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The Tracks of Sweeney

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Released
  
1969

Release date
  
1969

Label
  
Sanctuary Records

Artist
  
Sweeney's Men

Producer
  
Bill Leader

Genre
  
Celtic music

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Recorded
  
Livingstone Studios, Barnet in 1969

The Tracks of Sweeney is an album by Sweeney's Men. It was first released in 1969 and re-released on CD in 1996, packaged together with Sweeney's Men. One track on this album is frequently anthologised: "Hall of Mirrors". It is possibly the best folk-acoustic psychedelic Irish song, with mysterious images and echoes. The opening track "Dreams For Me" is another outstanding track, with an insistent guitar bass which transforms into a polka and back to a lament. "Afterthoughts" appears to show the influence of Nick Drake, but it is unlikely that Woods had heard songs from Drake's first album, released later in 1969.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Dreams For Me" (Terry Woods)
  2. "The Pipe On The Hob" (instr) (Trad)
  3. "Brain Jam" (Terry Woods)
  4. "Pretty Polly" (Trad)
  5. "Standing On The Shore" (Trad)
  6. "A Mistake No Doubt" (Henry McCullagh/ Terry Woods)
  7. "Go By Brooks" (Cohen)
  8. "When You Don't Cry" (Terry Woods)
  9. "Afterthoughts" (Terry Woods)
  10. "Hiram Hubbard" (Trad)
  11. "Hall Of Mirrors" (Henry McCullagh)

Personnel

  • Johnny Moynihan - vocal, bouzouki, tin whistle
  • Terry Woods - vocals, 6-string guitar, 12-string guitar, banjo, concertina

    • Songs

    1Rattlin' Roarin' Willy2:28
    2Sullivan's John3:17
    3Sally Brown2:24

    References

    The Tracks of Sweeney Wikipedia
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