Role Singer · roesy.net Name Roesy Roesy | ||
Albums Sketch the Day, Paint the Night, Only Love is Real, Fable Similar Declan O'Rourke, Paddy Casey, The Young Folk, Juliet Turner, Mark Geary Profiles | ||
Roesy, from Birr, County Offaly, is an Irish singer-songwriter. His debut album "Sketch the Day, Paint the Night" (2001) was followed by "The Spirit Store" in 2003 and "Only Love is Real" in 2004. These albums were released on his Birr-based label Blue Cloak Records.
Through his career he has shared the stage with Bert Jansch, Ron Sexsmith, Paul Brady, Billy Bragg, John Martyn, Davy Spillane, Donovan, Shane MacGowan, fellow Offaly musicians Mundy and Dan Foley, plus celebrated Irish author Paul Durcan.
Roesy appeared in the first Other Voices TV series on RTE. He was nominated for Best New Irish Act in the 2004 Meteor Music Awards and voted no.8 in the Trad/Folk section of the Annual Hot Press Awards 2005. His song "Potosi Mine" was included in the "Diamond Mountain Session Presents" compilation CD, also featuring Sinead O'Connor, Steve Earle, Natalie Merchant and Sharon Shannon.
On the 2003 charity album Even Better than the Real Thing Vol. 1, Roesy performed a cover version of the song Breathe by Blu Cantrell. On 2004's Even Better than the Real Thing Vol. 2, he performed a cover version of Beyonce Knowles's Naughty Girl.
Songs
Wolf Counsel
In You Come
Sober Clown
Shake the Devil Down
The Swaying Tree
Forever All
Colour Me Colourful
Only Love is Real
Learning to Crawl
Hell Bent on You
Rain in the Deepest Root
Trailin the True Star
Hairpin
Night Hawks
Sister and Song
Delaney Lied
No Time For Crowds
Potosi Mine
Palace of the Heart
No More Lie
Planets to Stars
Paperboat
If Only For A Day
I'm on for Livin
Wherever I Wander
Follow the Road
Empty Cup
What Would I Know
One of the Same
Songs are Forever
I Wandered Out on a Star
Take It With Me