Marc Carroll - Stone Beads and Silver

Marc Carroll has travelled from his native Dublin to London and back and then onto Los Angeles to pursue his musical vision. "I've always travelled. I'll go anywhere that is purposeful to me. The music comes first. It always has and always will. People have suffered because of that, probably me too, but I just can't help that," he says.

Carroll's new studio album, Stone Beads And Silver — represents a significant change. Previously playing all instruments on his solo recordings, for the new record — recorded in Los Angeles and Woodstock during the summer of 2012 — Carroll drafted in a host of high-ranking musicians to play on the 10-song set.

Also for the first time Carroll drafted in a defacto producer — Grammy Award winner Chris Testa (Jimmy Eat World, Band Of Horses, Dixie Chicks) to work alongside him on the sessions in Los Angeles, where he now resides.

Each album Carroll has recorded over the last 10 or so years — Ten Of Swords, World On A Wire, All Wrongs Reversed and Dust Of Rumour — stand as a tribute to his single-minded determination and talent. Stone Beads And Silver weaves together folk and country influences while evoking the space and distance of the deserts and coasts of California. It's yet another turning point in his long and often varied career.

Side 1

Muskingum River

The Fool Disguised in Beggars Clothes

Nobody, No Nothin’

They’ll Never Find Us Here

If Only to Remind Her

Side 2

(It Was) Lust Not Love

The Silence I Command

Sat Neath Her Window

You Can Never Go Home

Delicate Grace

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