James Keelaghan

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Comment by Tidewater Friends of Folk Music on February 18, 2010 at 8:41am

James Keelaghan is that rare modern songwriter whose songs are better known than he is. For better or worse, the folk world these days is largely peopled with artists who sing only their own songs. But his career was launched in the mid-'80s, when Canadian folk-pop star Garnet Rogers recorded his achingly sweet Celticesque ballad, "Jenny Bryce," and then took the Alberta-born Keelaghan on tour with him throughout the States.