“Simply a stunning debut, this is the kind of album that will never be last year’s model. Liz Carroll and Peter Ostroushko help create simple, beautiful arrangements for ten songs and two instrumentals featuring Sproule’s unparalleled voice and guitar.” -Steve Winick

I’d like to dedicate this album to my family: my father and mother Robert and Eilis Sproule, my brothers and sisters, Nuala, Christopher, Catherine, Gráinne-Maeve, Andrew and Eimear, Bridie McGuiness and Colm Carney.

Thanks to all the musicians I’ve performed with over the years, including: Shaun McAteer, Charlie Gallagher, Tommy Coyle, Micheál Ó Domhnaill, Maighréad and Tríona Ní Dhomhnaill, Jim McCloskey, James Kelly, Paddy O’Brien, Daithí Connaughton, Fintan Vallely, Sean Casey, Padraig Mac Mathúna, SeánÓ hilí, John Kelly, John McEvoy, Michael Gavin, Michael Hand, Sean O’Driscoll, John Anderson, Mary MacEachron O’Driscoll, Laura Mackenzie, Jamie Gans, Frankie Kennedy, Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh, Ciarán Curran, Ciarán Tourish, Paul O’Shaughnessey, Dermot Byrne, Ross Sutter, Dave Ray and the Volunteers of the Blue Knight, Martin McHugh, Peter Tritz, Martin and Christine Dowling, Séamus and Mánus McGuire, Tommy Peoples, Peter Ostroushko, Liz Carroll, Billy McComiskey.

Thanks also to Mairéad O’Reilly and Helen Bommarito.

-Dáithí Sproule