{"id":29316,"date":"2017-08-09T11:39:52","date_gmt":"2017-08-09T10:39:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/?p=29316"},"modified":"2017-08-09T11:39:52","modified_gmt":"2017-08-09T10:39:52","slug":"barney-mccullagh-releases-newest-album-the-toft-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2017\/08\/barney-mccullagh-releases-newest-album-the-toft-album\/","title":{"rendered":"Barney McCullagh Releases Newest Album &#8216;The Toft Album&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"29317\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2017\/08\/barney-mccullagh-releases-newest-album-the-toft-album\/image001-5-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/image001-5.jpg?fit=544%2C544&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"544,544\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-title=\"image001 (5)\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/image001-5.jpg?fit=544%2C544&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-29317\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/image001-5.jpg?resize=544%2C544&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"544\" height=\"544\" \/><\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Singer songwriter Barney McCullagh&#8217;s first album, the 10-track &#8216;The Toft Album&#8217;, is out now via all major media.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Barney is a professional interpeter, and found his creativity stimulated through medication he has to take for his Parkinson&#8217;s Disease. Barney was inspired to try musical composition and he takes his influences from classic rock and pop artists, including the Beatles, Stealers Wheel, Dusty Springfield, and Duran Duran.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8216;The Toft Album&#8217; is named for Barry&#8217;s home village of Toft, Cambridgeshire, and even features an homage to the town, &#8216;The People Of Toft&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stylistically the album takes us through folk, rock and pop, with both up tempo tracks, such as &#8216;The People Of Toft&#8217;, and anthemic choral pieces like, &#8216;Vale Maria&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">You can find The Toft Album on <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/user-963543221\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Soundcloud<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/album\/2VKUY7NZYoD1YijE21reKp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Spotify<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.7digital.com\/artist\/barney-barrie\/release\/the-toft-album-6329828\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">7 Digital<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/us.napster.com\/artist\/barney\/album\/the-toft-album\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Napster<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Toft-Album-Barrie-Barney\/dp\/B06Y1NQMC2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Amazon.<\/a><\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"450\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F334603641&#038;auto_play=false&#038;hide_related=false&#038;visual=true&#038;show_comments=true&#038;color=false&#038;show_user=true&#038;show_reposts=false\"><\/iframe>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Singer songwriter Barney McCullagh&#8217;s first album, the 10-track &#8216;The Toft Album&#8217;, is out now via all major media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":29317,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[57,9],"tags":[111,4789,10868,10871,920,7243,1049,144,77,226,78,1181,304,10872,178,10869,10870],"class_list":["post-29316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-artists","category-new-releases","tag-album","tag-anthem","tag-barney-mccullagh","tag-cambridgeshire","tag-duran-duran","tag-dusty-springfield","tag-folk","tag-new-album","tag-new-release","tag-pop","tag-singer","tag-singer-songwriter","tag-songwriter","tag-stealers-wheel","tag-the-beatles","tag-the-toft-album","tag-toft"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yMhl-7CQ","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":41438,"url":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2018\/10\/haunting-folk-pop-track-how-to-win-from-brother-sister-duo-the-native-sibling\/","url_meta":{"origin":29316,"position":0},"title":"Haunting Folk Pop Track &#8216;How to Win&#8217; From  Brother Sister Duo The Native Sibling","author":"Lisa Hafey","date":"16\/10\/2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Seattle based brother-sister duo, The Native Sibling, are comprised of Ryan and Kaylee Williams. 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