{"id":596,"date":"2012-08-14T02:04:02","date_gmt":"2012-08-14T02:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/news\/?p=596"},"modified":"2012-08-14T02:04:02","modified_gmt":"2012-08-14T02:04:02","slug":"maria-doyle-kennedy-damien-rice-sing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/news\/596\/maria-doyle-kennedy-damien-rice-sing\/","title":{"rendered":"Maria Doyle Kennedy, Damien Rice: Sing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-597\" title=\"Marie Doyle Kennedy Damien Rice Sing\" src=\"http:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Marie-Doyle-Kennedy-Damien-Rice-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Marie Doyle Kennedy Damien Rice Sing\" width=\"270\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Marie-Doyle-Kennedy-Damien-Rice-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Marie-Doyle-Kennedy-Damien-Rice-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Marie-Doyle-Kennedy-Damien-Rice.jpeg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 270px) 100vw, 270px\" \/>Save for last fall&#8217;s impressive U2 cover and promising new tunes popping up <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/2011\/04\/damien-rice-wild-and-free-new-song-live\/\" target=\"_blank\">in early live form<\/a>, we&#8217;ve been hearing a lot more official music from Damien Rice&#8217;s former partner <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/2011\/11\/video-lisa-hannigan-passenger-southern-souls\/\" target=\"_blank\">Lisa Hannigan<\/a> than the man himself of late.<!--more--> Rice has kept very busy, though, staying on the live circuit and duetting with a number of artists in the meantime, such as last year&#8217;s collaborative LP <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/2011\/03\/melanie-laurent-enlists-damien-rice-for-debut-album\/\" target=\"_blank\">with actress M\u00e9lanie Laurent<\/a>. Now he&#8217;s lent his voice for another actress-songwriter&#8217;s single: &#8220;Sing,&#8221; the title track to Maria Doyle Kennedy&#8217;s new album feature Rice on guest vox and a timeless melody we&#8217;ve been humming around here ever since the song dropped late last week.<\/p>\n<p>The set arrives in full later this month in Ireland, followed by the UK in September. Here&#8217;s hoping it hits the States soon, though, as this is one of the more uplifting singer-songwriter cuts to reach these ears in months. Check it out below:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DBCGUAg8dlI?wmode=transparent&amp;autohide=1&amp;egm=0&amp;hd=1&amp;iv_load_policy=3&amp;modestbranding=1&amp;rel=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;showsearch=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"540\" height=\"420\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Save for last fall&#8217;s impressive U2 cover and promising new tunes popping up in early live form, we&#8217;ve been hearing a lot more official music from Damien Rice&#8217;s former partner Lisa Hannigan than the man himself of late.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=596"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":600,"href":"https:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596\/revisions\/600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}