Bones (Susan McKeown album)

Bones is the debut studio album by Susan McKeown & The Chanting House, following two self-released mixtapes. The album was released through indie label 1-800-Prime-CD on September 17, 1996. Produced by McKeown and Jimi Zhivago, Bones features guest appearances from Johnny Cunningham and Jerry O'Sullivan.

The album was met with wide-spread critical acclaim from various media outlets, including AllMusic, Time Magazine, the Los Angeles Times, Rhythm, The Boston Globe, and the New York Daily News. The song "Jericho" was subsequently included in the 1997 compilation album Women Of The World: Celtic II from Putumayo World Music. The track was later featured in the 1999 BBC documentary series The Irish Empire. The song "Westlin Winds" was covered by the band Fairport Convention on their 1999 album The Wood and the Wire. The song "Cé Leis E'?" was featured on The Midnight Special in 2020.

When commenting on the albums' genre in an interview with Billboard, McKeown noted “on Bones, I write songs using the rhythms of jigs and reels, but at the same time they are unmistakably rock songs. Traditional music is dear to me, but it’s up to the new generation to see how it’s carried down.”