I Kept These Old Blues Muireann Bradley SKU: TSQ4029 Barcode: 0850052454029 23.00 £23.00 Genre: Blues Label: Tompkins Square Released Date: 12th April 2024 Buying Format: 1LP Out of stock Back Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info Muireann Bradley is a young blues, ragtime, roots and folk guitarist and singer based in Ballybofey in County Donegal Ireland. “This is my first album. Most of these tunes were originally recorded by the great blues men and women who were making records from the 1920s and 1930s right up in some cases to the early 1970s. I have also found inspiration for the renditions recorded here in the playing of some of the musicians who began recording this music in the 1960s and later, and who in some cases learned at the feet of the greats. Many of these guitarists played pivotal roles in the 1960s blues revival and subsequent “rediscovery” of many of the greats of country blues. I grew up steeped in these old blues in the hills overlooking the valley of the River Finn just outside the town of Ballybofey in County Donegal. My father would play this music constantly at home and wherever we went in the car and talk about it endlessly whether anyone was listening or not, telling stories about the lives of these musicians as if they were legend, mythology or the evening news. My father could of course play all this stuff on guitar, I remember watching him when I was very young and thinking “I want to be able to do that”. When I was nine he agreed to teach me and bought me my first little travel guitar. I worked hard to learn how to play but as time wore on I seemed to have less and less time to practice as I became more and more invested in the combat sports I was regularly training and competing in. Then in March 2020 the first Covid lockdowns happened and all contact sports were shut down. I was lost for a while but soon found my way back to the guitar. I was now listening, playing and practicing with a new intensity and focus. In a very serious moment, I wrote out a list of tunes I was going to learn. The first tune on that list was Blind Blake’s “Police Dog Blues”. I’m not sure now how long it took to get that arrangement together but when it was ready we videoed me performing it and posted it on YouTube. It ended up getting a lot of attention, I remember my parents being quite shocked and soon after that Josh Rosenthal got in touch… and here we are! Each individual track on this album was recorded live in the studio and represents one entire take with me singing and backing myself up on guitar simultaneously. Most are either first or second takes. Nothing has been added or taken away, no overdubs or modern recording tricks of any kind have been used at all so at least in some respects this album has been recorded in the same way as those classics of the 1920s and 1930s.I hope you enjoy the record.” Muireann Bradley May 2023 Artist Muireann Bradley Genre Blues Label Tompkins Square Buying Options 1LP Format 1LP Condition New Country UK Track Listings Candyman Richland Woman Blues Police Dog Blues Shake Sugaree Vestapol Stagolee Green Green Rocky Road Frankie Police Sergeant Blues Buck Dancers Choice Delia Freight Train Share this On Facebook On Twitter Via Email More from Blues View Product Quick View T Model Ford Live At The Deep Blues 2008 Blues | Alive Records | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 23rd June 2023 £25.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders T Model Ford Live At The Deep Blues 2008 £25.00 Genre: Blues Label: Alive Records SKU: LPALIVE0226C Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 23rd June 2023 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Freddie King King on King Blues | Not Now Music | 180g, 2LP Released 1st October 2013 £22.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Freddie King King on King £22.00 Genre: Blues Label: Not Now Music SKU: LPNOT2LP185 Formats: 180g, 2LP Released Date: 1st October 2013 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Robert Pete Williams Louisiana Blues Blues | 4 Men With Beards | 180g, 1LP Released 30th August 2016 £27.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Robert Pete Williams Louisiana Blues £27.00 Genre: Blues Label: 4 Men With Beards SKU: 4M193LP Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 30th August 2016 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Various Artists The Rise & Fall Of Paramount Records Vol. 1 (1917 – 1920) Blues | Third Man Records / Revenant | Box Set Released 18th November 2013 £575.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Various Artists The Rise & Fall Of Paramount Records Vol. 1 (1917 – 1920) £575.00 Genre: Blues Label: Third Man Records / Revenant SKU: TMR203RVN215 Formats: Box Set Released Date: 18th November 2013 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Nearly New View Product Quick View Mick Fleetwood & Friends Celebrate The Music Of Peter Green And The Early Years Of Fleetwood Mac Blues | BMG | 4LP Released 8th April 2024 £36.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Mick Fleetwood & Friends Celebrate The Music Of Peter Green And The Early Years Of Fleetwood Mac £36.00 Genre: Blues Label: BMG SKU: nn284100 Formats: 4LP Released Date: 8th April 2024 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket View Product Quick View Buffalo Nichols Buffalo Nichols Blues | Fat Possum | 1LP Released 15th October 2021 £16.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Buffalo Nichols Buffalo Nichols £16.00 Genre: Blues Label: Fat Possum SKU: FP17901 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 15th October 2021 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Robert Johnson Rough Guide To Blues Legends Blues | Rough Guides | 180g, 1LP, Includes Download Code Released 1st November 2010 £10.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Robert Johnson Rough Guide To Blues Legends £10.00 Genre: Blues Label: Rough Guides SKU: RGNET1232LP Formats: 180g, 1LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 1st November 2010 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Mississippi Fred McDowell I Do Not Play No Rock and Roll Blues | Pure Pleasure | 180g, 1LP Released 11th May 2009 £34.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Mississippi Fred McDowell I Do Not Play No Rock and Roll £34.00 Genre: Blues Label: Pure Pleasure SKU: PPANST409 Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 11th May 2009 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View John Lee Hooker Im Going Home Blues | Devils Tunes | 1LP Released 9th October 2014 £17.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders John Lee Hooker Im Going Home £17.00 Genre: Blues Label: Devils Tunes SKU: DEVILP002 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 9th October 2014 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Keb Mo Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues Blues | Music On Vinyl | 180g, 2LP Released 27th May 2022 £32.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Keb Mo Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues £32.00 Genre: Blues Label: Music On Vinyl SKU: MOVLP2033 Formats: 180g, 2LP Released Date: 27th May 2022 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket See more in Blues Start again
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