I'm in the paper.

Today the Concord Monitor ran an article about me and the new CD of drinking songs. You can read the whole thing right here. Here's an excerpt:

Jim Tyrrell is a born storyteller - which is good, since he spends much of his life telling stories in song. So as he tells the story, he was a local guy performing regularly at bars and clubs throughout New Hampshire, offering a mix of original, often humorous songs, and sometimes-raucous cover tunes.
Then one time he got booked at a pub in Plymouth around St. Patrick's Day, and they asked if he could work an Irish song or two into his repertoire. He said he could.

"Before I knew it, the show was being advertised as 'four hours of Celtic Music' featuring me," Tyrrell said. "It was a brutal surprise - I was suddenly on the hook."

Tyrrell took on the challenge though, learning a couple of traditional Irish tunes and then - because he is equal parts writer and performer - he wrote himself some songs in the style of the traditional tunes.

The result of that almost-mishap is Tyrrell's CD Time For Another Round: Gold Edition, his collection of drinking songs. He'll perform many tunes from the Another Round collection at shows in the coming weeks, including a visit to The Pit Road Lounge in Concord tomorrow night.

Okay, to be fair, the Pit Road gig is with (Who Are The) Brain Police, and there won't be many drinking songs there. If you want to hear the drinking songs, come out to Lago next Monday, or to Ragged Mountain or The Lucky Dog on St. Pat's.

And there's a couple other things in the article that don't exactly tell the story the way I'd have wanted to tell it. (Most notably, I acutally think there's a great wealth of storytelling songwriters in the area, and you can find links to many of them over there on the right.) But that's the press for you. And for the most part, Victoria Shouldis did a very nice job of summing up what I do.