Biography
Janet Holmes, the singer from Belfast, launched her career as a teenager during the 1980s by joining SOS for the recording of a single. An EP followed in the early 1990s through her work in the acoustic duo Bare Bones, and she later performed with Bird-Dog in the late 1990s, a band fusing bluegrass, traditional Irish music, and swing jazz that issued the album Traditional Roots. Her debut solo release, 2004’s The Road to the West, adopted a singer/songwriter rock direction that frequently but not exclusively favored folk-rock settings. Almost every song, however, consisted of covers drawn from other writers, among them Bert Jansch, Lyle Lovett, Terry Woods, Paul Carrack, Isaac Guillory, and her occasional guitarist Colin Harper.
Albums