Artist: Bap Kennedy
Album: The Sailor's Revenge
Bitrate: 227kbps avg
Quality: EAC Secure Mode / LAME 3.98.4 / -V0 / 44.100Khz
Label: Proper Records
Genre: Folk/Rock
Size: 144.51 megs
PlayTime: 1h 24min 50sec total
Rip Date: 2012-02-25
Store Date: 2012-02-24
Track List: Disc #1/2
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01. Shimnavale 5:06
02. Not A Day Goes By 4:05
03. Jimmy Sanchez 4:38
04. Lonely No More 3:06
05. The Right Stuff 3:46
06. Maybe I Will 4:33
07. Please Return To Jesus 4:11
08. The Sailor's Revenge 4:53
09. Working Man 4:30
10. The Beauty Of You 3:30
11. Celtic Sea 6:09
Track List: Disc #2/2
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01. Moonlight Kiss 3:04
02. Unforgiven 3:39
03. On The Mighty Ocean Alcohol 2:24
04. Milky Way 3:51
05. Loverman 3:16
06. The Way I Love Her 3:33
07. Howl On 4:10
08. The Sweet Smell Of Success 3:10
09. Into The Arms Of Love 3:10
10. Be True To Your Heart 2:48
11. Moriarty's Blues (Alternate 3:18
Version)
Release Notes:
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Bap Kennedy cut his musical teeth with Belfast band Energy Orchard and he has
gained a well-deserved reputation as a solo artist. Van Morrison, Steve Earle,
Shane MacGowan and Nanci Griffith are a few of the luminaries who have sung his
praises.
Kennedy is an interesting, atypical figure in the music business. He has a
diploma in Diamond Gemology. "IÆm kind of an expert on diamonds. I can tell a
good diamond from a poor diamond. If you ever want to get engaged, come and see
me and IÆll steer you right," he joked. His wife Brenda, a singer-songwriter, is
a former solicitor who has written books on autism.
Dire Straits's guitarist and vocalist Mark Knopfler has produced and
collaborated with Kennedy on his latest album, The Sailor's Revenge, which is a
confident, assured piece of work. Some of it sounds a bit Cal-like - a fine
soundtrack album Knopfler made with Paul Brady in the 1980s.
On The Sailor's Revenge, the tracks are well written, the singing is good and
the musicianship first class - unsurprising, since Jerry Douglas, James
Walbourne, Guy Fletcher, Glenn Worf and John McCusker are among those playing.
Special praise, too, for Michael McGoldrick, who is stunning on flutes, pipes
and whistle.
But it's Bap - the 50-year-old older brother of singer Brian Kennedy - who is
the real star of the show. He's an adroit songwriter and he can cover soul,
country and folk with ease. All 11 songs are of high quality - the standouts
perhaps being Jimmy Sanchez and The Sailor's Revenge - and it's easy to see why
Van the man rates Bap the Chap so highly.