Artist Loretta Murphy is a singer/songwriter, author, and actress whose song lyrics often spring from her strories, poems and other ramblings.

Her Irish and coal region roots have long inspired her storytelling. Murphy's Irish ancestors, The Carrolls, are known for their poetic abilities and her Staunton side, for it's music.

As THE TROUBLES, Murphy and guitarist/songwriter Paul Noon (aka King of the Strings, aka Bozo), perform originals along with traditional Irish, folk, coal region, bluegrass, blues, and vintage rock. The duo is based in the hard coal regions of Pennsylvania, where Irish ancestry is deep and it's cultural influence strong.

But since we are a very portable acoustic act, we travel well and are currently booking venues n Ireland and other ports of call ... contact Noonie via our website at thetroubles55.webs.com

She has a published novel, The Pipes Are Calling (2006), ISBN #142414826X, and a volume of poetry, Irish Roads (2008), ISBN # 1606107607. Visit http://www.freewebs.com/lorettamurphy

Murphy also has a 13 member Coal Region webring that promotes the Coal Cracker history, lifestyle, and culture - visit http://www.freewebs.com/coalregion

'Tween the Hedgerows
Irish contemporary with a twist of bluegrass



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THE TROUBLES completed the final tracks on their first, all original CD over the summer.

MINING THE BOGS represents stories of our shared heritage on both sides of the Atlantic bridge - and an ever present longing to return to our roots. The CD is a mix of Irish coal cracker, traditional Irish, and influenced by vintage rock, the blues, bluegrass, and folk.

Whether minin' the turf (called "country coal" when cut into bricks from the rich Irish bogs) or the hard chunks of "black diamonds" from the world famous Pennsylvania northeast anthracite veins, MINING THE BOGS is a glimpse of trials and troubles, hopes and dreams of the immigrant Irish - then and now.


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