Discography (to buy an album, please click on the cover)
	THE BEST 2004 I’ve been back to NZ and OZ 5 times in the past 2 years, and started there to work on a new album with Erik. It’s going to be brilliant and we hope to finish it and release it in 2007.		Live at The Basement 2003 I was busy working my way round the world, and was invited to New Zealand, to do some gigs with the wonderful pianist James Delaney. I phoned my daughter who lived in Sydney, and asked her to find me a gig in Sydney, so I could visit. A venue called The Basement decided to take a chance, and in a matter of hours sold out 4 nights, and we recorded it.
	Red Blues 2002 I was working in Germany with Volker and Petra from Tradition and Moderne Musik. During a week off I went into a small studio, with a bunch of great guys I’d just met who were working with Taj Mahal. I downloaded a bunch of lyrics of songs I liked but didn’t know, and recorded and mixed a new album in 7 days….		LONG HONEYMOON 2001
	Mary Coughlan sings Billie Holliday 2000 Back to my own devices, I always wanted to sing Billie, and in fact sneaked a couple in over the years. The idea of a show came about. It was very successful, and the obvious thing to do was record it… Peter O Brien arranged, a big band played, and I sang my heart out… again.		After the Fall 1997 I met Steve Abbott (abbo) from Big Cat records and he told me he wanted to sign me for a new lable that Richard Branson was setting up.  Well I thought, there is a God Yipee... After the Fall is the finest (in my opinion) work I’ve done and also Erik’s. I embraced this new chance completely and with my 7-week-old son under my arm I set off touring again… In USA Rolling Stone and Billboard hailed it as a masterpiece, and both put it in their top ten albums of the year.
	Live in Galway 1996 Pure joy …sober and working, I decided when tickets for 8 gigs in Galway sold out, that I would somehow get the money together and record the gigs. Erik was there again, Aiden Reade recorded and Ollie Longhair made the gigs sound great. A truly wonderful week …such a buzz…		LOVE FOR SALE 1993
	SENTIMENTAL KILLER 1992 When the WEA formula (money and air brushed photos) didn’t work it was back to Mary and Erik, and to way we do things. We were happy again, great songs from Johnny Mulhern…. The Magdalen Laundry and Marc Almond’s: There is a Bed. Great stuff, great band too, touring was so much fun….		Uncertain Pleasures 1990 This is painful for me to talk about… It should have been the best time i.e. big deal with an International (WEA) but they had a plan for me and it didn’t include Erik or any of the songs I wanted to sing. On the other hand I got to work with Pete Glennister, Kirsty McColl, Danny Thompson and Mark e Nevin who wrote A Leaf from a Tree, which still breaks my heart every time I sing it.
	Under The Influence 1987 This was such a wonderful time for me... I knew what I was doing musically. I had settled into to very comfortable place with Erik Visser producing and writing Johnny Mulherns masterpiece Ice Cream Man… I was working and touring and loving it, I was rocking.		TIRED AND EMOTIONAL 1985 Recorded in Headford in Galway in 1985. I had never been in a recording studio, I was so excited to be working with producer Erik Visser and was amazed by the whole process. It was released in Dec 1985, Mark Cagney started to play it on RTE, and by Jan 1986 it was at the top of album charts

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