Andy Irvine And Paul Brady - Andy Irvine and Paul Brady

180-gram gatefold purple LP, remastered!

Twelve-page booklet included

Remastered from the analog tapes

First time on vinyl since the 1970s!

Includes a 12,000-word essay on "The Making Of" by Gareth Murphy (Cowboys and Indies) plus rare photos!

"Andy Irvine and Paul Brady (former Planxty members) team up for one of the greatest albums ever of traditional Irish songs. Their unique sound will stay with you long after the music as stopped." — AllMusic

From Compass Records Group, it's the special edition release of the Mulligan Records classic Andy Irvine / Paul Brady. Long thought of as one of the seminal releases in the Irish music cannon, the album has been praised by artists such as Bob Dylan (who recorded Paul Brady's arrangement of "Arthur McBride And The Sergeant," Bono, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Liam O'Maonlai (Hothouse Flowers), and Radie Peat and Daragh Lynch (both of Lankum).

In 1976, Andy Irvine and Paul Brady, fresh from the demise of the Irish supergroup Planxty, entered legendary Rockfield Studios in Wales with mystic producer/bouzouki player Dônal Lunny and fiddler Kevin Burke to record what has become an Irish Music classic. Andy Irvine / Paul Brady propelled them to be viewed as one of the most accomplished Irish traditional duos that have ever recorded. All these years later perhaps no record more pointedly reflects the time and the spirit of innovation within one genre of music.

This special edition marks the first time this album's been pressed on vinyl since the 1970s. For this ultimate version, the 10-track album was remastered from the original analog tapes, which were transferred at 192k/32-bit to maintain the highest resolution, mastered with the best combination of classic analog and state of the art digital equipment, and packaged as a gatefold LP. The package includes a 12,000-word essay by noted music journalist Gareth Murphy (Cowboys and Indies — The Epic History of the Record Industry and Siren Song: My Life in Music [with Seymour Stein]), as well as interviews with Andy Irvine, Paul Brady, Dônal, Lunny and Kevin Burke, as well as testimonals from artists including Glen Hansard, Liam O'Maonlai, Brian MacGloinn of Ye Vagabonds, Daragh Lynch of Lankum, Consuelo Nerea Breschi and Lucie Azconaga of Varo, P.J. Curtis and more.

 

Side A

1. Plains of Kildare

2. Lough Erne Shore

3. Fred Finn's Reel/Sailing Into Walpole's Marsh

4. Bonny Woodhall

5. Arthur McBride and the Sergeant

Side B

1. The Jolly Soldier/The Blarney Pilgrim

2. Autumn Gold

3. Mary and the Soldier

4. The Streets of Derry

5. Martinmas Time/The Little Stack of Wheat

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