Andy Irvine & Paul Brady - Andy Irvine/Paul Brady [Purple LP]

Format:  180 gram purple LP in gatefold jacket with 12-page booklet
Catalogue No.: LUNLP3108
Barcode: 766397310817
Release Date: 04 Mar 2022
Genre: Folk

180 gram purple LP in gatefold jacket with 12-page booklet

Compass Records Group is announcing 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 Dónal Lunny and fiddler Kevin Burke to record what has become this Irish Music classic.

This Special Edition marks the first time the vinyl album has been pressed since the 70s. For this ultimate version, the ten 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 both as a gatefold LP and tri-fold CD wallet. Both formats include 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]), and include interviews with Andy Irvine, Paul Brady, Dónal Lunny and Kevin Burke, as well as testimonials from artists including Glen Hansard, Liam O'Maonlai and more.

"It was a golden age for Irish folk music and this is one of it's defining moment." - Mojo 5 star review out now

Uncut 8/10 review out now

Reviews confirmed in Record Collector, Songlines, RNR,EDS Magazine, Living Tradition

News story confirmed in Record Collector

TRACKS: Plains Of Kildare/ Lough Erne Shore/ Fred Finn’s Reel/Sailing Into Walpole’s Marsh/ Bonny Woodhall/ Arthur McBride And The Sergeant/ The Jolly Soldier/The Blarney Pilgrim/ Autumn Gold/ Mary And The Soldier/ The Streets Of Derry/ Martinmas Time/The Little Stack Of Wheat

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