TORONTO-BASED ROOTS ARTIST TERRY DONAGHUE IS LOOKING FOR REDEMPTION WITH A NEW FILM NOIR STYLED ALBUM AND VIDEO
Terry Donaghue is a Toronto-based singer/songwriter whose new release, Looking For Redemption is a concept album, a sequence of nine original songs in an Americana/roots/alt-folk style. Donaghue envisions each track as a scene from a film noir style movie about a man on the run from his past and a woman he meets along the way also on the run from her past, each searching for an elusive destination – a destination called Redemption.
Donaghue has been a fan of the film noir style since his youth, watching 1960s TV shows like Peter Gunn and Dragnet and movies such as The Maltese Falcon, Casablanca, and Double Indemnity. Detective stories by authors like Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, and Ross McDonald line his bookshelves.
Terry Donaghue began playing music in his teens in the ’60s first playing folk and bluegrass on the banjo in a couple of different groups in his hometown of Sault Ste Marie. Later he took up the guitar and more recently the mandolin. He has been writing songs for the past 20 years or so in a variety of styles: folk, bluegrass, roots rock, rockabilly, blues, R&B influenced, and reggae influenced. He is the founder of the Olde Stone Cottage Songwriters’ Circle and a member of the organizing group for the Dinner & A Song concert series.
For the past 19 years or so he has been playing guitar and mandolin in the band Vintage Debris, adding vocals as well. He has released three previous solo recordings of original material: Songs of Love and Longing in May 2020, Northern Reflections in January 2022, and Shades Of Blue in February 2023. Shades Of Blue was listed at #18 on Roots Music Report’s top classic blues album chart for the year 2023
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