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Nobody Knows: the Best of Paul Brady
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Track Listing
- Nobody Knows
- World Is What You Make It
- Paradise Is Here
- Nothing But The Same Old Story
- Lakes Of Pontchartrain+D2221
- Trick Or Treat
- Trust In You
- Not The Only One
- Island
- Crazy Dreams
- Follow On
- Just In Time
- Homes Of Donegal
- Arthur McBride
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #93053 in Music
- Released on: 2002-04-01
- Number of discs: 1
Editorial Reviews
Amazon.co.uk Review
Paul Brady can be forgiven the dry complaint of this anthology's title: his long arc through Irish folk and rock has made fans of Mark Knopfler, Bonnie Raitt, Tina Turner, and Bob Dylan, while Brady's songs and fleet guitar have popped up on an impressive array of albums. Despite that pedigree, and Brady's distinctively reedy, supple tenor, his own albums have remained woefully underexposed, making Nobody Knows a revelation for newcomers. The set mirrors Brady's path from traditional Irish folk music in the 1970s through forceful and impassioned folk-rock to a softer mainstream pop style in the '80s. His folk craft surfaces here in two beautifully realised new recordings--"The Lakes of Pontchartrain" and "Arthur McBride". The more orchestral sweep of Brady's pop-slanted work shines on the title track, "Trick or Treat" (featuring Raitt), and "Not the Only One", which typify his elegant, mature romanticism. Ultimately, though, his most galvanic performance--and haunting lyric--erupts with "Nothing but the Same Old Story" from 1981's brilliant Hard Station, chronicling the archetypal immigrant experience of an Irish wanderer whose dreams of fortune and freedom are crushed by alcoholism, poverty, and prejudice. The song attains a perfect balance between its kinetic rock arrangement, rich narrative detail, and Brady's desperate, angry, sorrowful voice. --Sam Sutherland
Customer Reviews
The perfect intro to paul brady
This album, for the uninitiated is what i would call the perfect introduction to paul brady. Throughout his career brady has been wowing audiences with his own brand of music from planxty through to the solo stuff. considering he is from strabane (we all have our crosses to bear) he has still made his mark all over the world from tina turner (snigger) to bonnie raitt(ho-hum), but it is a sign that the man is a fantastic songwriter when even dylan rates him. if he is good enough for bob he should be good enough for YOU. any irish man who has ever worked the sites in london will know that it really is Nothing But The Same Old Story.
BUY IT TODAY.
you will not regret it.
