Here at Diverse Records, as well as releasing albums by established international acts (Alison Krauss, Richard Thompson, Joan Baez) we like to put out LPs by artists we love and introduce them to a wider vinyl audience (Dolly Varden, Richmond Fontaine, The Duke & The King). Next up in that list is Irish singer-songwriter Fionn Regan. It's been an interesting couple of years for Fionn Regan. Never one to take the easy route, Fionn could easily have made a safe and predictable follow-up to "The End Of History", his 2007 Mercury-nominated and critically lauded debut. He could have simply recorded another collection of beguiling acoustic beauties.
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