examined in “The Battle” to the celebration of the ancient Celtic celebration of spring coming to the land in “The Muses Hand”

The Sabbat Song is a collection of original songs that celebrate the festivals of the ancient Celtic calendar. The ancient Celts saw life and death as a circular route to be celebrated at each stage. They saw the cycle repeated in the changing of the seasons and the continual renewal of the earth as well as in their own births and deaths. The world of the ancient Celt was one of balance. The sun and the moon, masculine and feminine, life and death. All part of the whole. All circles on a spiral road. The Sabbat Song is a presentation integrating narration and music to tell the stories that made up the calendar for millennia.

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