El Barril de Brandy

Closing Neil Cabana's The Mountmellick record is Robbie O’Connell’s “The Keg of Brandy,” Neil pays homage to his Irish roots and the long lineage of folk storytellers. It’s a song about memory and the rituals that survive us - shared drinks, shared losses, shared songs. As a final track, it leaves us at the firelight’s edge, just beyond the last note.