It Must be Near St. Patrick’s Day
- “Danny Boy” is Darrell Scott’s latest “It Must be Sunday” offering
When music lands in that space between melancholic and mood-lifting, music is at its best.
Darrell Scott found the sweet spot Oct. 5, 2025, in Vermont with his instrumental arrangement of “Danny Boy,” out as the St. Patrick’s Day-minus-two edition of his ongoing “It Must be Sunday” video series.
Playing electric guitar and accompanied by Matt Flinner’s mandolin and John Mailander’s violin, Scott keeps things languid and tender as he and his compatriots hand off low-key solos smoothly with a glance.
This is a deliberate piece of music, each musician aware of his respective role in lead and support capacities and committed to threading the needle between a lump in the throat and a smile on the face. In more than 100 years, “Danny Boy” has never sounded quite like this; Scott in his genius has come up with an arrangement that deserves to be preserved and interpreted by others.
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