a nationwide poll. His album The Boy to Be With was released in 2006 and includes Turner's tribute to late Irish bluesman Rory Gallagher. Turner commented on his lack of commercial success in 1993: I find that the American people really like what I do when I'm put in front of an audience of normal people, but when the recording industry gets my records, they tend to think the public won't understand or won't care about it. Maybe it's not happy enough or something. There's no use complaining about it. I'm choosing to go around that and go directly to the people. In late 2011, work commenced on a new collection, Songs foR a veRRy small OrchestRa, recorded in Ireland and released in 2012. Turner described the sound of the record as "Baroque Pop". The song "Yogi with a Broken Heart" contains a synthesizer accompaniment from Philip Glass, with whom Turner had performed the song at Carnegie Hall in 2011. Discography It's Only a Long Way Across (1987), Beggars Banquet Sky & the Ground (1989), Beggars Banquet Now Is Heaven (1991), Beggars Banquet Mañana in Manhattan ... Live (1994), Virtual Snakes and Ladders 1995 soundtrack BMG Angelic Language (1997), Baltik 3 Minute World (2001) Mr. Smith (2004), LoveCat The Boy to Be With (2004), 5030 Catch a Wave mini-album (2008), Pierce Turner Beyond The Blue (2010), LoveCat SoNgs for a VeRRy SmaLL ORchesTRa (2012) Love Can't Always Be Articulate (2016) Vinegar Hill (2019) Terrible Good (2022) Compilations Pierce Turner (1998), Beggars Banquet References External links 1949 births Living people Folk rock musicians Irish emigrants to the United States Irish male singer-songwriters Musicians from County Wexford People from Wexford, County Wexford