14 July 2008
Mary McPartlan
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Well-weathered Irish vocalist Mary McPartlan’s second CD, Petticoat Loose, has diverse arrangements and styles with a core of traditional songs from her childhood in Co. Leitrim.
Mary started singing in the early 1970s, but it wasn’t until 2003 when she decided to make music her full time career. Her debut CD, The Holland Handkerchief, was voted Mojo’s #1 Folk Album. Petticoat Loose includes some nicely done covers - Leonard Cohen’s Sisters of Mercy, the traditional Romanian Lumé Lumé and Arlo Guthrie’s Victor Jara, along with new versions of Irish traditional songs that she has developed with poet/playwright Vincent Woods such as the title track - the story of a legendary wild woman of South East Ireland. The arrangements are ambitious and different from each other, featuring a fair swag of string sections.
Playlist
Playlist
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Innuendo Out The Other
Philip DeGruy
Degruy-Gruy Music
NYC 6013 2 (US Import)
Philip DeGruy, Innuendo Out The Other
15 seconds (excerpt)
(solo 17-string elec guitar, fingerstyle; v quirky, virtuosic & humorous, more or less a bent-boogie)
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CD Cut 3 - 'Generous Lover'
Traditional, Arrangement: Mary McPartlan
Pub Not Spec
Mac P Productions MCPRCD 002 ( In Australia, through The Planet Company/ MGM
email: info@theplanetcompany.com
website: www.theplanetcompany.com
worldwide: www.marymcpartlan.com
Mary McPartlan - 'Petticoat Loose'
3:36
(Solo vocal in English in the song about a 'generous lover' who is in fact less generous than the singer, a woman left pregnant and alone by her lover)
LYRICS AND BACKGROUND ON THIS SONG:
http://www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/~zierke/lloyd/songs/mygenerouslover.html
Segue
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CD Cut 1 - 'The Holland Handkerchief'
Trad, arr, Mary McPartlan/Shamie O'Dowd
IMRO
Independent Release: MCPRCD 001 ( www.marymacpartlan.com )
Mary McPartlan - 'The Holland Handkerchief'
5:44
(Shamie O'Dowd's acoustic and electric guitars, Paddy Keenan's uillean pipes and Mary's vocals in eerie tale of girl who has a tryst with her lover, who has been dead for 6 months)
LYRICS AND BACKGROUND ON THIS SONG:
http://www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/~zierke/watersons/songs/thehollandhandkerchief.html
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CD Cut 11 - 'Lumè Lumè'
Lyrics Traditional, arrangement by Garry O Biain and ConTempo
Pub Not Spec
Mac P Productions MCPRCD 002 ( In Australia, through The Planet Company/ MGM
email: info@theplanetcompany.com
website: www.theplanetcompany.com
worldwide: www.marymcpartlan.com
Mary McPartlan - 'Petticoat Loose'
4:17
(Mary's unlikely version of Romanian Gypsy song, with low male chorus and string section)
WANT TO HEAR MARIA TANASE'S VERSION OF THE SAME SONG?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79QVepeBrWA
WANT TO KNOW ABOUT MARIA TANASE, ORIGINAL SINGER OF THIS SONG?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Tanase
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CD (Disc One) Cut 1, 'I'm Your Man'
Leonard Cohen, Arr Monsieur Camembert
Pub Not Spec
CAM 005
(self-issued.
Available worldwide. Go to:
http://members.tripod.com/~thehotclub/real-1.html )
Monsieur Camembert - 'Famous Blue Cheese'
4: 34
(Austral Perf And Arr: 'Live', swaggering, a little lewd and a lot of fun. Yaron Hallis is the singer and his Camembert band-mate Eduoard Bronson the swaggering tenor saxophonist)
MONSIEUR CAMEMBERT GIG ALERT:
16 Aug 2008 Leonard Cohen International Festival 2008 Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
(with Darrell Scott, Tom Rush, Jann Arden)
23 Aug 2008 9:00 P
Brass Monkey Cronulla, New South Wales
LES YEUX NOIR ADELAIDE CONCERT ALERT:
Her Majesty's Theatre, Grote St, Adelaide
31 July
Adults $35/$30, Concession $30/$25, Groups (6 or more) $30/$25
BASS on 131 246 or online at www.bass.net.au
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CD Cut 10 - 'Sisters of Mercy'
Lyrics and Music - Leonard Cohen, Arrangement - Seamie O Dowd and Mary McPartlan
Pub Not Spec
Mac P Productions MCPRCD 002 ( In Australia, through The Planet Company/ MGM
email: info@theplanetcompany.com
website: www.theplanetcompany.com
worldwide: www.marymcpartlan.com
Mary McPartlan - 'Petticoat Loose'
3:34
(Unusual rendition of early Leonard Cohen song with Irish female lead vocal, piano and strings)
Segue
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CD (Disc One) Cut 2, 'Gypsy Wife'
Leonard Cohen, Arr Monsieur Camembert
Pub Not Spec
CAM 005
(self-issued.
Available worldwide. Go to:
http://members.tripod.com/~thehotclub/real-1.html )
Monsieur Camembert - 'Famous Blue Cheese'
5:20
(Austral Perf And Arr: Cuckold's lament. Has a genuine poignancy, which extends to both the 'gypsy wife' and to the husbandly persona in which the song's delivered. Yaron is the singer. Features violinist Daniel Weltlinger, with nice use of the bass clarinet, played by Mr Bronson. Plus brushes, ac bass, accordion, banjo - 'live'.
LEONARD COHEN'S FIRST TOUR IN 15 YEARS ALERT:
http://www.leonardcohenfiles.com/latest.html
YOU'D LIKE TO KNOW VERY MUCH MORE ABOUT COHEN?
Boggle your mind with 800 {well-indexed, searchable} web pages at
http://leonardcohenfiles.com It includes lyrics to all songs
YOU'D JUST LIKE THE BASIC BIO?
Go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Cohen
It does link to various other sites, including the aforementioned mother-of-all.
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CD Cut 6 - 'Foot'
Adam Simmons
Assume AMCOS
ABC 476 6237 ( in Australia through Universal.
Available at ABC shops and online: www.abcshop.com.au )
The Bennetts Lane Big Band - 'The Snip'
Four and a half minute excerpt
(Composition that veers between rock and big band swing, jazz and free improv, with features for trumpet and screaming sax)
I'M NOT SURE WHEN THE BENNETTS LANE BIG BAND IS NEXT PERFORMING, BUT HERE ARE SOME TOURING DATES FROM WA'S MACE FRANCIS ORCHESTRA:
JULY 16 / 7.30pm / THE BARN PALAIS / Mt Gambier
JULY 17 / 8pm / THE PROMETHEAN / Adelaide
Presenter
Lucky Oceans
Producer
Lucky Oceans
