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Eamon McGrath | Lust Never Sleeps Vol. 6: Exclusive EP Premiere

The Toronto troubadour returns to active duty with his first release in 18 months.

Eamon McGrath scrapes off the rust and gets back up to speed with his new live EP Lust Never Sleeps Vol. 6 — premiering exclusively on Tinnitist.

Recorded just last week in Toronto, the five-track solo acoustic release is the relentlessly prolific Windsor singer-songwriter’s first official offering in nearly 18 months — a veritable eternity for McGrath, who issued a whopping 14 studio and live albums in 2023.

Making a welcome return to active duty after a quiet 2024, the troubadour picks up right where he left off on LNS6, serving up understatedly magnficent renditions of Sundown In Osaka, Hold Me Never Let Me Go and August — three standouts from his exceptional 2023 album A Dizzyling Lust — along with Givin Up from 2019’s adventurous outing Guts and the more recent live staple She Moved Through The Fair. All feature McGrath’s finely sanded pipes, haunting lyrics and hypnotic, and quietly insistent fingerpicking (along with the occasional bit of ghostly harmonica). As usual, it’s all he needs to get the job done.

“This particular instalment was recorded last Friday, Jan. 24, at Houndstooth in Toronto, at Shots For Schatz, a benefit concert organized by Cassettes Records for Will Schatz, a legendary front of house engineer (NoMeansNo, High On Fire, Wayne Kramer) who’s been outta work for health reasons,” says McGrath.

Photo by Robert Georgeoff.

“The concerts occurred simultaneously in Toronto and Calgary — the Calgary show was live-streamed to the bar once the Toronto show ended. Ian Blurton’s Future Now headlined, and Dead Broke, Peter Landi Band and myself supported. The fundraiser was a huge success, and the Canadian music community really banded together for one of its own and gave back to someone who’s spent their whole career giving everything they’ve got for music.”

McGrath is no slouch in that department either. As his Bandcamp page points out, wiith over 300 songs written and recorded, album of the year credits and multiple continent-spanning tours, he has developed a body of work that could rival that of any artist 15 years his senior. And in typical fashion, the perennial road dog is heading back out on the highway this spring for a string of dates in Germany and Switzerland, undoubtedly to be followed by countless more gigs around the country (and the world).

Listen to Lust Never Sleeps Vol. 6 and check out his upcoming live dates below, and just try to keep up with Eamon McGrath on his website, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

Eamon McGrath’s European Spring 2025 Tour Dates

May 2 | Pub Morlock | Celle, Germany
May 3 | The Irish Rover | Hamburg, Germany
May 4 | Waggon | Offenbach, Germany
May 5 | Kulturcafé | Mainz, Germany
May 7 | Sandershaus | Kassel, Germany
May 8 | Slow Club | Freiburg, Germany
May 9 | Kraft Point, Mulhouse, Germany
May 15 | Cafe Festung | Traunstein, Germany
May 16 | Tübli | Schwyz, Switzerland
May 17 | Kultur Waldenschaft | Nordendorf, Germany

 

Photo by Danny Miles.