A looming presence in every sense, Tootawl‘s music is frank, forward, and rich with emotion. Christened ‘too tawl’ due to his height whilst gigging in Nashville, the name stuck, and upon his arrival home to Ireland he began working as Tootawl.

 

Playing his own brand of contemporary folk and blues, inspired by the likes of Bob Dylan and Neil Young, Tootawl fuses his Irish-ness with these titanic influences. Since Tennessee, Tootawl has received national radio airplay, and also had his song ‘House On The Moon’ played in an episode of the Netflix series ‘You Me Her’. He has released two LPs, his debut self-titled LP in 2020, which Ben Blackwell of Third Man Records called “wonderfully strong, Dylanesque”, and a concept album called Roger Fenton’s Wagon in 2022, which is selling healthily on gatefold vinyl. Now, he is gearing up to release a string of new singles in preparation for a third album.