Filed under: Related | Tags: Alan Kelly Gang, CD, Eddi Reader, Kris Drever, Music, Trashcan Sinatras
…is Alan Kelly’s self-produced, 3rd solo album – a superb collection of Irish Traditional, original, Breton and Galician music. Alan Kelly is regarded as one of Ireland’s most accomplished musicians in any genre, he is a composer, arranger and piano accordionist and also a regular performer on the traditional and folk music scene.
Guest vocalists on the album include Kris Drever and Eddi Reader, where the latter sings like a bird on John Douglas’ tribute to Robert Burns, ‘I Hung My Harp Upon the Willows’ – which as you know appeared on the Trashcans’ last LP, ‘In The Music’.
It’s a very different version of the song and has a countryish feel with piano accordion, double bass (John plays geetar by the way), and Eddi’s singing is, as ever, truly engaging.
It’s a belter!
2009 Black Box Music BBM004
Filed under: Related | Tags: Hard-to-Find, Import, Music, Promo, Trashcan Sinatras
This ‘Best of Trashcan Sinatras’ is basically a bootleg CD, albeit a band-approved one, and was put together for USA radio for the March 2011 tour.
There were around 100 made and sent out to various radio stations. The band’s tour manager, Ben Marts and sound guy Sean got together and ‘remastered’ some of the tracks, trimmed some of the songs and changed some levels to fit it all on the disc. To be honest, I can’t tell the difference.
The artwork was put together by Shane Locke, although by his own admission – not to his usual high standards.
A copy of this CD made it onto eBay and was sold for just over $200 – obviously bought by a TCS die-hard – and caused a fair amount of discussion on the band’s forum.
That’s about it really. All the best for now…
2011 BoTSpro-1
That’s how I’d describe Eddi Reader’s ‘Live In Japan’ album.
Recorded at Billboard Live shows, Japan in September of 2009, this CD covers a wide selection of her career highs, from Fairground Attraction’s, ‘Perfect’, all the way to the recent Love is the Way. It’s a great album with stunning and haunting vocals and the crowd participation is worth the purchase fee alone. In fact, the album closes with a Japanese children’s song, Usagi, sung a cappella with the audience.
Eddi is joined by regular band members Roy Dodds, Boo Hewerdine, Alan Kelly, Kevin McGuire and I have it on good authority that the Trashcans John Douglas is ‘all over it’.
Magical!
2010 Eddi Reader ERCD01
Filed under: 1990-1991 Cake | Tags: Hard-to-Find, Music, Promo, Trashcan Sinatras, Vinyl
No help required!
Here’s the very rare 12″ promo for debut single, ‘Obscurity Knocks’. A very simple piece with a big letter A on one side of the white labels – good effort Go! Discs.
The plain black sleeve comes complete with a promo label. And that’s about it really.
Except to say that the A side is inscribed with the legend, ‘Youthenasia’
1990 Go! Discs GODX34
Filed under: 1990-1991 Cake | Tags: Cassette, Hard-to-Find, Import, Music, Promo, Trashcan Sinatras
Here’s a cassette version of debut album, ‘Cake’, all the way from Bangkok.
There’s not much to say about it though. The tape and the inner J-card is much different from the regular release as you would expect. I can’t imagine it would have been released in any great quantities in Thailand.
Nice all the same.
1990 Go! Discs/Polygram Records 828 201-4 Follow @fivehungryjoes
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