Flynn

Alternative folk-rock musician Flynn grew up answering to the name Martin Crotty in the small town of Greystones in Ireland's County Wicklow. But the young guitarist decided in the late '80s that emigrating to the United States was the best way to make a name for himself in the rock music industry. Flynn set up shop in Boston's teeming music scene, joining singer Eric Sean Murphy, drummer Lex Lianos, and bassman Ira Nulton to found the Cliffs of Dooneen in 1991. The band shared its name with a Celtic folk song, but their alternative pop/rock sound revealed very little Irish in...