A Woman's Heart Trilogy / Сердце женщины / 3 CD
Жанр: Folk
Носитель: CD
Страна-производитель диска (релиза): Island
Год издания: 2010
Издатель (лейбл): Dara
Номер по каталогу: TORTV 3CD 1161
Аудиокодек: FLAC (*.flac)
Тип рипа: image+.cue
Битрейт аудио: lossless
Продолжительность: 2:10:00
Источник (релизер): собственный рип
Наличие сканов в содержимом раздачи: да
A Woman's Heart
1. Only A Woman's Heart - Eleanor McEvoy
2. Caledonia - Dolores Keane
3. Vanities - Mary Black
4. Blackbird - Sharon Shannon
5. Wall Of Tears - Frances Black
6. Summerfly - Maura O'Connell
7. The Island - Dolores Keane
8. I Hear You Breathing In - Eleanor McEvoy
9. Sonny - Mary Black
10. Coridinio - Sharon Shannon
11. Living In These Troubled Times - Maura O'Connell
12. After The Ball - Frances Black
A Woman's Heart 2
1. Sailing By - Siniad Lohan
2. Talk To Me While I'm Listening - Frances Black
3. Invisible - Mary Coughlan
4. Saw You Running - Mary Black
5. Never Be The Sun - Dolores Keane
6. Bungee Jumpers - Sharon Shannon
7. Trouble In The Fields - Maura O'Connell
8. Don't Explain - Mary Black
9. Three Babies - Sinead O'Connor
10. Solid Ground - Dolores Keane
11. A Mhaithrin Dhileas - Maighread Ni Dhomhnaill
12. Fear Is The Enemy - Frances Black
13. I Can't Make You Love Me - Mary Coughlan
14. Sparky - Sharon Shannon
15. Western Highway - Maura O'Connell
16. If I Gave My Heart To You - Mary Black
A Woman's Heart: A Decade On
1. This is to Mother You - Sinead O'Connor
2. I Know My Love - The Corrs and The Chieftains
3. Poison Tree - Marcia Howard and Mary Black
4. 24 Hours - Frances Black
5. To Ramona - Sinead Lohan
6. Fields of Gold - Eva Cassidy
7. Spanish Lady - Maighread and Triona Ni Dhomhnaill
8. Lark In The Clear Air - Cara Dillon
9. Bless the Road - Mary Black
10. Sorry To Say - Juliet Turner
11. The White Strand Sling - Sharon Shannon
12. Carrick-a-rede - Cathie Ryan
13. Where Have All The Flowers Gone - Dolores Keane and Tommy Sands
14. Please Heart, You're Killing Me - Eleanor McEvoy
15. Sweet By and By - Dolly Parton and Altan
16. Wild and Free - Mary Coughlan and Cafi Orchestra
17. Mystic Lipstick - Maura O'Connell
18. Down To The River To Pray - Alison Kraus
Лог создания рипа
A Woman's Heart
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Отчёт EAC об извлечении, выполненном 20. октября 2013, 2:17
A woman's heart
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A Woman's Heart 2
Exact Audio Copy V1.0 beta 3 from 29. August 2011
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A woman's heart 2
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Заполнение пропущенных сэмплов тишиной : Да
Удаление блоков с тишиной в начале и конце : Нет
При вычислениях CRC использовались нулевые сэмплы : Да
Интерфейс : Встроенный Win32-интерфейс для Win NT/2000
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Конец отчёта
A Woman's Heart: A Decade On
Exact Audio Copy V1.0 beta 3 from 29. August 2011
Отчёт EAC об извлечении, выполненном 21. октября 2013, 22:01
A Woman's Heart. A Decade On
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Коррекция смещения при чтении : 667
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Заполнение пропущенных сэмплов тишиной : Да
Удаление блоков с тишиной в начале и конце : Нет
При вычислениях CRC использовались нулевые сэмплы : Да
Интерфейс : Встроенный Win32-интерфейс для Win NT/2000
Выходной формат : Пользовательский кодировщик
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Конец отчёта
Содержание индексной карты (.CUE)
A Woman's Heart
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TITLE "Caledonia - Dolores Keane"
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TITLE "Coridinio - Sharon Shannon"
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A Woman's Heart 2
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TITLE "Talk To Me While I'm Listening - Frances Black"
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TITLE "Solid Ground - Dolores Keane"
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TITLE "A Mhaithrin Dhileas - Maighread Ni Dhomhnaill"
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TITLE "If I Gave My Heart To You - Mary Black"
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A Woman's Heart: A Decade On
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Дополнительная информация
A Woman's Heart Trilogy
Audio CD (February 1, 2004)
Original Release Date: 2010
Music has always been key to much of our identity. Although we like to think of ourselves as natural born literary geniuses, the tug of the reel, the jig and the hornpipe has always been hard to resist. And we’ve often chosen songs to tell our stories, share our sorrows, celebrate our victories. In fact, song tales have long navigated a path back and forth across the North Sea, the Atlantic and the Pacific, often returning metamorphosed into shapes virtually unrecognisable, courtesy of their cross-fertilisation by other cultures, other voices.
Curiously though - or perhaps not, given the male dominance of the twin pursuits of (his)tory and politics in this country - women’s role in singing and storytelling has been undervalued and underestimated. Nuala O'Connor’s re-tracing of Irish songlines in the encyclopaedic Bringing It All Back Home refocused the spotlight on the role of singers such as Sara Makem, Rita and Sarah Keane in passing the stories on, investing in them emotionally in a way that the words held their own alongside and within the tune.
The early 90’s was a fertile breeding grouru m whip;- to toster and cosset songs. and stories. It was a happy collision of serendipity anc common sense that leo to the recording of A Woman's Heart What started out as a simple Dara Records folk compilation evolved Into an alternate collection of songs and singers. Mary Biacks desire to include a track from a young, and then largely unknown singer by the name of Eleanor McEvoy not only provided the project with a title track, but helped define the essence of the collection: a gathering of women musicians, representative of the cross currents of the Irish folk and traditional music scene at the time: a virtual snapshot in time, a freeze-frame that distilled the music to its essence.
It was a select congregation: Dolores Keane, Mary Black, Frances Black. Eleanor McEvoy and Maura O’Connell were kept company by the sole instrumentalist in the pack, one Sharon Shannon, accordion-meister beyond compare. It was a neadv mix of the political (‘Living In These Troubled Times’, The Island’), the romantic/historicai (‘Caledonia’. ‘Sonny’) and the unapologeticaliy love-scarred (Waik Of Tears’ and ‘Vanities’), all wrapped up in the delicious exoticism of Shannon s Portuguese ‘Coridinio’.
A Woman’s Heart 2 burst on to the stage some two years later, in 1994, fired by new arrivals including the two Sineads, Lohan and O’Connor, Mary Coughlan and Maighread Ni Dhomhnaili. This time round their repertoire had expanded to embrace Lohan’s refreshingly evocative songwriting (‘Sailing By’), Coughlan’s characteristically laid back vocals (complemented by Kirsty McColl) on Invisible', Maighread Ni Dhomhnaili’s glass-shattering reading of the traditional cautionary tale, ‘A Mhaithrin Dhileas’ and the politically and emotionally-charged ‘Three Babies’ from Sinead O'Connor. Looking back on the gloriously eclectic gathering of songs and tunes, one can see that WH2 was in fact a timely barometer of a changing Ireland - a place in which a climate of openness and conciliation was promoted both by this country’s women recording artists, and by an increasingly demanding (and informed) listenership.
A decade on heralded another time, another place, and another century. And the release of A Woman’s Heart - A Decade On reflected those changing times in its landscape and its line-up. At a time when Ireland was chafing to come to terms with multiculturalism, having to square off its willingness to export not only its labour but its so-called ‘problems’ to foreign lands, with an unprecedented turning of the emigration tide, so too the music began to reflect a more complex palette: a richer territory was there to be mined, and A Woman’s Heart - A Decade On embraced the diversity with relish.
And so the stage expanded even further. Juliet Turner and Cara Dillon contributed two vastly divergent Northern strands; Turner lending the blackly humourous ‘Sorry To Say’, while Dillon brought her bare naked vocals to the traditional 'The Lark In The Clear Air’. Mary Coughlan’s free-spiritedness was matched by The Café Orchestra on the aptly titled ‘Wild And Free’, Dolores Keane and Tommy Sands bravely tackled the Pete Seeger standard, ‘Where Have All The Rowers Gone’, and made it their own, and Altan’s Mairéad Ni Mhaonaigh teamed up with Dolly Parton on the American traditional ‘In The Sweet By And By’. And to top it all, Alison Krauss, fresh from the underground success of the 0 Brother Where Art Thou? soundtrack, wisely leant ‘Down To The River To Pray’, a gospel song sitting effortlessly within an Irish, Appalachian and British song cycle that stretched its lithe frame across boundaries with the confidence of one well-versed in the fine art of multi-lingualism.
And somewhere, yes, somewhere lurking within was a re-interpretation of the song that christened the entire adventure a decade earlier. This time round, Emmylou Harris sidled up alongside Mary Black to embellish the gene pool and renew its energies.
Three albums, 47 songs and tunes, and a plethora of X chromosomes the driving force. Not a bad way to strike a balance...
