Check out this wonderful narrative from Irish singer Daniel James…..he explains the tune below:
“A Lonely Man” is based on parallel stories. One part expresses my own struggles with everyday life and another part expresses my imagination of what ‘struggling’ actually entails. Researching old reference books and documentaries, I focussed on the struggle of the slaves in chain gangs in America in the nineteenth century. I tried to harness old slave/gospel type vocal rhythms in the track to reflect the parallel story . “A Lonely Man” is a story of one man’s battle, both real and imagined.