Dunno about him being a great singer but he truly was a poetic songwriter.
It's strange so many Irish C&W stars claim KK was one of their favourites and a classic example of the old Don Williams saying that country music is about people. But then you look at the sort of soft-focus shayte put out by our country singers here and the "hardest" lyrics on Ireland's many ubiquitous human problems might well be Big Tom's
Four Roads From Glenamaddy: the word leaving or immigration is never heard in it.
Fat chance of getting anything hard-hitting from today's Irish C&W shower on house prices, hospital queues or drop-downs in NSs
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