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Kieran Goss performing "Reasons To Leave"

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"Reasons To Leave"

Ireland's a dream

Of hope for what the day will bring

The land and the sea

Is what I've come to trust

All that I am

Is telling me I should not go

And all that I know

Is they're telling me I must

Reasons to leave

Are money and finding better work

Reasons to stay

Are music and love

Reasons to leave

Are fortune and fame for what it's worth

The reason to stay

Is heaven on earth

My brothers are ten

And sisters I have five

Four to one bed

Is room enough to grow

All that we are

Is all that I have ever known

And all that I have

Will be here when I'm gone

I've heard about work up in Boston

Laying tracks down to San Augustine

Sometimes with an eye for New Zealand

Kieran Goss was born and raised in County Down, Northern Ireland. He was just nine years old when he got his first guitar. Growing up in a big family with diverse musical tastes meant that early on he was hearing the music of Johnny Cash, Kris Kristofferson, Willie Nelson, Frank Sinatra and The Rolling Stones. These varied influences fermented into the brew that gives Kieran his own unique sound.

Kieran supported himself while a law student in Belfast by playing club gigs and the University Students Union, earning himself support slots for Elvis Costello, Christy Moore and Joe Jackson along the way. After qualifying as a lawyer in the mid-eighties, Kieran left home for France and Germany in order to avoid being drafted into the legal profession! He came back home to Ireland in 1989 to record his first album, Brand New Star. It contained the songs Brand New Star and Just Around The Corner, which came to the attention of Mary Black. She recorded both songs for her album, Babes In The Wood.

Kieran followed up Brand New Star with New Day in 1994 and in 1998 he released the album Worse Than Pride, which contained the Top 10 single Out Of My Head. It was the second most played song on Irish radio that year. Worse Than Pride achieved double platinum status nine months after it was released. Red-Letter Day followed this in 2000, and contained the gem, Reasons To Leave.

In the winter of 2002, Kieran released the compilation, Out Of My Head... The Best Of Kieran Goss, which was intended to act as a resumé of his work up to that point and to give him a breather while he holed up to write. His sixth studio album, Blue Sky Sunrise, was recorded in Tennessee and produced by Rodney Crowell and Peter Coleman. It was released in September 2005, and the first single from it, Clear Day was an instant hit which was picked up by the Progressive Building Society for use in their television advertising campaign.

Kieran Goss Trio Live, Kieran's first live album, will be released in April 2008 and he is currently mixing his new studio album, I'll Be Seeing You, in Austin, TX. It is scheduled for release in Summer 2008 and Kieran will be touring in Ireland in October 2008 to support it.