Grove Lane

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Cat No: COM45442

Release Date: 22 November 2010

Label: Compass

Packaging Type: Jewel Case

No of Units: 1

Barcode: 766397454429

Genres: Folk Gospel

Description
'Grove Lane' showcases Joe Derrane, one of the finest button accordionists in the history of Celtic music, at the height of his creativity.

The Boston-born son of Irish immigrants, Joe Derrane is among the finest button accordionists in the history of Celtic music. He is also a somewhat elusive legend in the genre. After recording during the 1940s and '50s, he disappeared from the traditional music circuit for thirty-five years, popping up again in 1994 at the Irish Folk Festival at Wolf Trap. Since his career's resurgence he has proved wrong F. Scott Fitzgerald's famous quote "there are no second acts in American lives".

Over the past 16 years, Derrane has written 22 tunes and his current writing and recorded output is the most imaginative and inventive of his career. In 2004 Derrane received one of the highest honors for a traditional musician: the National Endowment for the Arts' National Heritage Fellowship.

The album was recorded at Derrane's home on Grove Lane in Massachusetts - the home he and his wife Anne shared for 53 years before her passing in 2008 - over a series of sessions with acoustic guitarist John McGann. Notable tracks include the original tango "Tango Derrane" and the romantic ode "Waltzing with Anne" written in memory of his late wife.

Grove Lane firmly establishes Derrane as one of the great masters of the button accordion. No one sounds like Joe Derrane or has as significant an impact on the rising generation of aspiring button accordion virtuosos.
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