Now available direct from Gadfly Records:
($15 per CD, including postage/shipping)

Black 47's "New York Town" 
(mp3 clips available at www.gadflyrecords.com)

Gadfly Records is proud to announce the release of New York Town, from 
seminal Irish rockers Black 47 -- the group's first studio album in five years.  New 
York Town is steeped in the same social and political fervor that established 
Black 47 as a musical force fourteen years ago.  

Known as the “House Band of New York City,” it is fitting that the latest 
release from Black 47 should be dedicated to their hometown.  As founder Larry 
Kirwan explains, “this is an album of photos, some now sepia-toned, others 
glaringly digital. It’s a love letter to the city that took me in (in more ways 
than one), and gave birth to Black 47.”  New York Town contains guest vocal and 
instrumental appearances from Rosanne Cash, David Johansen, Suzzy Roche and 
Eileen Ivers, among others.  “I wanted to write about the city, both pre and 
post 9/11, and show what it’s like, from the inside, by featuring the voices and 
skills of some real New Yorkers.” 

New York Town is a musical melting pot of rock, folk, hip-hop, reggae, 
Celtic, country, swing and jazz influences.  Still passionate, fiery and 
uncompromising in an age of polls and opinion groups, Kirwan’s lyrics ooze a palpable 
love for the city, and place people from all five boroughs in situations both 
autobiographical and fictional.  On the title track, the band tackles the social 
and political questions of 9/11 head on; “Ain’t no smoke without a fire, 
people want answers not patronizing.”  While Mychal - in cool, unemotional terms - 
tells the story of Black 47 fan, the late Father Mychal Judge, chaplain of 
the NYFD.

The ballad Fiona’s Song features Rosanne Cash acting out the tale of a young 
Irish woman who finds solace, if not happiness, on Queens Boulevard.  In 
Staten Island Baby, David Johansen characteristically rips it up, explaining to a 
NYC police officer “in his pajamas pointin’ his piece at me,” why he’s kept 
his daughter out until 5 a.m.  And in Livin’ in America – 11 Years On, Kirwan 
and Mary Courtney update the bittersweet relationship of a couple who first 
met in a bar on Fordham Road in the early 90’s. 


Mitch Cantor
Gadfly Records
"fighting the battle of the bland"
PO Box 5231
Burlington, VT 05402
802-865-2406
gadfly1@aol.com
www.gadflyrecords.com

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Mitch Cantor
Gadfly Records
45 Woodbine Rd.
Shelburne, VT 05482