March 15 — Independent rock band Joetown got an early start to this year’s St. Patrick’s Day celebrations Tuesday with the release of a new single and video.
The band debuted its new single, ‘Irish Blessing‘ and the song’s companion video Tuesday. The new single takes the band’s familiar use of the bagpipes and pairs it with a hard rock classic rock style composition for a whole that is is uniquely engaging and entertaining from its opening bars to its end.
Band namesake Joe Delaney said the band’s new song is a tribute to his father.
“It’s emotional,” Delaney said, “The Irish Blessing poem still hangs over our door where my Dad placed it years ago. Those words have always meant so much to me and even more so now in this tune.”
The video that accompanies the band’s new single features footage of the band performing at a series of parades in 2022, according to a news release announcing the premiere of the new single and video. The document does not specify which parades are featured in the video.
The band’s new, original song is just the latest from the band this month. Early this month, Joetown debuted its cover of AC/DC’s classic song, ‘It’s A Long Way To The Top (If You Wanna Rock n’ Roll).’
The group’s take on the classic stays very true to its source material, from the guitars and bass right down to the specific straight forward 4/4 drum line and the gritty vocal delivery.
The video that accompanies the song features footage of the band performing at a pair of parades in New England in 2022. One of the parades is the St. Patrick’s Day parade in New Haven CT. The other is the parade celebrating the 350th anniversary of Wallingford CT.
Joetown’s take on the song and its video have proven so successful that AC/DC’s original manager, Michael Browning, and drummer Chris Slade applauded them.
Said Browning, “Good to see this band called Joetown, from another generation and continent, do a very authentic and respectful retake of the iconic AC/DC video that I was involved in ‘Long Way To The Top’”.
Slade, who previously played drums for AC/DC said simply, “Great Pipes!”
In related news, Joetown is scheduled to take part in this year’s St. Patrick’s Day parades March 11 and 12 in Hartford and New Haven, CT respectively. The band has a hometown show scheduled to take place March 17 in Wallingford, CT.
More information on Joetown’s new single and video is available along with all of the band’s latest news at:
Website: https://joetown.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JOETOWNBAND
Twitter: https://twitter.com/JoetownStudios
