| Love Irish music? Love cats? Curl up in your favorite | | | | points out. "It's more like a traditional Irish CD with a |
| chair - Irish Drinking Songs For Cat Lovers by Marc | | | | combination of drinking songs and Irish tunes, except |
| Gunn & The Dubliners' Tabby Cats will tickle | | | | the chief instrument is an autoharp and I sing about |
| your feline fancy. | | | | cats." |
| Irish Drinking Songs For Cat Lovers is the pet project | | | | That is the beauty of Irish Drinking Songs For Cat |
| by Marc Gunn, singer-songwriter and one-half of the | | | | Lovers - the songs are part of the patchwork of |
| award-winning duo, the Brobdingnagian Bards. Full of | | | | American music, a culture with deep Irish roots. Marc |
| funny feline folk music, Irish Drinking Songs For Cat | | | | Gunn has extensive experience as not only a |
| Lovers gathers popular drinking tunes and retrofits | | | | recording musician but as a veteran performer in |
| them with cat-worthy lyrics. The result is a warm and | | | | renaissance fairs and fantasy festivals. The result is a |
| wonderful CD that sees songs such as "Lord of the | | | | clever collection of music that appeals to not only |
| Dance" redone as "Lord of the Pounce." | | | | Irish and cat lovers, but anyone who appreciates a |
| Why take Irish drinking songs and rewrite them with | | | | lyrical laugh. |
| lyrics about cats? "Well, I was a big fan of Weird Al | | | | Japan's Ari Koinuma, also a cat lover, produced Irish |
| growing up," confesses Gunn, himself owned by two | | | | Drinking Songs For Cat Lovers. Participating musicians |
| cats named Tiziano and Torre plus visiting rights with | | | | include Hannah Gunn and Cedric the Fiddler of the |
| the tabby Jasper, from a previous relationship. "When | | | | Bedlam Bards. Additional musicians include Chris |
| I listen to a song too often, I typically will change the | | | | Buckley, Sarah Dinan, Hamby, April Porter, Blake |
| lyrics. I did that with 'Wild Rover,' changing the claps | | | | McCaig, and Franco Bordoni. Marc Gunn wrote all the |
| to meows. It was all downhill from there." | | | | lyrics to the classic songs. |
| "The CD is also not just Irish drinking songs," Gunn | | | | |