TRANSLATION: The Donegal X-Press: the Sound of Baltimore is Celtic (Track 15) The Donegal X-Press combine the style of Irish music with the supreme London Calling of the Clash and the unrest of the Pogues; a music that we imagine listened to from cow-boy dreaming, but with the explicit lyrics of your sons. Their version of Tell Me Ma, that we present to you here [on the compilation CD], the confirmation, capturing brilliant reflections of the Irish style and leaving annoyed more of a native of Ireland: "[who] think that we are disrespectful" says Jason Tinney, harmonica player and leader of the band with Brad Dunnells, who believes that "to be Irish-American is not to be Irish enough for the most traditional listeners". But the Donegal X-Press wants more: to make music theatrical. And Irish music lends itself to being theatrical, because most of the time, in the traditional Irish songs, the story is disproportionate: "[it] is always larger than life," adds Dunnells. Quinn' s Diaries, released in 2000, is the CD from which the piece in [our] compilation is taken, and offers the best Celtic Irish-American [sound], beat poetry and rock' n' roll bravado with the right enthusiasm, joined together with arrangements of rockabilly [and] traditional pieces. You will be able to ask for it on their web site together with the their new work: Stand Alone. At the moment the band has taken a break from performing live, but will return to the stage starting on the 12 of March [2005], unfortunately only in the United States.