Eleven Songs Luka Bloom

• 1 There Is a Time 04:20
• 2 I'm on Your Side 03:31
• 3 I Hear Her, Like Lorelei 03:58
• 4 I Love the World I'm In 04:42
• 5 Sunday 03:15
• 6 Fire 03:43
• 7 When Your Love Comes 06:08
• 8 See You Soon 04:06
• 9 Eastbound Train 04:26
• 10 Everyman 04:21
• 11 Don't Be Afraid of the Light That Shines Within You 04:45
• Total Runtime 47:15

Info for Eleven Songs

Singer-songwriter Luka Bloom twelfth album, Eleven Songs, on October 10th 2008 on Big Sky Records. The album will be preceded by the lead radio single, ‘I’m On Your Side’.

Returning to the raw live sound of his earlier records and brimming with inspiring lyrics and sumptuous melodies, Eleven Songs reminds us why Bloom is such a master of the concert stage. The album was co-produced by Luka and David Odlum (ex-Kila and ex-The Frames) and recorded in Grouse Lodge in County Westmeath.

Musicians on the album include Dave Hingerty (ex-The Frames), Trevor Hutchinson, Liam O’Maonlai (ex-Hothouse Flowers), Paul Smith, Cora Venus Lunny, Ken Edge, and the Gardiner St. Gospel Choir. Backing vocals are Sinead Martin and Robbie Moore.

Like many Irish families Luka Bloom comes from a family of singers and songwriters and first went on tour many moons ago with older brother Christy Moore. In 1987 Luka went to the US and toured with The Pogues, The Violent Femmes, Hothouse Flowers and The Cowboy Junkies, and in all has now enjoyed eighteen years of successful worldwide tours.

In 1990, Luka was signed to Warner Music in LA and over the next four years recorded three albums for them. Luka has released a further seven albums on his own label, Big Sky Records.

Over the years Luka has brought his songs to clubs, theatres, festivals, bars and arenas all over the world. In the last 10 years he has concentrated in performing in Australia, Holland, Belgium and Germany. His incredibly gifted electro-acoustic guitar playing guarantees an impassioned live performance of his original, poetic and melodic songs.

With “Eleven Songs”, Luka Bloom redefines himself as one of the world’s best songwriters and with his talent and experience, he knows what he can and can’t do. Luka Bloom is at the top of his genre and I don’t see anyone that can come really close to him at the moment.

Luka Bloom, vocals, electro-acoustic and spanish guitars
Trevor Hutchinson, bass
Dave Hingerty, drums and percussion
Liam Ó’Maonlai, piano (tracks 4, 7 ,9 and 11; and harp on ‘Everyman’)
Paul Smith, piano (tracks 1, 5, 8 and 10)
David Odlum, electric guitar
Joshua Grange, pedal steel (‘I’m On Your Side’)
Cora Venus Lunny, violin 1
Jenny Burns, violin 2
Niamh Nelson, viola
Gerald Peregrine, cello
Sinead Martin, backing vocals (tracks 2, 3 and 4)
Robbie Moore, backing vocals (tracks 4 and 6)
Aoife Tunney and Liam Ó’Maonlai, backing vocals on ‘Everyman’
Members of Gardiner Street Gospel Choir (tracks 7, 9 and 11)
Kenneth Edge, soprano sax and clarinet
Conor Byrne, flute

Luka Bloom
In 1972 Barry Moore wrote a song called WAVE UP TO THE SHORE. Not his first song, but it had something. He did some gigs, wrote some songs; and in 1987 he boarded a plane for New York, and Luka Bloom was born. Riverside was released in 1990 on REPRISE Records and it was followed by THE ACOUSTIC MOTORBIKE, AND TURF.

During the early 1990s the life of writing, recording and touring took off. The US, Australia, Germany, Holland, Belgium, Switzerland, and The UK are frequent destinations for Luka’s songs. As well as his own touring, he has performed at some of the great festivals: Pinkpop (Holland); Roskilde (Denmark), Torhout\Werchter (Belgium), Newport Folk Festival (US) Byron Blues Festival(Australia), Glastonbury and Cambridge, (UK). And most of all, he regularly sings all over the island of Ireland, where he lives in County Clare.

This album contains no booklet.