Sharon Shannon

I freely admit it was the sound of Sharon Shannon that made me want to be a squeezebox player. That was fifteen years ago, and things didn't exactly turn out that way, in that the good woman plays the diatonic melodeon and I ended up playing the chromatic piano accordion, but I'm happy enough with my own style of playing.

Here's a recently uploaded live performance of the excellent 'Galway Girl' with Steve Earle crooning. A gentleman to the end, Mr Earle has always protected the eponymous lady's identity, and as her hair was black and her eyes were blue, we have to discount Shazza as a suspect. Enjoy