Words: Connie Kelleher
Music: Hank Wedel and Eleanor Healy
IMRO

I chose this as the title track because
it represents, to me, a time of transformation...
It was the first time that I had been in a
recording studio since 1989 to record
my own songs
Mark Atkins and John O'Donaghue ran
Elm Tree Studios here in Cork City
They said:
"Come on down and bring what you got!"
Dennis Herlihy offered to produce...
What I had to hand at that point was this song
which started as a guitar line,
Eleanor Healy suggested chords
and one day, out The Lower Road, I sang
Connie Kelleher's printed lyrics and there was the song!
Around this time, I recall
a fellow Cork based performer friend,
Steve Sullivan, suggest that I play
the opening D chord as “Asus4”...
Well, alright!

By that time, early 1993, Open Kitchen
had been the house Rock'n'Roll band
at The Lobby, Cork City since 1990
1991-92 had seen the departure of
guitarist Billy Attridge and vocalist Carol Barrett...
leaving bassist Pat O'Driscoll and drummer Paul Moore
to keep the kitchen open with me...
During this time, The Lobby became a hub for
Cork City Folk Trad. musos...
Which is why the great piper Brendan Ring
plays the solo on this track...
Dennis Herlihy brought in
Keybord Wiz Niall Herbie Macken
I brought in Eleanor Healy to sing
and Brian Carroll to play the tambourine

~ first released as the title track of a 3 song cassette
sold as Merch on a wonderful 3 week tour of
Brittany Summer 1993
~ released as one of four songs on the Open Kitchen
CD EP/Cassette "Easier Said Than Done" 1995
on Paddy McNichol’s Rescue Records label
~ released as the very last track of the album
"Hank Wedel's Open Kitchen On Princes Street" 1997
on Paddy McNichol’s Rescue Records label
It never got all that much radio airplay but it was
a live favourite of every subsequent lineup of Open Kitchen


If yer actually reading all this stuff, be advised
the hidden track here is of Open Kitchen 1994
goofin' off during a gig at Connolly's of Leap...
This whole early to mid -1990s period saw much
coming and going in the band's line up 'cos...
"yer fired!" sez Mal Blackie

PS Connie Kelleher is well known these days
as an expert on Marine Archeology
check her work out here
www.amazon.co.uk/Alliance-Pirates-Ireland-Atlantic-seventeenth/dp/1782053654