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Andy Irvine and Paul Brady startled and stilled the folk world 35 years ago with their eponymous album. It was a graceful, low-key affair, but one that came bubble-wrapped in Irvine’s calculus-like rhythms and melodies, and both singers’ Arcadian vocals. Brady’s reading of
Arthur McBride
has never been matched, while
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Lough Erne Shore
and
Bonny Woodhall
stretched and bent Irvine and Brady’s musicianship in shapes that few would seek to emulate.
The duo first revisited the album a few years ago at Glasgow’s Celtic Connections. Chances are they have unpicked further the knottiness in the arrangements in anticipation of this weekend’s reunion.
