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Pull The Right Rope

by Junior Brother

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kitschy.bitch This album is so filled with palpable emotions, it's beautiful and sad and full of anguish. Very raw and real, even better live x Favorite track: Big House.
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iamtheflowergirl Very vulnerable writing that feels very familiar to me. Thank you Favorite track: The Back Of Her.
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davidoriellymartin so after a few listens , the reality of the bardic brilliance of this album has sunk in , having myself coming from a punk rock background then over the years falling in love with Irish and British folk music ,this combines the two brilliantly , well done Ronan , hope to catch you live soon
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yknowyerself Absolutely essential. You'd be hard pressed to find a better folk-y album this year. Favorite track: You Will Know My Name.
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Joel Sitar Hits you square in the gut and heart, old beyond years Favorite track: I Told You I Would Leave.
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Coping 03:25
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Big House 06:32
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Pull The Right Rope is the debut album from Kerry artist Junior Brother.

Pull The Right Rope in measurement is 9 songs long and 48 minutes deep. The 9 songs range the varied emotions of an artist stretching himself to his limits to convey them.
Written between the ages of 20 and 25, recorded from Winter 2017 to Autumn 2018, the songs grew in Ailfionn Studios, Drumcondra under the hand of Chris Barry. They grew into green plants stretching up into sky but rooted in dirty muck.

The 9 emotions sprouted several other emotions and mindsets within them, conflicting and corresponding with one another, creating a river of reckless abandon. The artist on top of all this steers his small boat to the shore, but must choose the right rope for bow, stern and spring.

When the boat pulls each, each brings the boat in.
The artist is moored as the emotions flow on.
The listener must do this too - with the right rope pulled, the head is safe, to see joyful, sad, funny, or tormented thoughts, just before they leave and go down river to sea.

“This album's artwork was painted by Conor Campbell. The cover is based on the Tarot card image of 'Four of Cups'. When I saw this scene on a Tarot card, I thought the scene and meaning of the image fit with the tone and imagined landscape of the album. I sit on a knoll under a tall tree far away from the bustle of city life with my tambourine under my foot and my sock over my other. I am pale and quietly distressed, seen considering the 3 empty cups before me, looking to the listener. I appear not to notice the full cup handed to me from a strange cloud behind. Just as the listener must choose which emotion out of many on the album to take away, the artist on the cover must make the effort to turn and take the 4th full cup. With no words bearing the title on the cover, these cups do the job instead, a cup for each word. The Rope being the full cup, the effort to Pull being the effort to turn and Take it. We don't know if the figure on the front will do this or not. So, he looks to you instead to choose the right cup” – Junior Brother

Tracklist – 1. Coping / 2. Big House / 3. The Back Of Her / 4. Full Of Wine / 5. You Will Know My Name / 6. Purple Circle / 7. I Told You I Would Leave / 8. Girth & Plain / 9. I Will Have To Keep An Eye On You And Win You Back When You Are Free /

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Born outside Killarney, Co. Kerry, Ronan Kealy developed a strong love of music from an early age, writing his first song at 9 years old after having taught himself guitar on a banged-up nylon acoustic. A short spell studying English in University College Cork helped Kealy to foster his unique and striking poetic voice, taking his Junior Brother moniker from a character in Jacobean play "The Revenger's Tragedy", a work Kealy studied there. Junior Brother has spent the last few years gaining a fine live reputation and picking up fans such as Blindboy Boatclub and Cillian Murphy along the way.
LIVE with Powpig (Double headliners)
April 17 - Roisin Dubh, Galway
April 18 - Grand Social, Dublin (as part of MusicTown)
April 19 - The Kasbah Social Club, Dolans, Limerick
TOUR DATES
May 10-12 – It Takes A Village, Cork

May 24 – Odd Mollies, Drogheda

May 31 – Limelight, Belfast

June 2 – The Way Of The West, Cork

June 8 – Central Arts, Waterford

July 6 – Pot Duggans, Ennystimon

July 19 – Knockanstockan

Juiy 21 – Trad & Folk Festival, Claremorris





Sep 6 Cork Opera House (Opening for The Proclaimers)

Sep 7 Bord Gáis Theatre, Dublin (Opening for The Proclaimers)

Sep 8 The Waterfront, Belfast (Opening for The Proclaimers)

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released May 24, 2019

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Junior Brother County Kerry, Ireland

Singer from Co. Kerry, Ireland with an acoustic guitar and tambourine playing alternative Irish folk.

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