GO JANE GO: Go Jane Go
GO JANE GO
Go Jane Go
Go Jane Go
Go Jane Go is Kieran Kane, David Francey and Kieran’s son Lucas Kane. Kieran and David are the songwriters writing eleven of the set’s thirteen songs either together or solo. The others are the traditional “Blue Ridge Cabin Home” and Little Walter’s “Tell Me Mama.” Kieran and David play guitars, and Kieran occasionally plays banjo. Lucas adds light percussion and some guitar. All three sing, with Kieran and David splitting the leads. Charmingly some of Francey’s lead vocals appear on songs Kieran wrote.
The music is really stripped down. All of it was recorded live, no overdubs anywhere. Go Jane Go is no exercise in high volume. It is a true living room album of intimate often hushed performances. Indeed the album is principally about Kieran and David’s song craft.
The partnership grew out of David Francey’s 2004 album The Waking Hour where he worked with Kieran Kane, Kevin Welch and Fats Kaplin. Francey is a true late bloomer as he made his debut album Torn Screen Door in 1999 when he was 45. Kieran Kane’s work extends back to the O’Kanes, the very popular ’80s duo with Jamie O’Hara and then through the Dead Reckoner consortium in the ’90s into the new millennium. Over the years his output has grown ever sparer, never more so than on Go Jane Go.
The album is a compact 36-minute program, and it just flies by. The three play together so effortlessly one cannot help slipping under the spell the album creates.
— Michael Tearson