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Never Tire Of The Road

from Another Dawn by Tempest

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NEVER TIRE OF THE ROAD (Irvine)
Andy Irvine wrote this song about Woody Guthrie

NEVER TIRE OF THE ROAD is a traveling song which Irvine wrote about Woody Guthrie. I was not directly influenced by Woody, but by the people who were influenced by him, like Bob Dylan and Andy Irvine, who was an Irish musician who grew up in Dublin trying to do an Oklahoma accent. I embrace the spirit of Woody; busking and traveling, learning to survive on your own terms playing music in pubs and on street corners. That was my reaql life education, bumming around playing music and moving from place to place. I went out with a buddy of mine in our mid teens, playing in the streets of Copenhagen then moving onto the British Isles and Ireland. Sleeping in barns and hitchhiking around all Summer. When it wasn’t too much fun being in Norway in the Winter, I moved on to Greece, and eventually the States when I was 21. There is something romantic about the lifestyle following in the footsteps of the same rambling spirit of hoboes of the past. I can say this as someone who has lived it and struggled with it. You forget the times you were hungry, sleeping in parks and getting arrested. You remember the romance of traveling around playing music and getting your education in the school of life. That whole spirit is a big part of who I am and I have a soft spot for it. Woody Guthrie was a giant when it came to influencing not only the working class but the country with the spirit that drove him around. He was a bit of a rouge and a very romantic figure. Never Tire is a good song to do live, it was a song that was not really meant for Tempest but I did the song acoustically with a couple of the guys on a radio show a few years ago. The whole band wanted to learn it so it made sense to add it in yet another organic way of coming up with songs for the album.

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from Another Dawn, released March 30, 2010

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