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Discography
(to buy an
album, please click on the cover)
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THE HOUSE OF ILL REPUTE 2008
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THE BEST
2004
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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.
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Red Blues
2002
Iwas 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…. |
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LONG HONEYMOON
2001 |
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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. |
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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 label that Richard Branson was
setting up.
Well I thought, there is a God Yippee... 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
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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…
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LOVE FOR SALE
1993 |
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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….
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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
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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.
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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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©
2008 Mary
Coughlan
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