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Paul Brady on folkalley.com 17 January 08

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Thanks to a tip from Amrei, I’ve been listening to folkalley.com a lot lately via iTunes. It plays a lot of Bluegrass and Irish music, well selected. Good fiddle and mandolin.

They just played (northern) Irish musician Paul Brady’s rendition of Arthur McBride, recorded in 1998. A beautiful song and it brought back memories of having heard it a lot many years ago; I believe I had a few of his albums as far back as college. I also think I saw him play somewhere once.

Found a 1977 version of the song via his website (afterwards it will present more of his work):

Some links

www.folkalley.com/

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Brady

www.paulbrady.com/

Shillelagh

shillelagh | sh əˈlālē|
noun
a thick stick of blackthorn or oak used in Ireland, typically as a weapon.
ORIGIN late 18th cent.: from the name of the town Shillelagh, in County Wicklow, Ireland.

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