 That's class. That is Balai Shannon bass band The Kings of Kool and that's their latest release called A Shelter of Your Love and in touch with Michael Christie as the main man, singer-songwriter and producer, the main driving force and of course accompanied by Jason Kelly and Stephen Gallagher and they've been making good music, making good music for a few years now and we're delighted to hear that once well done indeed, fantastic song and we're looking forward to The Kings of Kool coming up some Monday night they were telling me so keep them coming into your cellar, we move on and we say hello to our second guest on the Monday night sessions and it's Jim Muller. Jim you're welcome back. Well how you doing? I'm good. How's things for you? I was just looking sorry before I interrupt you. That's 2019 the last time you're here so that's um that's four years ago yeah yeah that's hard to believe yeah it was uh I was here with another fella he played bass for me that time my fellow Martin Kelly hi he was with me he played bass I remember that all right Martin is right but you're on your own this time yeah so listen um he's been writing away and well he's been writing the odd song not that many but you know I do have songs that I didn't record you know yet I haven't recorded them yet but they're still there and just have to get around to doing it you know. Do you still write much Jim? Well the last song wrote was about a year and a half ago uh but a man from the In-Given who passed away a great musician he was so I just wrote a song with the story about you know my story does that just something that just comes along to you? Well I wrote that the day he died I just sat at the kitchen table and wrote the song and completed it in the one gold kind of thing. Well I started off as a poem because I hadn't got the music so once they got the poem down and the poem was read out at the funeral and then the poem was read out at the funeral yeah but that's very nice and the so then I just sat and just filtered the guitar to see if I get something out of my head and then it was nothing coming for a day or two and then all of a sudden it just clicked. Is that the way songwriting works for you Jim? Sometimes you know you can sit and filter the guitar and have a wee riff come along and then you have to ask nice one or but the thing about songwriting is if something comes out of your head if you don't get that wrote down right away it's gone and that happens to me all the time. What way do you do it and I ask all the songwriters this you know a lot of people use it you know oh I've got a gun to me phone or do this. I don't do anything if I'm going to pen and paper it's gone it's gone but I was getting a bit of slagging because like a lot of songs I write I'd write them maybe at work because that's where it's coming to me head and I just have to write it down and scrub it down as best I can and very good but if I don't do that it's gone you know. Where are you done giving or? I live just outside then giving and a park village if you know. A park and no park well. I know park well. Maybe I'll make a honey shop there isn't it? That's right. We built houses down there. I've got a state opposite house shop. That's about mulcite. About 40 years ago we built. I was born for it. Well it's mulcite I know we used to build down there. We've done the building down there for many years. We've got a crack down there we enjoyed it. See that. Good people. Well the first song jump. Well the first song I didn't know if I was going to do this song or not. Dream of you it's called. It's the songs been floating about in my head for years but I've never done anything with it. Right. So I'm going to give it a lash. Actually it's not I'm sort of saddened to hear the death of David Crosby. Yeah. The other day you know and this song came in my head not it's not about David Crosby. Were your Crosby still a nice fan? Big, big fan Crosby. Oh a big fan. I would do a couple of other songs. Teach your children and help with the hoping and something. Because I have a wee harmony pedal. So you can do the you can do the three parts harmony. Very good. Your own voice. Very good. Anyway that's what's called a dream view. I'll give it a lash. Brilliant. Lovely. Brilliant song. Well done. Love that song. The album last album you've done was five years ago. 17. 17 yet. Uh-huh. Are you ending in the pipeline or? Well not I'm thinking about it. Just I did go into the studio just at the start of the pandemic. Right. And I just couldn't get into it. Just wasn't working for me. Oh just leave it. So I just thought you have to be the right frame of mind for it. I'm getting there. I'm getting there. Well you know the thing about it is you're not under pressure so get there when it's. Oh that's it. Jim Mullers has to do with us here. A county dairy singer songwriter from Park actually and he's going to do another couple of tunes first but we're taking a quick ab break. Don't go away. I hear you some wire needs a fix it man. The name's Buzz on Academy Work. No chance. Not all cowboys ride horses. All safe electric registered electrical contractors must give you a certificate of completion that shows their work meets approved standards. Find one nearby on safeelectric.ie. Do you need a little extra help staying in your home? At Bluebird Care we offer a wide variety of Q mark approved personalised home care services across Dunnegall and are fully trained and committed staff will always meet your care needs with kindness compassion and dignity. 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I'm in studio with Jim Miller and we're just talking songs and writing stuff like that. Jim Giggs, are you writing about busy? I'm busy. I'm actually very busy. I wasn't busy at Christmas but I chose that myself. I like to sort of, it's the last few years I like to sort of take a wee step back at Christmas time just. And why not? You've been there and done that. Yeah I've been done that and it's sort of my hold as well. Of course. I hold it percent. But it's January started I've been really really busy. It's funny I don't know. Usually I sort of quiet once you remind me. It's actually very busy tomorrow then. That's good. I'll have two gigs to do this weekend so one one's a wee private party you know and then the other one's just a wee actually it's handy once we're bar and park. Right yeah and tell me this do you like to stay local when you're gigging or tea? I do prefer to stay as local as possible. Don't get me wrong I do go away. I've been playing 20 years at a festival in Scotland. I do go that every year. And if something came up I used to go away abroad fairly often and play abroad but sort of packed that in. But keep it local as possible because I do still work so you're getting up in the middle of the night to go to work. So you want to keep it as local as possible. It's worked so high I'm doing it the guts of 40 years now it's still going all right so. I want to say well listen long may continue but continue to on its own way. Jack Caramiller said ask Jim to play uh play Strong. What's that you mean Strong is it? Strong's a Nox. Yeah. I play my old friend for Siobhan Cassidy and Chloe Bradley. Well I can't do them all. No I can't do them all unfortunately we have a playlist here but thanks for getting in touch. You're more than welcome to get in touch. The next track Jim is a Frankie Muller classic. Frankie Muller song. I was playing in a bar in Swatra. I had Frills in Swatra and a fellow came up and handed me a CD but it was just a blank CD there was no I didn't know what was on it. So I didn't actually listen to it right away and the next time I was in this is did you listen to that CD as is no not yet so I did listen to it and it was grand but this one song stood out I had never heard it was Frankie Muller and he did write this song as well and he's no relation to me. People just associate Frankie with the one song. Yeah darling yeah there's a few good songs. He's not with us no more. No he's passed away. This one's called Bottle of Whiskey so I'll give it a laugh. I know this one's brilliant. I'll give this one to the Swatra crew. It's a great song. The lyrics are just fantastic. So whatever time I do record again I'll be. Brilliant and a lot of people as I say listen I don't know if somebody gave me an album of Frankie Muller's a couple of years back and they're passing remarks and they put it on and that's the only song stood out not for me. Just I was like oh my god and there's no big production on it. No no no it's rosby damned. It sounds like it sounds like it from somebody's drinking a bottle of whiskey. I've said that drink a few bottles all right. I would say he does but listen the plan's coming up now what's new songs or. Well just don't sit and write songs because I don't give the time but now and again something's down to your head and you can write it down and it happens sometimes you don't like it you know just. So whenever it comes along yeah I think that's a bit. Yeah it's just people want to get in touch with you. Are you on social media or anything like that. Yeah on Facebook page James Muller. James Muller music. James Muller music probably big into the Facebook page. I have people who do that for me. You're PAs and all. Yeah very good. Would you like to just sort of concentrate on the music do you think if the work give me such a way that you could say right to hell. I would probably yeah. What do you work at Joe. I do dry leaning. Oh just plant the boys up right in that area. Four Glen boys and all that. Probably a few of them listening here in the night. Definitely. A couple of John and Nichols nephews and working with a couple of them. There's Jerry O'Hara on there. The Jerry O'Hara. The Jerry O'Hara. That'd be the launch hour. That's right. That's four Glen. Dry leaning. It's a top of the game to in fairness like you know. Hi well. I did only started to do it. But come here listen good luck and with that only but thanks for coming up. Delight to have you back again and hopefully it's not another four years before you back up again and you never know you might come up with another two or three songs. But you're out this weekend. You're two gigs this week. Well once a private one and the other one is the Blitz House bar and park. Right that's dead on. I'm doing it actually as a wee two piece with another lad. Do that the ordinate as well. Two piece. Very good. Very good. Good track. And then sort of rune balahi and swatter and stuff like that. Do the tap house. The Freelance and Swatter. The Arcade Bar. The Arcade Bar. That's a great gig. Where is that? I've been given. Don't give it? Oh aye aye. The clubhouse has been given. A few bars and dairy. Play jacks bar and dairy. And the old docks. Restaurant we had as well. Oh lovely. That's good. But I'm getting better. You enjoying a bit Jimmy? I do enjoy it. That's good. That's a main thing. You know we have to enjoy it. Oh I never thought I'd do it. There are great nights and there's middling nights and then there are bad nights. But as it comes just you know. Can you ask Jim to sing Strong as an Ox for all the Michael Honeys at T-Van and Don Given? You know what I'm saying that right? T-Van. T-Avan. T-Avan and Don Given. He wrote this song for our father. He certainly is going to do that next. Can you ask Jim to play Strong as an Ox? My old friend. Well we'll do Strong as an Ox. But come here listen. Thanks for coming up. A real pleasure. Glad to be here. Oh no. We're glad to be back after all that pandemic stuff and stuff like that. And did you do much there? Did you do Facebook Live and stuff? I did the Facebook Live thing. How did you find that? I actually enjoyed it. Probably drinking too much right now. I think a lot of us would see him. I was setting Jackson Rocks, I don't know if you know Paul. Paul and Martina Bennett were playing down in the Glen. I met them a few times. I actually was done support act for Albert Lee. Yeah, all pretty good. A couple of times and they were in the audience. Well they were doing the Facebook Live every Sunday from their house. She was well cracked. And I'd be sitting there and I'd have a place out the back. I'd be sitting there and it's Sunday. I was half-tanked every Sunday. But I loved them coming on because I used to take them out talking to myself and play along with them. Oh right. It was just brilliant. And they created that atmosphere. So you got the same yourself. You don't the same yourself. It was great because you're playing all of a sudden from Australia and America. That's right. Brilliant. Well this is this final song. It's a very personal song. It's a big thing to do, of course. But you'll have to record this. I think I will. I will. I don't think I will record this. I'll record it and I'll record this song. William and James Bicklehenny from Tiaven and Dungiven. Wally James. Where is that in Dungiven? It's if you were committed in giving and from the dairy side. You know where Tommy O'Connell's you got that road there. Yes. Straight out that road. That's called the Machromore Road. And the townlands called Tiaven. Tiaven. There you go. It's good to know that. I don't know where you're at. Wally James was a farmer. Great musician. He played in the park band. If you ever heard of the park band. Now they were done relief for all the big bands in the castle back in the day. Back in the day. And they need another band called the West Ones. Right. And then I was in a band with them called the Oak Leaf Killie Band. Yes. So now Wally James was a great drummer. He played the flutes and the whistle. He was great on them and great singer. He sung numerous songs but there was two songs that stood out to me that he sung. One was called Irish Man Born. Now I've never heard anybody else do the song and I can't find the song anywhere. You know but I've got it. I'm signing it. But nobody else that I know has done the song. You have him recorded? Yeah. And another song he sung would have been My Own Native Land. So I sort of brought the name of these songs in this song. Excellent. One of the songs called Strong as a Nox. The Ballad of Wally James. Now I'll also put this one out to Wally James two sons out in America. Liam and Mark. Well done. A simple farm to stay out in the land. A younger day. With a drummer in the yard. A lived father's family. A music with his friends. And if Wally loved you, he loved you. Till the end. Till the end. Things won't last. Wally James. Old Ben by his side. Play a fine tune. And the flowers on. Wally James was sure to go. Guns have to change. He often told me stories. In the fields of barley carton Wally stood up. And he sang. I love you, Akushla. Things are not the same. Absolutely beautiful. Absolutely beautiful. Well done. What a lovely tribute. Have you got a reaction from people? A lot of a reaction from America. Because two sons are out in America. So I was shared just the other day actually. We're running a competition. It's been run by 2,500 independent radio stations throughout the country. Closing date is the 31st of this month. And we're asking singers to send in their MP3 with the original songs. That's been a riddle song. And there are before winners come from here. And each gets 175 euros each. One then represents us. And doubling in the winner gets a pull pot of 10 grand or something. That's a song there you should enter into that competition. So I've got a couple of days to get it recorded. You have. You have up until next Tuesday. Right. And that, I just think it's a beautiful song. Absolutely beautiful. You have to record that. Right. Lovely lyrics. And it's from the heart. Yeah. I'll certainly have a chat about it. Have a chat. Get your people, they sit around and have a talk about it. Come here. It's lovely seeing you. Great to be back. Thank you very much. And hopefully see you in the near future. You definitely will. You made it to her. That's right. Or as does her. That's right. But you won't leave him any glitches on my face. I jump. Thanks very much. Jump, mother folks. Thank you very much indeed. Well done. Here's what you