Tag: Sinéad O'Connor
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John Grant, Pale Green Ghosts, 2013 on Bella Union / Partisan Records
In the US on Partisan Records, elsewhere on Bella Union, this was John Grant’s second solo album, recorded in Reykjavik, with backing vocals from Sinéad O’Connor (credited as Mrs. John Grant). Grant is one of my favorite artists of last 15 years. He was in a band called the Czars in the 90s and first…
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Sinéad O’Connor, The Lion and the Cobra, 1987 on Chrysalis / Ensign
This was Sinéad’s debut album and is still just astonishingly great. The spoken word intro in gaelic by Enya before “Never Get Old” is Psalm 91: For He will give His angels charge over thee, To keep thee in all thy ways. They shall bear thee upon their hands, Lest thou dash thy foot against…
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Willie Nelson, Across The Borderline, 1993 on Columbia.
Willie Nelson, Across The Borderline, 1993 on Columbia. Recently issued on vinyl for the first time as part of Vinyl Me, Please’s 2022 anthology The Story of Willie Nelson. Love this LP – duets with Sinéad O’Connor on Peter Gabriel’s “Don’t Give Up” and Bonnie Raitt on “Getting Over You,” great cover of Dylan’s “What…
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Various Artists, Stay Awake (Various Interpretations of Music From Vintage Disney Films), 1988 on A&M.
Various Artists, Stay Awake (Various Interpretations of Music From Vintage Disney Films), 1988 on A&M. Loved this when it came out in 1988, and I think it’s even cooler now. Tom Waits, Suzanne Vega, Los Lobos, Natalie Merchant and Michael Stipe, Aaron Neville, The Replacements, Sinéad O’Connor, Nilsson, James Taylor. via Light of Day Records…