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SUMMARY:Seán Griffin
DESCRIPTION:Seán Griffin is a veteran Northeast rocker who has fronted the
  Irish punk band The Ruffians for 25 years.\n\nBorn into a large family in
  Danbury\, Connecticut\, Griffin was steeped in Irish traditional music v
 ia his barbershop quartet-singer father and his accordionist/step-dancer m
 other. But he wasn’t motivated to make music himself until he discovere
 d punk and alternative rock as a teenager\; in college\, he formed the Br
 it pop-styled Svelte\, which recorded one album in the early 1990s.\n\nTh
 e Pogues were a pivotal influence\, inspiring Sean to form The Ruffians
  in 1998\, not long after he’d moved to New York. Crossing Irish folk 
 styles with punk and contemporary Brit-pop\, the hard-gigging band release
 d three well-received albums and an EP and performed with luminaries like
  Shane McGowan and the Popes\, Black 47\, Enter the Haggis\, and Gaelic S
 torm.\n\nWhen it came time to cut the dusty diamonds sitting on his song s
 helf that didn’t quite fit The Ruffians’ repertoire\, along with a wh
 ole chest of newer gems\, Griffin went straight to Old Soul Studios in Ca
 tskill\, New York\, to work with Grammy award-winning producer Kenny Siege
 l  (Langhorne Slim\, New Pornographers\, Low Cut Connie) and engineer Mat
 thew Cullen (Sean Lennon\, Black Lips\, My Morning Jacket). And the resul
 ts of the sessions\, which mix ageless acoustic instruments with amped-up
  electric punk rock and melodic balladry\, are nothing short of sublime. 
 The album was mixed by Paul Kolderie and mastered by Greg Calbi.\n\n“Ba
 ck in the ’90s\, Sean and The Ruffians were a glory to behold — a soup
 ed-up Celtic Oasis teetering on the edge\,” says Black 47’s Larry Kirw
 an\, the host of SiriusXM’s “Celtic Crush.” “But now Sean is back
 \, a mellower\, more thoughtful man with a batch of new songs and the same
  impressive voice. He almost sounds like a 21st-century Joe Jackson\, dis
 playing a new maturity. Gratefully\, his trademark humor and sense of fun 
 are still to be found.” “For me\, the songs always come first\,” say
 s Griffin\, who plans club and festival dates in North America\, the U.K.\
 , and Europe to support the 2024 release. “I just want to keep the story
 telling tradition that I come from alive through my songs\, and for the pe
 ople who hear them to get some of the same excitement and joy that I get f
 rom playing them.”
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