I always like to compare B47s Larry Kirwan to an
Irish-American, Bruce Springsteen. Like Springsteen, Kirwan has a special
ability to bring alive ordinary people in both song and story and turn their
ordinary lives into 3 minute anthems. Though, I would claim Larry has the
advantage of the bigger canvas of NYC for people and sounds to work
with.
Bankers and Gangsters itself is a very fine release
with some very fine individual tracks that both long time fans and even the “I
don’t like Larry’s voice crew” will love. Highlights included - “Celtic Rocker”,
the summer radio hit “That Summer Dress” and “The Long Lost Tapes of Hendrix”
with its uilleann pipe solo. “Red Hugh” brings me back to Springsteen and a line
of his but in this case its “We learned more Irish history from a 3 minute
record then we ever learned in school”.
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