Mary Black - Stories from the Steeples

For the last quarter-century, singer Mary Black has been a dominant presence in Irish music, both at home and abroad. She has shared stages, tv shows and recording studios with some of the most revered performers of her time. She has also played a frontline role in bringing Irish music, past and present, to an increasingly appreciative and ever-growing global audience. The San Francisco Chronicle has described her as "One of the best interpretative singers around".

At a time when less adventurous performers preferred to stick exclusively to the well-worn ballads from Ireland’s rich music heritage and the more obvious hits from contemporary writers, Mary explored the best work available from new composers and mined the rich seams they offered. That commitment to fresh material, combined with her unique interpretations of the songs she chooses, saw her release numerous albums that achieved platinum sales status and spawned countless hits. Indeed, one of Mary’s albums - No Frontiers - spent more than a year in the Irish Top 30!

To the acclaim and awards Mary has received over the years from both the public and the critics must also be added the esteem she has generated from her fellow artists. Indeed, many of them have recorded and performed live with her, including Emmylou Harris, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Joan Baez and Van Morrison, not to mention a host of Irish traditional musicians and singers. Along the way she has also recorded and performed with her siblings in The Black Family and with her highly successful sister Frances.

Coming from an intensely musical family, with her mother a fine singer and her father an entertaining fiddle player, Mary first came to the music public’s attention in the late ‘70s as a member of the group General Humbert with whom she recorded and toured. In 1983 she teamed up with guitarist/producer Declan Sinnott (later to become Christy Moore’s musical sidekick) and released her eponymously-named debut solo album. It reached No. 4 in the Irish Charts and is ranked among the best Irish albums of the early 1980's. It won her the Irish Independent Arts Award for Music, the first in a staggering sequence of awards that continue to come her way.SEGUIR LEYENDO

ENLACES DE INTERES
http://www.mary-black.net/
http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Black

TRACKS
01. Mary Black - Marguerite And The Gambler (4:23)
02. Mary Black - The Night Was Dark And Deep (3:51)
03. Mary Black - Mountains To The Sea (With Imelda May) (4:54)
04. Mary Black - Faith In Fate (4:19)
05. Mary Black - Steady Breathing (3:44)
06. Mary Black - Walking With My Love (With Finbar Furey) (3:32)
07. Mary Black - All The Fine Young Men (4:12)
08. Mary Black - The Night Is On Our Side (3:46)
09. Mary Black - Lighthouse Light (With Janis Ian) (3:59)
10. Mary Black - Wizard Of Oz (4:20)
11. Mary Black - One True Place (5:16)
12. Mary Black - Fifi The Flea (2:42)

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