Terry Woods
Terrence "Terry" Woods (born December 4, 1947 in Dublin ) is an Irish musician specializing in mandolin and tremors . Woods became known through his engagements in groups such as The Pogues , Steeleye Span , Sweeney's Men and Dr. Strangely Strange .
biography
Terry Woods learned to play the banjo at the age of 14 . In the early 1960s he and his future wife Gabriel "Gay" Corcoran founded the first music group called The Apprentice Folk , whose name they later shortened to The Prentice Folk .
Terry toured Ireland with Orphanage , a band that also featured Phil Lynott and Brian Downey , who later formed Thin Lizzy . In 1967 he replaced Joseph "Galway Joe" Dolan with Sweeney's Men , with whom he made two albums. In 1970 he and his wife, Gay Woods , married in 1968, were temporarily members of Steeleye Span and worked on their first album. Then they formed The Woods Band . Initially a group of a few musicians , Gay and Terry later only hired the musicians for certain albums or tours. They called themselves simply Gay & Terry Woods .
Terry and Gay divorced in 1980. Gay founded the Irish new wave group Auto Da Fé . Terry settled in Ireland with his new wife Marian and their two children. After almost five years of music hiatus, Frank Murray contacted him to promote the Pogues . After initial disagreements, Terry became an integral part of the band in 1985 and remained so for almost 10 years before he left the Pogues after the release of the album Waiting for Herb and founded the group The Bucks with Ron Kavana .
Ron and Terry had written pieces of music together before, including Young Ned of the Hill , which appeared on Pogues' 1989 album Peace and Love . Terry was part of Ron's charity album For the Children , on which numerous Irish musicians (including ex-Pogue Philip Chevron ) contributed. After the first album, Ron left The Bucks , but Terry continued to use the band name.
In 2001 Terry Woods began producing and touring with Dave Brown under the name The Woods Band (which he used with his wife in the early 1970s). Woods has also been touring regularly with the Pogues since 2001.
The music of the new Woods band is a mix of old and new Irish songs. The older material includes titles like The Irish Rover (The Pogues), Waxies Dargle (Sweeney's Men), Thousands Are Sailing (The Pogues), Finnegans Wake ( The Dubliners ) or The Spanish Lady , Diecey Riley and South Australia . Most of the newer material was written in a similar style by Terry.
Discography (albums)
Sweeney's Men
- 1968: Sweeney's Men (Transatlantic)
- 1969: The Tracks of Sweeney
Steeleye Span
- 1970: Hark! The Village Wait (Crest)
The Woods Band
- 1971: The Woods Band (Edsel)
- 2002: Music From The Four Corners Of Hell
Gay & Terry Woods
- 1975: Backwoods (Polydor)
- 1976: Renowned (Polydor)
- 1976: The Time is Right (Polydor)
- 1978: Tender Hooks (Rockburgh)
The Pogues
- 1988: If I Should Fall From Grace With God (Warner)
- 1989: Peace And Love (Warner)
- 1990: Hell's Ditch (Warner)
- 1993: Waiting for Herb (Warner)
Ron Kavana
- 1991: Home Fire (Green Linnet)
The Bucks
- 1994: Dancin 'To The Ceili Band (Warner)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Terry Woods . The Pogues. Retrieved July 20, 2011.
- ↑ http://www.huxrecords.com/bio8.htm
- ↑ http://www.pogues.com/PastPogues/TWoods/TWoods.html
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Woods, Terry |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Woods, Terrence |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Irish musician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 4th December 1947 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dublin , Ireland |