Martin Devaney - Somebody Somewhere

Onstage, Martin Devaney projects an energetic, brash, and hardly self-serious persona. Turns out he's not much different away from the spotlight: Recently I was playing records on the radio, hosting a two-hour show I do each month on WNUR-FM in Evanston, Illinois. Devaney, listening via the Web from his St. Paul home, called up the studio and in a comically phony voice requested one of his own songs, then launched into a mock tirade when I said I didn't have the disc.

That sense of humor is a great asset to Devaney the songwriter, and it defines the best moments of his debut long-player, Somebody Somewhere. It's amply evident on Bowling (On Valentine's Day) and it pervades Landlord's Daughter, a goofy, jangling anthem that might as easily have been penned by Joey Ramone, Jim Ruiz, or Woody Guthrie. The chorus: I'm in love with the landlord's daughter/Daddy found the ring I bought her/Now I don't know where she went/And Daddy raised the rent. ~ Full Review at CityPages

Track Listing :

• Carry On
• Cardboard Ballerina
• To Rebecca
• Landlord's Daughter
• Losin' End
• Skyline
• Ballad of a Windy City Queen
• Down in Middletown
• River Road
• 14th Ave. Lullaby
• Bowling (on Valentine's Day)
• Things to Come
• Somebody Somewhere

Find out more at Martin Devaney's Website