The job of songs

[Mr.Gumby]

Should be of some interest. The documentary has been around for a bit (I missed a screening in Kilkee a year ago) but it seems to be getting more exposure at the moment. A lot of the usual suspects:

The job of songs

Lila Schmitz’s documentary offers a candid look at Irish music and community struggles in a small Irish village known for its bar-room sessions

Lila Schmitz’s film diligently unpicks a paradox at the heart of Doolin’s musical continuum: that it both fends off and nourishes an endemic black dog.

The job of songs : review

[Nanohedron]

Thanks for this. I like how it touches - more like inspects, actually - more on the community and its individuals, and what the music expresses of them. To me this has always been the heart of the matter: I can communicate, through the music, what I otherwise have no voice for.

Never knew the metaphor of the "black dog" until now. You learn something new every day.

[Mr.Gumby]

Never knew the metaphor of the "black dog" until now

Samuel Johnson:

When I rise my breakfast is solitary, the black dog waits to share it, from breakfast to dinner he continues barking...