Tomorrow (Tuesday, March 4) is release day for the new Black 47 album, Iraq. The band chose the C&L Music Club to debut a song they wrote about someone we know well, Cindy Sheehan. Generally categorized as Celtic rock, they are all Irish expats living in New York City, where they started the band in 1989. Counting Iraq they've had a dozen album. They've been on tour all year and are on their way to the West Coast right now with concerts coming up in Santa Cruz, San Francisco, Sonora (at the Sonora Celtic Faire) and then on to the Midwest for a string of shows in Columbus, Palatine, Illinois, Cleveland, Pittsburgh...
I bet they'll be doing "Ballad of Cindy Sheehan." They picked it for us tonight: