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Sean Griffin
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- The Chatterbox Redux Podcast
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- May 7, 2026
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- 1958
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Summary
Today's episode is brought to you in association with the Strong Coffee Company. Please scroll down to the bottom for your exclusive 20% discount. Listen out for more from the Strong Coffee Company on today's podcast. In this edition of the Chatterbox Redux Podcast Nick, Sue and Twinkle are joined in the Chatterbox Studio by Irish-American Singer-Songwriter Sean Griffin. Sean Griffin’s People Are Mad is, in a sense, decades in the making. The album arrives after 25 years of The Ruffians becoming a formidable voice in Irish punk rock, a reputation that’s led to them sharing the stage with Irish punk icon Shane McGowan and earned them the distinction of being called the “Y-Generation Pogues” by legendary rock critic Jim DeRogatiis. The project is a deeply felt collection of songs pulled from both Griffin’s present day and his past. Extending the burly, rambunctious sound established under The Ruffians while bringing his multifaceted songwriting to the foreground, Griffin reached out to Grammy-winning producer Kenny Siegal (Langhorne Slim, Chris Whitley) in 2023, and the pair got to work and recorded the entire album within the year while capturing the same in-the-room sound that The Ruffians built their name on. That live feel was brought to a perfect finish courtesy of Grammy-winning engineer Mathew Cullen, as well as respective mixing and mastering jobs by Paul Kolderie and Greg Calbi. The project also features contributions from Lee Falco on drums, Brandon Morrison on bass, Will Bryant on keyboards, Siegal throwing in pedal steel and guitar contributions, fiddle player Eugene Bender, and harpist Michaela Davis. In addition, Wreckless Eric, Jolynda “Kiki” Phillips, Kaia Dedek and Jules Olsen provided backup vocals. Across the record, Griffin brings in a wide variety of…