''To the Light'' is an album by Irish folk singer
Johnny Duhan
Johnny Duhan (born 30 March 1950) started his career as the 15-year-old frontman of the Ireland, Irish Beat music, beat group Granny's Intentions. After success in Limerick and Dublin, the band moved to London and was signed to the Deram Recor ...
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''To the Light'' charts Duhan's years on the road with bands in the sixties and seventies, tilting for fame and the girl. Its tone and rhythm come from the radios, jukeboxes, cafes, bars, dance-halls and nightclubs of the time it sings of. It is not a success story; numerous failures and heartaches are encountered on the road. One of a score of managers who quit working with Duhan out of a sense of frustration (Terry O’Neill) told Duhan that he was the only person he'd encountered in a long career in the music business with “a will to fail”. Duhan doesn't believe that this is quite true, but his uncompromising attitude to his work down the years has no doubt contributed to keeping marketplace success from his door. Though Duhan never quite makes “the big time” he eventually finds the girl and experience a moment of transcendence - illustrated in the song "To the Light" - that convinces him of the truth of a newspaper quotation that he once jotted into his song journal: “We Irish are suspicious of success knowing that there is a lot more of the infinite in its opposite.”
Track listing
# "Don Quixote"
# "My Gravity"
# "The Beggar"
# "The Night You Left Me"
# "Our Last Drive"
# "There Is A Girl"
# "There Is A Time"
# "Don't Give Up Till It's Over"
# "The Room"
# "I'm Lucky I Had You"
# "Girls In My Memory"
# "Molly"
# "All I Need"
# "The Spider"
# "To The Light"
External links
Homepage
2008 albums
Johnny Duhan albums
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