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Chris Bathgate

Chris Bathgate

Serious and mysterious

by Stephanie Kadel-Taras

posted 4/17/2009

“I blame Bob Dylan for records like this.” That’s what my friend, Steve, said to me as we listened to Chris Bathgate’s A Cork Tale Wake, released last year. Steve was referring to the inscrutable lyrics on top of pained melodies. And, alas, I had to agree. Bathgate is a talented folk song writer, and his liquid, unstylized voice is soothing. But if he is

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