Amelia Curran & Duane Andrews - Dark River

From the album Sonny Don't Go Away - A Tribute to Ron Hynes
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Produced by Alan Doyle and Cory Tetford
Available October 20, 2023

'Dark River' written by Ron Hynes & Joel Thomas Hynes
Video directed & edited by Cecil Johnson
Audio by Don Ellis
Special thanks to Justin Fong & the staff at Quidi Vidi Brewing
Video production was supported by a grant from MusicNL & the government of Newfoundland and Labrador.

From Amelia Curran: “I’ve said this before but it’s always noteworthy. The thing about Ron Hynes, is that he was around. In the late 1990s you could find me working the door at the Ship Inn or the Rose & Thistle in downtown St. John’s. Ron would play fairly often then. And there wouldn’t be a guest list, but he’d call out from the stage every so often, “she can come in, let him in, she’s good, he’s alright”, etc. Owning the room. And everyone knew every word and I never gave that a second thought at the time. Cover was five dollars. Cash and coins in a french fry basket. And at the last song I’d weave my way through the dark little Ship Inn dance floor and stash the lot in the kitchen behind the bar. And later, after hours, I was allowed to hang around. We smoked cigarettes, and I played songs. I was twenty. Maybe nineteen. I could count my original compositions on one hand and he gave me room to play them all. It’s all I’ve been doing since."

From Duane Andrews: "It feels like as time continues to pass we’ll keep realizing more and more how infinitely great Ron is. I love hearing one of his songs out in the wild and still get more from them every time I hear one."