Terry Woods

Irish musician
The basics

Quick Facts

IntroIrish musician
PlacesUnited Kingdom
isMusician Luth player
Work fieldMusic
Gender
Male
Genres:Folk music
Instruments:Mandolin
Birth4 December 1947, Dublin, Ireland
Age77 years
Star signSagittarius
The details

Biography

Terence Woods (born 4 December 1947 in Dublin, Ireland) is an Irish folk musician, noted for playing the mandolin and cittern, but also plays acoustic and electric guitar, mandola, five-string banjo and concertina. He is also a singer and songwriter. He is known for his membership in such folk and folk-rock groups as The Pogues, Steeleye Span, Sweeney's Men, The Bucks and, briefly, Dr. Strangely Strange and Dublin rock band Orphanage, with Phil Lynott, as well as in a duo/band with his then wife, Gay, billed initially as The Woods Band and later as Gay and Terry Woods. Woods has toured with The Pogues on their reunion concerts.

Discography

Albums

With Sweeney's Men

  • Sweeney's Men
  • The Tracks of Sweeney
  • Andy Irvine/70th Birthday Concert at Vicar St 2012

With Steeleye Span

  • Hark! The Village Wait

With The Woods Band

  • The Woods Band
  • Music From The Four Corners of Hell(without Gay)

As Gay & Terry Woods

  • Backwoods
  • The Time Is Right
  • Renowned
  • Tender Hooks
  • In Concert (compilation of 1976 & 1978 BBC sessions)

With The Pogues

  • Poguetry in Motion (EP)
  • If I Should Fall From Grace With God
  • Peace And Love
  • Hell's Ditch
  • Waiting for Herb

With The Bucks

  • Dancin' To The Ceili Band

With Ron Kavana

  • Home Fire

Other releases

  • 1968 Waxie's Dargle / Old Woman In Cotton, 7" single, Sweeney's Men (Pye 7N 17459)
  • 1981 Tennessee Stud / I Don't Know About Love, 7" single, Terry Woods (with Phil Lynott)
  • 1989 Misty Morning Albert Bridge / Cotton Fields / Young Ned of the Hill (Dub Version), 7" and 12" single (also cassette and cd), The Pogues
  • 1989 White City / Everyman Is A King 7" single (also cassette and cd), The Pogues
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