Ron Ireland

Ron Ireland is a singer-songwriter from Virginia. He was a shy and lonely kid until he found an old Silvertone guitar with three strings and taught himself to play. He started writing songs in the late 1960s, but the necessities of life interrupted his music until 2007, when he picked up his resonator guitar and started writing and performing again. Ron's voice is a gentle, time-worn instrument, with hope and cynicism coexisting in every note . He is also a fine fingerpicking-style guitarist with a wide musical range. An admirer of the guitar style John Fahey called "American Primitive", Ron calls his own style "American Clumsy." His lyrics are punctuated with literary references and jokes. His melodies and chord choices are beautiful, and often surprising. Ron says his songs feature “a touch of country, a little blues, a pinch of rockabilly, and some old fashioned finger picking folk songs.” (Member of BMI)

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I wrote this one a couple of years ago while remembering one of several trips to the south of Spain.

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All My Tears

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"I’m Rooting for Everybody Black"

Everybody Black is my hometown team. Everybody Black

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I forgive people but that doesn’t mean I accept their behavior or trust them again. I forgive them for me, so I can let go and move on with my life.

Unknown (via thoughtkick)

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(via https://open.spotify.com/track/50OKwHJtph5zNM0uJ8BGbC)

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Wisdom and love are often quiet. Deception puts on a big show.

Donald Miller (via alexjacobi)

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“i by to / ride all night if im to meet my pardners” -Ishmael Reed Good morning, internet XO, SPD

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The large majority of Americans expect black people to “pull themselves up by the boot straps,” and become “better people,” and that will amend poor black people’s economic status, the racial disparities, and the racial discrimination they face. Placing these incriminations on black people and not the systems that enslave, murder, and oppress black people, is criminal. It is also one of the many racist ideas that keep black people chained to an inferior status in this society.

from How a young boy has been decaying in Baltimore since age 10: A Death Note by Kondwani Fidel (via tracydimond)

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(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TB1q3--RPmU)

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“Shackles & Chains”  End prisons for profit. Now. 

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One of my favorite songs from the brilliant Bruce Cockburn.

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Take it. Pay for it, or don't, I'm okay with either choice. Burn a CD and leave it in a bus station.

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My Little World

(c) 2008 Ron Ireland

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"Poor Wayfaring Stranger" from a performance at the Blue Ridge Music Center, on a July Saturday of 2013.