Jackdaw (band)

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Jackdaw
Origin South Buffalo, New York, USA
Genre(s) Celtic punk
Hardcore punk
Oi! / Streetpunk
Website http://www.brokencans.com/
Members
David A. Moore
Tim Byrne
George Tutuska
Tommy Jordan
Joe Davies
Former members
Mike Jordan

Jackdaw is a Celtic-Rock band from Buffalo, NY. One of the group's members, George Tutuska, was a former drummer for the Goo Goo Dolls.[1] The band formed in 2000, when George started the group with some childhood friends. Coming from a South Buffalo-Irish background, the group wanted to play rock with an Irish bent (often called "Irish-Rock" or "Celtic-Rock"). In keeping with that theme, the band took its name from a passage from the Frank McCourt memoir Angela's Ashes.

Mike Jordan, who performed vocals and played the guitar, left the band in November 2004. The band has remained a five-piece group ever since. In 2006, a compilation of their first three albums and EPs entitled Brilliant, Sad & Guilty was released. The two disc album includes interviews, live tracks, and studio outtakes.

Jackdaw lovingly refers to its most devout followers as the "Jacks" and "Jackies"

Jackdaw has won Buffalo's Best Rock Band (and on one occasion beating fellow nominee the Goo Goo Dolls), presented by the free publication Artvoice, in 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, and 2007. Member David A. Moore has also won Buffalo's Best Musician, and been nominated for "King of Charisma", as well as "Best Individual Vocalist". Thursday at the Square]]. In July 2007, the band opened for Pete Best and his band at Club Infinity in Williamsville, NY.

As of February 2, 2008, the band has been on "indefinite hiatus"

Contents

[edit] Current members

  • Tim Byrne: Guitar, mandolin, banjo, piano, vocals
  • Joe Davies: Fiddle
  • Tommy Jordan: Bass, backing vocals
  • David A. Moore: Accordion, highland bagpipes, uilleann pipes, whistles, concertina, buttonbox, hurdy gurdy, vocals
  • George Tutuska: Drums

[edit] Discography

[edit] Albums

Armed And Legged (2000)

  • 1) Broken Cans
  • 2) Raise a Glass
  • 3) Corner Bar
  • 4) Maggie
  • 5) Black and Tans
  • 6) Drunken Piper/Cork Hill
  • 7) Paddy
  • 8) Out in the Ocean

Jackdaw (2001)

  • 1) Introduction
  • 2) Molly
  • 3) Hit the Floor
  • 4) Billy Brown
  • 5) Pigtail Man
  • 5) Black and Tans
  • 6) Hogjaw
  • 7) Something About Nothing
  • 8) Sore Eyes
  • 9) Pieces
  • 10) Gutterfly
  • 11) Nala
  • 12) Sorry Again
  • 13) Proofrock
  • 14) Mist Covered Mountains/Chi Mi Na Morbheanna / Mise Éire / Labhair An Teanga Ghaeilge
  • 15) Bagpipes at Midnight

Triple Crown (2004)[1]

  • 1) Denied
  • 2) Irish in Me (The Morning Star)
  • 3) Scrapbook
  • 4) Sally Gooden
  • 5) 3 Month Girl (The Triangular Trade)
  • 6) Etch-a-Sketch
  • 7) Falling for You
  • 8) Sooner or Later
  • 9) Brown Shoes
  • 10) Cruel
  • 11) The Book (Losing, My Friend)
  • 51) The Cover Band

Brilliant, Sad & Guilty (2006)

Blackgrass (2007)

  • 1) Don't Tell Me Now
  • 2) Everything Seems So Damn Simple
  • 3) Parade
  • 4) Dance
  • 5) Bye Bye Lust
  • 6) Annelise
  • 7) Shiny Black With Rain
  • 8) Shout Out at Me
  • 9) Bombshelle
  • 10) Jamie
  • 11) Galway Girl
  • 12) Spaghetti Western
  • 13) Supersize
  • 14) All My Life

[edit] EPs

Whiskey (2001)

  • 1) Where is Claire?
  • 2) Devil With One Leg
  • 3) So Far

Seven (2001)

  • 1) Butcher Boy
  • 2) Black Cat Luck
  • 3) LV82

[edit] Singles

Cruel/The Book (2004)

  • 1) Cruel
  • 2) The Book (Losing, My Friend)[Acoustic]

[edit] Compilations

  • Paddy Rock Radio Volume 1 - (Something About Nothing)
  • Shite'n'Onions Volume 2 - (Hogjaw)
  • Bring It Back To Life - (Pigtail Man)

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b Hosey, Kevin J. Jackdaw releases new CD, to tour Ireland with friends. BuffaloRoots.com. Retrieved on 2007-03-05.

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