Junior Brother recently played 3 songs for The Influences. His own Take Guilt from The End, Kate Bush’s Cloudbusting, and Richard & Linda Thompson’s The End Of The Rainbow.

Via The Influences: I caught this magical moment in Dublin on the way to the airport after an incredible weekend at Kilkenny Roots. There’s something special about capturing music in these unguarded moments – raw, intimate, and pure. As if I just wandered into the place where Ronan Kealy happened to be playing music like he always does.

I did a cover of Kate Bush’s Cloudbusting – One of me favourite songs, on one of me favourite pianos, filmed for the great Influences channel. Watch below….

“@rthompsonmusic is one of the best songwriters ever. He’s just incredible. And you can also tell that he’s soaked in folk music. He’s soaked in such old styles of music and it all just leads into his writing style to the point where a song like ‘The End of the Rainbow’ could have been written in any century, probably in the last five or six hundred years. So it has that timeless quality to it as well.”

But it’s the song’s emotional depth that really draws him in: “It plumbs such dark, dark depths that the first time I heard it I didn’t even really spot just how dark the song is. And I think that’s because it has that timeless quality. When you look at the lyrics, it’s the most depressing thing that I’ve ever read. But you put it to music then and it just sounds classic and timeless. ‘The End of the Rainbow’ has that for me. It’s one of the best songs ever written. It’s a perfect song and it’s just so incredibly depressive that it’s also quite uplifting, I think.”