NEWS - NEW ALBUM LAUNCH AND CONCERT 2022
What Do You Dream - 12-track cd and digital album
Award-winning Cashel Singer/Songwriter Billy O'Dwyer Bob will be in Concert at the Source Arts Centre in Thurles on the 15th of September at 8pm. He will be launching his fourth album, an all-original 12-track CD and digital album titled 'What Do You Dream'. Billy, who has been writing songs for many years, cites his influences as ranging from Irish songwriters such as Percy French, Johnny McEvoy, and Christy Moore to country folk legends such as Willie Nelson, John Prine, and Johnny Cash. His own music is of a country folk style with a traditional flavour. Billy's songs have been recorded by other artists including major Irish artist Daniel O'Donnell, who had a hit with his song, 'Tipperary Girl'. All of Billy's albums are self-released, and he is currently working on his fifth album. www.billyodwyerbob.com and www.billyodwyerbob.bandcamp.com
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THEN WE CRUCIFIED HIM
NEWLY RELEASED SINGLE now available for download from Billy O'Dwyer Bob's up and coming album to be released later this year. Click image to listen/download. |
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MONA LISA SMILE
Now available for download (click image). Billy O'Dwyer Bob held a Concert at the Brú Ború Cultural Arts Centre in Cashel, County Tipperary, Ireland on 20th July 2014 launching new original 11-track CD, 'Mona Lisa Smile'. |
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Coming Soon: The Ballad of Jesse James 4-track EP
Due out soon - Pre-Ordering available soon...for information, CLICK HERE
Watch this space for new 11-track album, also due out soon!
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Watch this space for new 11-track album, also due out soon!
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The Christmas Blues
RELEASED IN DECEMBER 2012
THE CHRISTMAS BLUES - 2-track digital single
Click HERE to download or listen
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THE CHRISTMAS BLUES - 2-track digital single
Click HERE to download or listen
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REVIEW of The Christmas Blues
Irish Music Magazine - Sean Laffey, Editor
BILLY O’DWYER BOB’ S CHRISTMAS BUNDLE
If you are looking for an unknown star to hover over your stable this holiday season, then hitch your camel to the music of Billy O’Dwyer Bob.
Most artists are content bringing out one Christmas song in a decade; Billy has two out in a week. There’s a retro feel about them both, travel back to late 50’s America, a year or two before Mad Men. An America peopled by wiry wide-eyed kids in auditioning for Norman Rockwell paintings. This is American before the self-questioning doubts of the Vietnam generation. Billy's Christmas Blues, is catchy and joyful, he says in the chorus he has the Christmas blues and we suspect that’s because Christmas only lasts a few days each year.
If Billy’s Christmas Blues is secular, then his Born on Christmas Day has the feel of a home made shape note hymnal, a hint of something sung at crossroads Baptist church a few miles south of Harrisburg. Billy is from Tipperary but he’s captured all the simplicity of pre-Nixon America and the eternal innocence of Christmas in a brace of songs that fit the season perfectly.
Sean Laffey, Editor Irish Music Magazine.
If you are looking for an unknown star to hover over your stable this holiday season, then hitch your camel to the music of Billy O’Dwyer Bob.
Most artists are content bringing out one Christmas song in a decade; Billy has two out in a week. There’s a retro feel about them both, travel back to late 50’s America, a year or two before Mad Men. An America peopled by wiry wide-eyed kids in auditioning for Norman Rockwell paintings. This is American before the self-questioning doubts of the Vietnam generation. Billy's Christmas Blues, is catchy and joyful, he says in the chorus he has the Christmas blues and we suspect that’s because Christmas only lasts a few days each year.
If Billy’s Christmas Blues is secular, then his Born on Christmas Day has the feel of a home made shape note hymnal, a hint of something sung at crossroads Baptist church a few miles south of Harrisburg. Billy is from Tipperary but he’s captured all the simplicity of pre-Nixon America and the eternal innocence of Christmas in a brace of songs that fit the season perfectly.
Sean Laffey, Editor Irish Music Magazine.
REVIEW of I'll See You Tonight in My Dreams
Country Music People magazine - UK - Al Moir
ALBUM REVIEW: The following review is from the September 2005 issue of 'Country Music People' magazine (UK)-reviewer: Al Moir.
Billy O'Dwyer 'I'll See You Tonight in My Dreams' 'Baby, That's The Way Life Goes'/'Cold Lonely Walls'/'The Ballad Of Alan Bannister'/'The Bumblebee'/'The Cry'/'It's Just You'/'Funny'/'You Don't Own My Mind'/'I'll See You Tonight In My Dreams'/'The Prayer' Producers: Billy O'Dwyer, Karen Colbert & Eamon Quinlan Self release KB002 (48:27) * * *
Singer-songwriter Billy O'Dwyer is from the Emerald Isle and possesses a pronounced Irish brogue that is wholly absorbing. He has written all the material and proves to be a good storyteller, with several of his compositions being dark and brooding. 'Cold Lonely Walls' tells of a beautiful and proud woman who is left desolate following the death of her lover. 'The Ballad of Alan Bannister' is a searing indictment of the American justice system: the song's subject was found guilty of murdering an alleged drug baron in 1982 and sentenced to death. Like Caryl Chessman, Karla Faye, and others before him, he spent 15 years on Death Row before being executed in 1997. His death caused considerable controversy and O'Dwyer tells the story lucidly with more than a small measure of anger and bitterness. 'The Cry' is another tragic story of sudden death within a family, possibly the suicide of a young person, and the anguish and pain felt by the father hits home forcefully. Billy O'Dwyer is new to me, but I would hazard a guess that he has listened to the likes of John Prine and Kris Kristofferson. Certainly Prine could have written and recorded 'Funny' without his fans questioning the authorship, whilst echoes of Kristofferson's writing style are apparent in at least two songs, 'You Don't Own My Mind' and the title track. It's not all downbeat, though, and the light-hearted 'Bumblebee' certainly left me with a smile on my face. O'Dwyer is a word painter and his uncomplicated yet catchy melodies serve as a solid vehicle for his lyrics. What I particularly like about his work is the simplicity of the backings. With just guitar, harmonica, the occasional piano and fiddle, with muted bass, flute on a couple of tracks, and subtly played bongos, this is by no means a polished performance, but it comes as an honest and refreshing change to much of the technically proficient, highly manufactured music we are so often force fed. -Al Moir - (see 'Country Music People' - UK)
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Billy O'Dwyer 'I'll See You Tonight in My Dreams' 'Baby, That's The Way Life Goes'/'Cold Lonely Walls'/'The Ballad Of Alan Bannister'/'The Bumblebee'/'The Cry'/'It's Just You'/'Funny'/'You Don't Own My Mind'/'I'll See You Tonight In My Dreams'/'The Prayer' Producers: Billy O'Dwyer, Karen Colbert & Eamon Quinlan Self release KB002 (48:27) * * *
Singer-songwriter Billy O'Dwyer is from the Emerald Isle and possesses a pronounced Irish brogue that is wholly absorbing. He has written all the material and proves to be a good storyteller, with several of his compositions being dark and brooding. 'Cold Lonely Walls' tells of a beautiful and proud woman who is left desolate following the death of her lover. 'The Ballad of Alan Bannister' is a searing indictment of the American justice system: the song's subject was found guilty of murdering an alleged drug baron in 1982 and sentenced to death. Like Caryl Chessman, Karla Faye, and others before him, he spent 15 years on Death Row before being executed in 1997. His death caused considerable controversy and O'Dwyer tells the story lucidly with more than a small measure of anger and bitterness. 'The Cry' is another tragic story of sudden death within a family, possibly the suicide of a young person, and the anguish and pain felt by the father hits home forcefully. Billy O'Dwyer is new to me, but I would hazard a guess that he has listened to the likes of John Prine and Kris Kristofferson. Certainly Prine could have written and recorded 'Funny' without his fans questioning the authorship, whilst echoes of Kristofferson's writing style are apparent in at least two songs, 'You Don't Own My Mind' and the title track. It's not all downbeat, though, and the light-hearted 'Bumblebee' certainly left me with a smile on my face. O'Dwyer is a word painter and his uncomplicated yet catchy melodies serve as a solid vehicle for his lyrics. What I particularly like about his work is the simplicity of the backings. With just guitar, harmonica, the occasional piano and fiddle, with muted bass, flute on a couple of tracks, and subtly played bongos, this is by no means a polished performance, but it comes as an honest and refreshing change to much of the technically proficient, highly manufactured music we are so often force fed. -Al Moir - (see 'Country Music People' - UK)
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The Wind in Her Hair from The Time Has Come
The Irish Scene magazine - Australia - Colin Merry
...I particularly liked the ballad “The Wind in Her Hair" - this is a real beauty...
- Colin Merry, The Irish Scene magazine, Australia
(Colin Merry's Reviews - March/April 2013 issue)
- Colin Merry, The Irish Scene magazine, Australia
(Colin Merry's Reviews - March/April 2013 issue)
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IRISH MUSIC MAGAZINE - Music Reviews by Nicky Rossiter and John O'Regan - (see 'Irish Music Magazine')
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IRISH MUSIC MAGAZINE - Music Reviews by Nicky Rossiter and John O'Regan - (see 'Irish Music Magazine')
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THE HARP (UK) - Music Review by Charles Patrick - September 2009 Issue (see below)
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