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Track Listings
| 1. The Scholar |
| 2. If You Love Me |
| 3. Feet Of A Dancer |
| 4. The Isle Of Malachy |
| 5. New Orleans |
| 6. The Water Is Wide |
| 7. Leaving Neidin |
| 8. Crazy Dreams |
| 9. Love's Old Sweet Song |
| 10. Another Morning |
| 11. I Will |
| 12. Just In Time |
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Maura O'Connell has by far the most moving voice of all the popular Irish folk singers. Her music is lyrical and fresh. This is the first album by her that I ever heard, and I don't think that it has been surpassed. Wonderful.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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Maura O'Connell has never surpassed this marvellous collection. Her voice, even way back, is perfect, assured and inspired, aided by her best choice of songs (although Helpless Heart comes close), fantastic arrangements and accompanying players.
O'Connell is one of those interpreters who makes the songs their own without taking liberties with the fundamental soul and mood of the song, and that is certainly the case with popular but not hackneyed choices eg Lennon McCartney's I Will, Paul Brady's Crazy Dreams, Thom Moore's Scholar or Charlie McGettigan's beautiful Feet of a Dancer.
The flawless unaccompanied (apart from her own harmonies) Water is Wide is perfectly understated, and other slower ballads like Isle of Malachy, If You Love Me and Love's Old Sweet Song are perfectly nuanced, the subtle inflections of her voice adding delicious variation. She also shows a touch for the jazzy note with New Orleans and Just in Time but it's just one gem after another. Plaudits to Bela Fleck, not only for some stellar banjo playing but for sympathetic arrangements and production that showcase Maura O'Connell's voice to its best advantage. Listening to this album and its successor it's hard not to feel with regret that O'Connell has never really achieved this level of perfection since.
O'Connell is one of those interpreters who makes the songs their own without taking liberties with the fundamental soul and mood of the song, and that is certainly the case with popular but not hackneyed choices eg Lennon McCartney's I Will, Paul Brady's Crazy Dreams, Thom Moore's Scholar or Charlie McGettigan's beautiful Feet of a Dancer.
The flawless unaccompanied (apart from her own harmonies) Water is Wide is perfectly understated, and other slower ballads like Isle of Malachy, If You Love Me and Love's Old Sweet Song are perfectly nuanced, the subtle inflections of her voice adding delicious variation. She also shows a touch for the jazzy note with New Orleans and Just in Time but it's just one gem after another. Plaudits to Bela Fleck, not only for some stellar banjo playing but for sympathetic arrangements and production that showcase Maura O'Connell's voice to its best advantage. Listening to this album and its successor it's hard not to feel with regret that O'Connell has never really achieved this level of perfection since.
Format:Audio CD
I have a fair collection of Maura's early work - seven CDs - and this is probably her best.
I rarely find that I regularly listen to more than half the tracks on any CD by any artist but I find myself skipping just two on this disc.
If you like a clear, defined voice, perfectly empathetic with the music then you'll listen to these tracks over and over.
Quite simply there isn't another Irish folk singer (that I've yet to discover anyway) with such a crystal clear voice and whose arranger has done such a superb job.
Buy it!
I rarely find that I regularly listen to more than half the tracks on any CD by any artist but I find myself skipping just two on this disc.
If you like a clear, defined voice, perfectly empathetic with the music then you'll listen to these tracks over and over.
Quite simply there isn't another Irish folk singer (that I've yet to discover anyway) with such a crystal clear voice and whose arranger has done such a superb job.
Buy it!
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