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Heard A Long Gone Song
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Heard A Long Gone Song
Artist
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Lisa O'Neill
Label
River Lea Recordings
Catalogue Number
RLR001DA
Release Date
October 26, 2018

Lisa O’Neill grew up in Ballyhaise, County Cavan and now lives in Dublin. Heard A Long Gone Song, her first album for Rough Trade imprint River Lea is a collection of traditional material interspersed with her own. The sense of ownership Lisa imbues in these old songs, coupled with the immutability of her chosen subjects makes it hard to tell which is which.

These are folk songs in the original sense of the word. The album begins with an entirely unaccompanied rendition of The Galway Shawl, first collected in 1936 but made famous by Alan Lomax’s 1956 recording of the great Margaret Barry. Lisa’s remarkable and unconstrained delivery of this popular Irish street ballad is like hearing it for the first time. It’s followed by the slow-building menace of Along The North Strand, a version of Lady Isabel And The Elf Knight collected from a Traveller singer named Kitty Cassidy.

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Digital Tracklist

  1. 1 The Galway Shawl 3:57 Buy

    The Galway Shawl

  2. 2 Along the North Strand 7:53 Buy

    Along the North Strand

  3. 3 Blackbird 3:14 Buy

    Blackbird

  4. 4 The Lass of Aughrim 2:11 Buy

    The Lass of Aughrim

  5. 5 Violet Gibson 4:58 Buy

    Violet Gibson

  6. 6 The Factory Girl 6:32 Buy

    The Factory Girl

  7. 7 Rock the Machine 5:16 Buy

    Rock the Machine

  8. 8 A Year Shy of Three 7:13 Buy

    A Year Shy of Three

  9. 9 Lullaby of London 3:04 Buy

    Lullaby of London

Lisa O'Neill

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