It was a far-fetched plan that English folk-rocker Mike Rosenberg devised five years ago when his quintet Passenger splintered after one critically acclaimed album, “Wicked Man’s Rest.”
“Plus, my manager at the time quit, my girlfriend and I broke up, and I had to leave my house,” says the singer-guitarist, who appears today in The City. “It was just one of those bleak moments in life where everything around you just collapses, you know?”
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For seven years, Irish singer Lisa Hannigan remained in the backing-vocalist shadows cast by her platinum-selling employer, folksinger Damien Rice.
In 2008, she finally stepped into the spotlight with her Mercury Prize-nominated debut “Sea Sew,” which revealed her lovably eccentric personality in the CD art alone — an elaborate patchwork quilt of needlepoint dice she made herself.
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