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Released
  
1998

Release date
  
1998

Genres
  
Blues, Country music

Artist
  
Bap Kennedy

Label
  
Lonely Street Discs

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Producer
  
Steve Earle & Ray Kennedy

Domestic Blues (1998)
  
Hillbilly Shakespeare (1999)

Similar
  
The Sailor's Revenge, Howl On, HillBilly Shakespeare, Lonely Street, The Big Picture

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Domestic Blues was the first solo album from Northern Ireland based singer-songwriter, Bap Kennedy, and was released in 1998. The album was generally well-received, with allmusic calling it "an exceptionally intelligent recording" and Uncut saying that "[Domestic Blues is] a fine collection of songs" and reached number 8 in the billboard Americana chart

Contents

Bap kennedy unforgiven prod by steve earle


Recording

The album was recorded in Nashville, TN. Kennedy had received a phone call from country music legend Steve Earle inviting him to come to Nashville and record an album, to be released on Earle's short-lived record label E-squared. The album was produced by Earle and Ray Kennedy, and featured several renowned session musicians, such as Peter Rowan and Jerry Douglas.

Track listing

  1. "Long Time A Comin'" - 2:38
  2. "The Way I Love Her" - 3:30
  3. "Unforgiven" - 3:37
  4. "Domestic Blues" - 2:57
  5. "I've Fallen In Love" - 3:21
  6. "Vampire" - 2:36
  7. "Angel Is The Devil" - Steve Earle - 2:50
  8. "The Backroom" - 3:20
  9. "Mostly Water" - 3:20
  10. "The Ghosts of Belfast" - 2:51
  11. "My Money" - 3:15
  12. "The Shankill and the Falls" - 2:46

UK Special Edition version

The album was re-released in a "special edition" form in the UK in 2000. The special edition had a different album cover, featuring a photograph of Kennedy's mother as a child, and contained 2 extra tracks, Lowlife and Dream of You. The latter included Kennedy playing the Ewan MacColl song Dirty Old Town as a hidden track.

Personnel

Musicians
  • Bap Kennedy - acoustic guitar and vocals on all tracks
  • Roy Huskey, Jr. - upright bass on all tracks
  • Peter Rowan - mandolin on all tracks except 2, 4, 5 and 14 backing vocals on tracks 1, 2, 5, 7, 10 and 11, mandola on track 2, classical guitar on tracks 3, 5 and 14
  • Jerry Douglas - dobro on all tracks except 4, 10 and 13, lap steel on tracks 4, 10, 12 and 13
  • Steve Earle - acoustic guitar on all tracks except 3, 8 and 10, High-string guitar on track 2, archtop guitar, on track 2, 12-string guitar on tracks 3, 8 and 10, backing vocals on tracks 4 and 6
  • Larry Atamanuik - drums/percussion on all tracks except 4, 8, 9 and 12, hammond on track 9
  • Michael Smotherman - hammond on track 3, drums on track 8
  • Nancy Blake - cello on tracks 5 and 12, fiddle on track 7
  • Ray Kennedy - backing vocals on track 5
  • Nanci Griffith - backing vocals on track2 10 and 12
  • Keith Weir - piano on tracks 6, 7 and 11
  • Dan Gillis - tin whistle on track 10
  • Paul Guerin - lead guitar on tracks 13 and 14
    • Production
  • Steve Earle - Production and engineering
  • Ray Kennedy - production, engineering and recording
  • Patrick Earle - assistant engineering
  • Hank Williams - mastering

    • (Please note that this Hank Williams is of no relation to the singer-songwriter Hank Williams)

    Songs

    1Long Time a Comin'2:38
    2The Way I Love Her3:31
    3Unforgiven3:39

    References

    Domestic Blues Wikipedia
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