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Rain on the Roof (album)

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Most of the recordings on this CD were done as if live. That is to say I sat in front of microphones with my bouzouki or mandolin in my lap, my harmonica in its holder round my neck, and my drone volume pedal on the floor, under my foot, and played and sang all in one
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The album opens with "Prince Among Men", a song about the hazards and dangers of working underground in a mine–which Irvine wrote from the perspective of a man whose late father, James Doyle, had been a miner.
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Recorded in June, July and August 1996, it is the closest the listener could get to the experience of attending one of his live performances.
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With "Take No Prisoners/Old Brunswick", we find Irvine combining rhythms and musical phrases from the Irish and Greek traditions.
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Other instruments were added (on four of the eleven tracks) by Rens van der Zalm (fiddle and mandolin), Stephen Cooney (
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Huntington, Gale; Herrmann, Lani; Dr Moulden, John, eds. (2010).
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in the coalfields of Southern Colorado on 20 April 1914.
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Index


Studio album
Andy Irvine
County Cork
County Kerry
Genre
Irish
Balkan
American
Label
Producer
Andy Irvine
East Wind
Way Out Yonder
Andy Irvine
didgeridoo
Kpanlogo drum
Declan Masterson
Planxty
Daichevo
tambura
County Clare
Sweeney's Men
Michael Davitt
Irish National Land League
Bulgarian dance
apt and witty title
Alistair Hulett
blue asbestos
Wittenoom

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