Shaun's story (and his father's) on new DVD

THE story of singer Shaun Loughrey's recent career in Country music as well as a shorter story about his late father, Johnny Loughrey's success on the music scene, are well documented on a new double DVD titled Shaun Loughrey â€â€œ A Musical Journey. Sadly his singing father, and his mother Mary, a native of Irishtown, passed away a few years ago within a few weeks of each other and at relatively young ages. While there was probably very little video footage of Johnny's performances from his years on the dancing scene, I seem to remember only one video, the producers of this DVD have managed to find five previously unreleased songs which are now on one of the discs in this set. Johnny was filmed singing the songs at scenic locations around Ireland some years before he died and he is in fine singing voice on all of them. The video of Shaun shows him on stage with his band, and the Benn Sister, Carrie and Leanne are doing backing vocals. There is also an interview with him in which this former engineer from Manchester talks about how he only started singing after both his parents died within a few weeks of each other. He tells the story about how he had to convince his two sisters that he could sing, by going to their houses and performing, before they would believe him. He shares lots of memories with the viewers regarding his father and the type of singer and family man that he was and indeed Shaun becomes emotional during one part of this interview which results in some editing before he regains his composure and continues to discuss those memories. One of the songs that he sings, The Rock and the Pillar was written for Shaun about his parents by another musician, Marty Pollock, who worked in Johnny Loughrey's band for many years. Other live tracks include The Galway Girl, Galway Bay, featuring some nice footage of the sun going down over the bay, Before the Next Teardrop Falls and the lively Country song Say It Again. The sound quality and picture quality from the live show is very good, and while most of the scenes shot on location are excellent there are one or two instances where the camera crew try to merge one picture of the artist into another, which doesn't really work. But apart from those few instances this is a nice production and one that is sure to be a hit with fans of both Shaun Loughrey and his late father Johnny.