Bringing It All Back Home, Vol. 1 [Valley]

• Artist: Various Artists
• Release Date: 1994
• Total Time: 64:11
• Type: Collection (various artists)
• Genre: World

Review

Bringing It All Back Home, Vol. 1 is the first of three volumes of Irish and Irish-related music "produced in conjunction with a BBC television documentary of the same name, " as the sleeve note puts it, but not billed as a soundtrack. "The Influence of Irish Music, " reads an album cover subtitle, and that provides a key to the contents, which combine traditional and original Irish music played by Irish artists such as Hothouse Flowers, De Danann, and the Clancy Brothers with songs in the Irish tradition but sometimes performed by international artists, such as Richard Thompson ("The Dimming of the Day") and the Everly Brothers ("Rose Connolly"). The music is newly recorded for the most part, and the mixture gives a broad sense of the range of Irish music and its descendants. The dark side of the spread of the music, however, is the diaspora that helped bring it about, a subject touched upon in the song lyrics, especially Mick Moloney, Jimmy Keane, and Robbie O'Connell's performance of Peter Jones' "Kilkelly," an epistolary tale of emigration that virtually anyone of Irish descent won't be able to listen to without crying. Part of the attraction of Irish music, of course, is its appeal to the emotions, and that characteristic is present here in abundance. ~ William Ruhlmann, All Music Guide

Tracks

Track Title	Composers	Performers	Time
April the 3rd	Dónal Lunny	Dónal Lunny	(4:33)
Nothing but the Same Old Story	Paul Brady	Paul Brady	(5:12)
Sonny	Ron Hynes	Dolores Keane, Emmylou Harris, Mary Black	(4:14)
Rose Connolly	Roy Acuff, Charlie Monroe	The Everly Brothers	(3:16)
Griffins, Kevin	Traditional	Sharon Shannon, Mary Custy	(3:28)
When First into This Country	Traditional	Lee Valley String Band	(3:03)
No Frontiers	Jimmy MacCarthy	Mary Black	(4:13)
Idir Eatarthu/Between Worlds		Irish Chamber Orchestra	(3:14)
Lakes of Ponchartrain	Traditional	Hothouse Flowers	(8:02)
Humours of Galway	Traditional	De Danann	(3:31)
Dimming of the Day (Lyrics)	Richard Thompson	Dolores Keane, Mary Black, Richard Thompson	(3:39)
Shoals of Herring	Ewan MacColl	Clancy Brothers	(4:00)
Kilkelly	Peter Jones	Mick Moloney, Robbie O'Connell, Jimmy Keane	(6:52)
Western Highway	Gerry O'Beirne	Maura O'Connell	(3:40)
The Parting Glass	Traditional	The Voice Squad	(3:14)

Credits

Tony Molloy (Bass), Sharon Shannon (Performer), Bob Wynne (Design), Emmylou Harris (?), Emmylou Harris (Vocals), Pat Crowley (Accordion), Donny Lunal (Producer), Sinead Hanna (Assistant), Mick Maloney (Performer), Noel Eccles (Percussion), Michael O'Suilleabhain (Performer), Liam O'Flynn (Uillean Pipes), Colm Murphy (Bodhran), Bruce Talbot (Original Executive Producer), Mary Custy (Fiddle), Nollaig Casey (Fiddle), Dolores Keane (?), Sharon Shannon (Arranger), Mary Black (Performer), Mary Custy (Performer), Hothouse Flowers (Performer), Dónal Lunny (Producer), Paul Brady (Vocals), Sharon Shannon (Accordion), Dolores Keane (Vocals), Ronan Browne (Uillean Pipes), Mark O'Connor (Fiddle), Alec Finn (Bouzouki), Dónal Lunny (?), De Danann (Performer), Hothouse Flowers (Arranger), Dolores Keane (Performer), Michael O'Suilleabhain (Arranger), The Voice Squad (Performer), Irish Chamber Orchestra (Performer), Clancy Brothers (Performer), James Delaney (Keyboards), Nuala O'Connor (Liner Notes), Anto Drennan (Guitar (Electric)), Jimmy Keane (Performer), Richard Thompson (?), Emmylou Harris (Performer), Roy M. "Junior" Husky (Bass), The Everly Brothers (Performer), Andrew Boland (Engineer), Paul Brady (Guitar (Acoustic)), Sinead Hanna (Assistant Engineer), Eoghan O'Neill (Arranger), Dónal Lunny (Bodhran), Declan Sinnott (Guitar), A.N. (Guitar (Electric)), Maura O'Connell (Performer), Bruce Talbot (Executive Producer), Lee Valley String Band (Arranger), Mary Black (?), Mary Custy (Arranger), Mary Black (Vocals), De Danann (Arranger), Michael O'Suilleabhain (Piano), Richard Thompson (Performer), The Voice Squad (Arranger), Dónal Lunny (Bouzouki), Tom Hayes (Bodhran), Bob Wynne (Art Direction), Frankie Gavin (Fiddle), Davy Spillane (Uillean Pipes), Paul Moran (Percussion), Robbie O'Connell (Performer), Hothouse Flowers (?)