Basia - London, Warsaw, New York, a lovely distinct vocal style.
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Now playing…
Planxty - Cold Blow And The Rainy Night
Christy Moore (Vocals, Guitar, Bodhrán, Harmonium), Andy Irvine (Vocals, Mandolin, Irish Bouzouki, Harmonica, Hurdy Gurdy, Dulcimer), Dónal Lunny (Guitar, Bouzouki, Portative Organ, Bodhrán), Johnny Moynihan (Vocals, Bouzouki, Fiddle, Tin Whistle) and Liam O’Flynn (Uilleann Pipes, Tin Whistle)
Streaming on Qobuz (44.1/16)… a recommendation from a friend of my wife who lives in Belfast, they were nurses working in Boston back in the late 70’s and have kept in touch over the years. So taking Planxty out for a spin for the first time and they are sounding mighty fine!
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Great choice sk, they were the band that modernised Irish folk, before Donal Lunny and Christy Moore went on to form Moving Hearts and rock it up. Great music.
Edited to add - I think you may have played the Declan Sinnott albums I played a while ago, in which case try Moving Hearts, Christy and Donal from Planxty, Deccy Sinnott on guitar, and the great piper Davey Spillane. Celtic rock played by the best.
(Edited again to correct the piper.)
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Trombone for the afternoon:
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Moving Hearts - Live Hearts - 1983 vinyl
Celtic rock at its best, heavily rocked up instrumental and vocal numbers, Christy wasn’t in the band by this time, but Donal Lunny, Davey Spillane, Declan Sinnott are all masters of their instruments. I saw them around this time, might even have been this gig.
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I have the CD single of Sunrise from Simply Reds Home release which brilliantly samples Hall and Oats I Can’t Go For That. Must get it off the shelf for a spin later today! 
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Okay Kev, you’ve peaked my interest. Had to go and look that up and it’s now in my library on Qobuz…
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Rainbow On Stage
The song ‘Over the Rainbow’ was mentioned in an article on the Today programme this morning on BBC Radio 4, so no further excuse was needed. A nice hard rock start to the day and the week.
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Essential Classics on R3. Suzy Klein has returned. She sounds a bit bunged up. Music good though. She tells us it’s something like her, starting slowly and building up.
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As it happens I’ve ordered a Matrix Element I to use as a streaming headphone DAC. 
Ange (wife) is petrified of offending the neighbours… the telly is turned down so low we have the subtitles on all the time.
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