J. Eoin ~ Reviews
Catching the Singing Bug
From: The Stage
Irish folk singer, songwriter and acoustic
guitarist J. Eoin from Limerick found the
millennium bug scare a good luck charm.
On millennium bug night on September 9,
1999, he was promoting his new single 'Eve
of Solution' when something very
unexpected happened.
"Someone in the audience said they
really liked what I was doing and I
explained that the reason I had done the
single was as a stop gap as I did not have
enough money to make an album. He
said he could put up private money.
I had spent a number of years trying to
get to record labels and then a complete
stranger comes up and says 'I think I can
afford to help you'"
J. Eoin is proud of his new album consisting
of 12 songs with titles that include Mother
Tongue and I'm No Angel. He says: "I put
together the musicians, played all the
guitar parts and produced it."
A familiar figure on the folk and acoustic
circuit, J. Eoin began as a solo artist then
moved to New York where he was influenced
by the thriving folk scene there. He then
returned to Europe and is now based in
London where he is a regular performer at
many of the capital's venues including The
12 Bar Club in the West End.
Summing up, J. Eoin says: "Isee myself as
a folk musician - and folk is people. I love
to sit down and play with local people
anywhere and music is a universal
language."
