ANDY IRVINE & PAUL BRADY – Andy Irvine / Paul Brady (Special Ed.) – LP – 180g Purple Vinyl

LP Limited Special Edition 180g Purple Vinyl

(Housed in a 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 Bradys arrangement of Arthur McBride And The Sergeant), Bono, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Liam OMaonlai (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 Dnal 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, Dnal Lunny and Kevin Burke, as well as testimonials from artists including Glen Hansard, Liam OMaonlai and more.

It was a golden age for Irish folk music and this is one of its defining moment. Mojo 5 star review out now

Uncut 8/10 review out now

Tracklisting:

Side A
1. Plains Of Kildare
2. Lough Erne Shore
3. Fred Finns Reel / Sailing Into Walpoles 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