Horslips - Dancehall Sweethearts

Band: Horslips
Album: Dancehall Sweethearts
Year: 1974
Country: Ireland
Genre: pop-folk-rock
Format: Lossless (WV+CUE+LOG+COVER)

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Элементы ирландского и английского фолка, немного психоделии с перкуссией, дудками и интересными клавишами. Рок-гитары и женские подпевки. И никаких прог выкрутасов.



Tracklist:

01.Nighttown Boy
02.The Blind Can't Lead The Blind
03.Stars
04.We Bring The Summer With Us
05.Sunburst
06.Mad Pat
07.Blindman
08.King Of The Fairies
09.Lonely Hearts
10.The Best Years Of My Life



DANCEHALL SWEETHEARTS.

The songs that made up Dancehall Sweethearts (recorded and released the following year to the Tain, '74) were, as author Mark J Prendergast stated in his book Irish Rock - Roots, Personalities, Directions (The O'Brien Press), "...loosely based on the travels of Turlough Carolan, the late seventeenth-early eighteenth century blind Irish harper."

Written while on tour, recorded during the World Cup finals of '74 in Rockfield Studios in Wales and mixed in Kingsway Recorders in London, Dancehall Sweethearts is credited to a different producer than Alan O'Duffy who supervised the earlier albums. Fritz Fryer had been a member of '60s English hit group The Four Pennies.

It's said the album title and cover photo were a double digit salute to a record company marketing department which had voiced its nervousness at the prospect of having to sell a concept album about a deceased blind Irish harper to a public who craved Elton, Mud, Wings and Leo Sayer.

In her book "Bringing It All Back Home", The Influence of Irish Music (BBC Books), Nuala O'Connor captures something of the flavour of this period. "At home in Ireland the purists were horrified, the critics dismissive, and young audiences wildly approving. Horslips had set out to provide an indigenous rock idiom and for a while they achieved this. Philip Chevron, now a member of The Pogues, remembers growing up in Dublin in the sixties hating ballads and Irish music generally and then being struck by the Horslips' thunderbolt: "Irish music as officially presented didn't speak for me or thousands upon thousands like me. But Horslips did and some Horslips fans then went away and listened to Sean O'Riada records." Chevron himself was one of those drawn by the tradition that inspired the band."



STARS

Half of my lifetime spun between dance and light
Easy connections lost in the cold twilight
Clutching the powers that remain,
Searching for ways to turn them to gain I wrestle the devil alone
And turn, confused, to find
I'm lost in the air.

Then as we danced all the stars fell in the sea.

Torn between madness and the need to get away
Finding less reason to get better every day
And knowing fortune's a jade
Dismissing all the things she's made
I find myself alone,
A man obsessed with seeing things very clear.

Then as we danced all the stars fell in the sea.





Band:

Charles O'Connor - скрипка, мандолина, вокал, европейская арфа
Jim Lochart - клавишные, флейта, волынка
Barry Delvin - бас, вокал
Eamor Carr - ударные
Johnny Fean - гитара, банджо, флейта

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