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Ierse drinking songs!

Murphy and crew are back with a new album of Irish Drinking Songs releasing on St Patricks Weekend (March 16th & 17th 2012) in Fargo and Minneapolis.

Murphy's Empty Shot - Reunion & CD Release: This has been years in the making! Don't miss Wookiefoot's Irish Project - Murphy's Empty Shot perform St. Patrick's Weekend 2012. This will be Empty Shot's 1st show in 4 years and the first place the new CD will be available! To celebrate the release of the new CD "The Halfs and The Half Nots" and the first show of the new season, Murphy's Empty Shot will be playing 2 St. Patty's Day shows. Fargo and Minneapolis - get ready to paint the town green!

Why Irish Drinking Songs? The back story:

Murphy's Empty Shot is a side project of Mark Murphy and other members of Wookiefoot that is heavily inspired by Traditional Irish Drinking songs that Murphy, an Irishman, learned as a kid from his grandfather and father. The project came together after years of Wookiefoot playing St. Patty's day shows. The mid-March concerts became a tradition not long after Wookiefoot started touring. After the band began traveling to various destinations overseas during the winter, the St Patrick's day events became a reunion for the band as well as a homecoming celebration. Over the years the band's set list had so many Irish Drinking Songs and so few of their own they couldn't rightfully use the name Wookiefoot during the Irish holiday. The project became official when the first M.E.S. album "Tower of Babel Falls" was released on St. Patrick's Day in 2007. The sound is complete with bag pipes & Uilleann Pipes (Patrick McCormick), violin, banjo, mandolin, and Bodrahn. Best if listened to with a frosty pint! 
ARTIST: Murphys Empty Shot
TITLE: The Halfs & The Half Nots
LABEL: Wookiefoot
GENRE: Folk
SOURCE: CD
ENCODER: Lame 3.98 -V0 --vbr-new
BITRATE: 241kbps avg
PLAYTIME: 0h  30min total
RELEASE DATE: 2012-03-16
RIP DATE: 2012-05-19
CATALOG: CD008

Track List:

1. The Molly Maguires              2:18
2. The Four Deadly Sins            2:42
3. The Halfs & The Half Nots       2:38
4. Rolling in the Rye Grass        1:35
5. The Night Pat Murphy Died       2:51
6. Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye         3:26
7. All Together (Pub Version)      3:19
8. The Irish Rover                 2:52
9. Tempall an Ghleanntain          1:51
10.The Company You Keep            0:37
11.McCormick Wants a Drink         1:52
12.The Parting Glass               1:51
13.Bugger Off                      2:20