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John Doyle
Origin	Dublin, Ireland
Genres	traditional Irish
Occupation(s)	Musician, songwriter
Instrument(s)	guitar, bouzouki, tenor banjo
Years active	1990–present
Website	www.johndoylemusic.com

John Doyle (born in 1971) is an Irish folk musician, singer-songwriter, producer, and a founding member of Solas and Usher's Island. He is also a member of the Transatlantic Sessions house band associated with the Celtic Connections music festival. He plays guitar, fiddle, Irish bouzouki, tenor banjo.

Early years

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Career

He is now an active solo artist, who frequently tours and plays with other acclaimed musicians, including: Eileen Ivers, Colin Farrell, Mike McGoldrick and John McCusker. He is currently a member of Usher's Island with Paddy Glackin, Donal Lunny, Andy Irvine and Mike McGoldrick. He has written many traditional-style songs and has collaborated with Kate Rusby, Susan McKeown, Karan Casey and Heidi Talbot.

Doyle also has producing credits on several albums including Heidi Talbot's debut solo release Distant Future, renowned American fiddle player Liz Carroll's Lake Effect, and his father Sean Doyle's CD, The Light and the Half Light.

Doyle is a guitarist with a trademark style for backing up other musicians. A left-handed player, his style involves the use of bass string damping with the heel of the left hand combined with a constant, metronome-like strumming pattern and nimble movement up and down the neck with the right hand to incorporate bass lines and chordal variations. Combined with other dynamic techniques such as string choking with the right hand, the resulting sound is full and highly rhythmical.

Doyle plays guitar in many different tunings, but is perhaps best known for using the 'Dropped D' tuning (DADGBE) for backing up other musicians.

Selected discography

Solo

• Evening Comes Early (Shanachie, 2001)
• Wayward Son (Compass, 2005)
• Shadow and Light, (Compass, 2011)

With Solas

• Solas (Shanachie Records, 1996)
• Sunny Spells and Scattered Showers (Shanachie, 1997)
• The Words That Remain (Shanachie, 1998)
• The Hour Before Dawn (Shanachie, 2000)
• Reunion - A Decade Of Solas (Compass, 2006)

With Transatlantic Session

• Transatlantic Sessions 5 (Whirlie, 2011)
• Transatlantic Sessions 6 (Whirlie, 2013)

With Usher's Island

• Usher's Island (Vertical, 2017)

With Eileen Ivers

• Eileen Ivers (Green Linnet, 1991)
• Wild Blue (Green Linnet, 1994)
• Crossing the Bridge (Sony Classics, 1997)
• Emigrant Soul (Koch/Musical Bridge, 2003)

With Mick Moloney

• Three Way Street (Green Linnet, 1993) - With Seamus Egan and Eugene O’Donnell
• Far From the Shamrock Shore (Shanachie, 2002)
• If It Wasn't For The Irish And The Jews (Compass, 2007)

With Karan Casey

• Songlines (Shanachie, 1997)
• The Winds Begin to Sing (Shanachie, 2001)
• Exiles Return (Compass, 2010)

With Liz Carroll

• Lost in the Loop (Green Linnet, 1999)
• Lake Effect (Green Linnet, 2002)
• In Play (Compass, 2005)
• Double Play (Compass, 2009)

With Cathie Ryan

• Somewhere Along the Road (Shanachie, 2001)
• The Farthest Wave (Shanachie, 2005)

With Kate Busby

• Little Lights (Pure, 2002)
• 10 (Pure, 2002)

With Tim O’Brien

• Traveler (Sugar Hill, 2003)
• Fiddler’s Green (Howdy Skies Music, 2005)
• Cornbread Nation (Howdy Skies Music, 2005)

With Alison Brown

• Stolen Moments (Compass, 2005)
• The Company You Keep (Compass, 2008)
• The Song Of The Banjo (Compass, 2005)

With Michael McGoldrick & John McCusker

• McGoldrick, McCusker, Doyle - Live (Vertical, 2012)
• The Wishing Tree (Under One Sky, 2018)

With The Alt

• The Alt (Under The Arch, 2014)

Compilations

• Irish Guitar Masters (Shanachie, 2005)

With others

• James Keane: That’s the Spirit (Green Linnet, 1994)
• Seamus Egan: When Juniper Sleeps (Shanachie, 1996)
• Cathal McConnell: Long Expectant Comes at Last (Compass, 2000)
• Joe McKenna: The Irish Whistle (Shanachie, 2001)
• James Leva: Memory Theatre (Copper Creek, 2001)
• Niall & Cillian Vallely: Callan Bridge (Compass, 2002)
• Brian Conway: First Through the Gate (Smithsonian, 2002)
• John McCusker: Goodnight Ginger (Compass, 2003)
• Tommy Peoples: Waiting for a Call (Shanachie, 2003)
• Gibb Todd: Goin' Home (Compass, 2004)
• Julie Fowlis: Mar A Tha Mo Chridhe (Macmeanmna, 2005)

Produced by John Doyle

• Liz Carroll: Lake Effect (Green Linnet, 2002)
• Heidi Talbot: Distant Future (Compass, 2004)
• Sean Doyle: The Light and the Half-Light (Compass, 2004)
• Michael Black: Michael Black (Compass, 2007)
• The Alt: The Alt (Under The Arch, 2014)
• Tellico: Woven Waters (Organic, 2018)

Film and theatre soundtracks

• Out of Ireland - Soundtrack to the PBS documentary, (Shanachie, 1995) Allmusic source with credit for Doyle on guitar
• The Brothers McMullen Allmusic source with credit for Doyle on guitar
• In Uncle Robert’s Footsteps (IFTN source for In Uncle Robert’s Footsteps)
• Down the Flats (NYT Review of Down the Flats)

Filmography

• Irish Rhythm Guitar: Accompanying Celtic Tunes (Homespun, 2000), DVD - With John Williams
• The Transatlantic Sessions Series 5 (Whirlie, 2011), DVD
• The Transatlantic Sessions Series 6 (Whirlie, 2014), DVD

External links

• "fRroots Reviews Index: 'D': Doyle, John", frootsmag.com, Folk Roots magazine website