The Spook of the Thirteenth Lock is music from Dublin, Ireland. Named after a poem about a haunted canal lock, the Spook plucks banjos and twangs guitars, he yelps and he drones and sings songs about doomed revolutionaries, brave partisans, corrupt politicians and constant struggle.

 Live the Spook plays solo with guitar, banjo and effects or swells to full band with bass, guitars, drums.

 The eponymous debut album see songs in the Irish folk tradition expanded into the realms of psych, prog and post rock...

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