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Track Listings
| 1. I Dreamt I Dwelt In Marble Halls |
| 2. Mountains Of Mourne |
| 3. Homes Of Donegal |
| 4. Dirty Old Town |
| 5. Margaret Barry Broke My Heart |
| 6. Curragh Of Kildare |
| 7. Whiskey In The Jar |
| 8. Fields Of Athenry |
| 9. Will Ye Go Lassie Go |
| 10. Raglan Road |
| 11. Carrickfergus |
| 12. I'll Take You Home Again Kathleen |
| 13. Isle Of Innisfree |
| 14. Danny Boy |
| 15. Town I Loved So Well |
| 16. My Lagan Love |
| 17. You Raise Me Up |
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Easy on the ear and yet weighty with the timeworn poetry of irreconcilable heartache and fractious social history, On Song is a collection of popular modern and ancient Irish song, explored--in true labour of love fashion--by Belfast's satin-voiced artist and former Van Morrison accomplice Brian Kennedy. As his BBC television series Brian Kennedy on Song indicated, all is not what it seems, least of all when it comes to such St Patrick's Night karoake staples as "I'll Take You Home Kathleen" and "Danny Boy". The latter--herein performed in the manner of an acoustic Radiohead gone rural--is an Irish tune of unknown origin (but with words written by Englishman Fred Weatherly) and remains a perennial case of tug-of-love ownership between squabbling Loyalists and Nationalists. The former, far from being Irish, was actually composed by a 19th century American for his homesick German wife, a fact almost as remarkable as Kennedy's marvellous Jeff Buckley like rendition, on which he is accompanied by the solemn strains of a chamber string quartet.
Easy on the ear and yet weighty with the timeworn poetry of irreconcilable heartache and fractious social history, On Song is a collection of popular modern and ancient Irish song, explored--in true labour of love fashion--by Belfast's satin-voiced artist and former Van Morrison accomplice Brian Kennedy. As his BBC television series Brian Kennedy on Song indicated, all is not what it seems, least of all when it comes to such St Patrick's Night karoake staples as "I'll Take You Home Kathleen" and "Danny Boy". The latter--herein performed in the manner of an acoustic Radiohead gone rural--is an Irish tune of unknown origin (but with words written by Englishman Fred Weatherly) and remains a perennial case of tug-of-love ownership between squabbling Loyalists and Nationalists. The former, far from being Irish, was actually composed by a 19th century American for his homesick German wife, a fact almost as remarkable as Kennedy's marvellous Jeff Buckley like rendition, on which he is accompanied by the solemn strains of a chamber string quartet.
While the soft jazz shuffle through "Dirty Old Town"--Ewan MacColl's disdainful testimonial to the satanic mills of industrial Salford--is a strange way of going about things, On Song works because Kennedy has chosen the more contemporary material (Pete St John's transportation epic "The Fields Of Athenry", for example) exceedingly wisely. And--showing he's ever the team-player--the collaborations with Paul Brady on the Van Morrison influenced Celtic soul of "Homes of Donegal" and with Sinead O'Connor (who undertook a similar project with her Sean Nos Nua) on "I Dreamt I Dwelt in Marble Halls" are a perfect marriage of interpretation and temperament. With the older material, Kennedy expertly extracts the humanity from the dead dry ink on the songsheets. It's fair to say that Kennedy's sole original composition, the wistful "Margaret Barry Broke My Heart" (a eulogy to Ireland's itinerant gypsy harpist) stands up extremely well in such distinguished company. --Kevin Maidment
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