Joe Giltrap

b. 4 July 1943, Leixlip, County Kildare, Eire. Before taking up music in 1966, singer Giltrap had been a keen soccer and Gaelic footballer. He started singing with a local group, the Rye Folk, before joining top recording folk band the Broadsiders. He then left them to join a new country band, the Cotton Mill Boys, for a brief period in 1969, before re-joining the Broadsiders. By 1972 all the chopping and changing had become an irritant, and Giltrap went solo. As Jason Cord he recorded a single, ‘Keeps Right On A Hurtin'', for Polydor Records, moving to London later the same y...