Howl On

Studio album by Bap Kennedy

Released

August 3, 2009

Language

Lonely Street Discs

Bap Kennedy

Bap Kennedy chronology

The Big Picture
(2005)

Howl On
(2009)

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Howl On the fourth solo studio album by Bap Kennedy, was released on August 3, 2009 (see 2009 in music) on Kennedy's new label, Lonely Street Discs. Excluding a cover of "Hey Joe", all songs on the album were written by Kennedy. This is the first album he has written and recorded in his native Northern Ireland. This album features songs that were inspired by Kennedy's childhood memories of growing up with the influence of the popular American music rock icons Elvis Presley and Jimi Hendrix and the country music of Hank Williams. The songs also relate to 1960s American political figures: John F. Kennedy and to events: the 1969 moon landing and with Kennedy's childhood obsession with the American Dream. Although the worldwide release was August 3, 2009, the album was released in Northern Ireland on July 4, 2009 with Kennedy's appearance at the Black Box in Belfast.

Henry McCullough, the only Irishman to play at the , plays guitar on Kennedy's rendition of the Hendrix classic, "Hey Joe".

Kennedy's wife, singer-songwriter Brenda Kennedy, performs as backing vocalist on the album.

Kennedy's inspiration for most of the songs on the album came forty years ago when the American astronauts on Apollo 11 landed on the moon on July 20, 1969, when Kennedy was a seven-year-old boy living in Belfast. A month later, Jimi Hendrix's appearance as the final act at the with a performance of "Hey Joe" served as further inspiration.

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