Tom Hanway joins Hazard Hollow with two upcoming shows in Galway

Ruth Dillon

Tom Hanway is proud to announce that he has teamed up with songwriter Ruth Dillon and Bernie O’Mahony in Hazard Hollow, an original and contemporary bluegrass/country outfit.

Hazard Hollow has two shows this weekend at the Crane Bar in Galway: on Friday the 12th and Saturday the 13th of December, 9.30 p.m.

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Tom Hanway, Sharon Shannon, and Winnie Horan (photo: Denise Hanway)

Major digital download stores - Amazon, iTunes, Napster, Rhapsody, Lala, eMusic, Nokia, Liquid, MEdia Net, PassAlong, Puretracks, SNOCAP, SpiralFrog - are now doing Tom Hanway music downloads as MP3s.

Most recently, iTunes uploaded Tom’s three albums as MP3s - search on iTunes under 'Tom Hanway', 'Tom Hanway & Blue Horizon' or 'Tom Hanway & Vassar Clements'. Tom's website has the album covers, liner notes, and quick MP3 downloads.

Tom Hanway: Bucket of bees (13 tracks), Tom Hanway & Blue Horizon (15 tracks) and Tom Hanway & Vassar Clements: the Badbelly project: Hesitation blues (14 tracks) are now available as digital downloads in the following formats: (1) as entire albums, (2) a la carte (all 42 songs), and (3) as ringtones. Tom adds:

On Bucket of bees I had just gotten into composing tunes in a Celtic style, e.g. 'Morgaine's Hornpipe', but this was a traditional and contemporary bluegrass/newgrass record. Sam Bush and Jerry Douglas were in their Telluride Sessions period, so this recording, especially 'Bucket of bees', has that vibe. It was an exciting time to be recording in Nashville and New York - and this album features the top bluegrass session men from both towns. Bil VornDick, the legendary Nashville engineer and producer, helped me organise the pickers for the Nashville session - he made that session happen. He also made me produce, but I kept asking Jerry, Sam, and Stuart Duncan for advice, and I took it!

'Elephant hop' from that CD made it onto Prime Cuts of Bluegrass, vol. 1, and in a national bluegrass survey was voted the #1 track by bluegrass deejays, narrowly edging out Earl Scruggs's and John McEuen's recording of 'Carolina traveler' - ensuring me airplay and distribution with County Sales (Record Depot) at the time.