(Folk) Mary Black - Speaking With The Angel - 1999, FLAC (tracks), lossless

Donal Lunny - guitar, acoustic & electric bouzouki, background vocals
Mary Black - vocals, bodhran
Frank Gallagher - fiddle, viola, low whistle
Steve Cooney - acoustic & electric guitars, didjerido, acoustic & electric basses, percussion
Liam Bradley - drums, tambourine, background vocals
Noel Bridgeman - percussion, background vocals
Liam O Maonlai - background vocals
Pat Crowley - accordion, acoustic & electric pianos, Hammond organ, keyboards, background vocals
Bill Shanley - acoustic, electric & hi-strung guitars, background vocals
Liam O Flynn - Uileann pipes, whistle
Rod Quinn - drums, percussion
James Blennerhasset - acoustic & electric basses
Alvin Sweeney

Ever since she left 'De Dannan' to begin her solo career in 1987, Mary Black has experimented with finding the proper balance of folk and pop to best suit her magnificent voice. Speaking with the Angel, which includes songs by Dougie MacLean, John Gorka, Sting, Ron Sexsmith, and the folkie's favorite songwriter Anonymous, gets the ratio just about right.
The CD includes uptempo pop ditties such as "Message of Love" and "Big Trip to Portland"; smoky, jazz-inflected songs like "Fall at Your Feet"; and of course a good sampling of folk songs like "Turning Away" and "I Live Not Where I Love." On her late-'90s albums Black abandoned her familiar folk-inspired arrangements in favor of a slick, pop sound, but here she has
enlisted the help of famed Celtic music producer Donal Lunny, who worked on five songs, to help keep her music from straying too far from its roots.
Speaking with the Angel is a CD full of strong performances, but perhaps the most moving is "Moments," a tribute to Sandy Denny, a singer Black still turns to for inspiration more than two decades after her untimely death.
- Amazon Review -

REM GENRE Folk
REM DATE 1999
REM DISCID A50C180C
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PERFORMER "Mary Black"
TITLE "Speaking With The Angel"
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    PERFORMER "Mary Black"
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    TITLE "Cut by Wire"
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    TITLE "Don't Say Okay"
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    INDEX 00 04:25:32
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  TRACK 04 AUDIO
    TITLE "Bless the Road"
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  TRACK 05 AUDIO
    TITLE "Broken Wings"
    PERFORMER "Mary Black"
    INDEX 00 03:40:68
FILE "Mary Black\[1999] Speaking With The Angel\05 - Broken Wings.wav" WAVE
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  TRACK 06 AUDIO
    TITLE "Fall at Your Feet"
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FILE "Mary Black\[1999] Speaking With The Angel\06 - Fall at Your Feet.wav" WAVE
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  TRACK 07 AUDIO
    TITLE "Message of Love"
    PERFORMER "Mary Black"
    INDEX 00 03:34:40
FILE "Mary Black\[1999] Speaking With The Angel\07 - Message of Love.wav" WAVE
    INDEX 01 00:00:00
  TRACK 08 AUDIO
    TITLE "Moments"
    PERFORMER "Mary Black"
    INDEX 00 04:00:55
FILE "Mary Black\[1999] Speaking With The Angel\08 - Moments.wav" WAVE
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    TITLE "Speaking with the Angel"
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FILE "Mary Black\[1999] Speaking With The Angel\09 - Speaking with the Angel.wav" WAVE
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  TRACK 10 AUDIO
    TITLE "Big Trip to Portland"
    PERFORMER "Mary Black"
    INDEX 00 03:23:10
FILE "Mary Black\[1999] Speaking With The Angel\10 - Big Trip to Portland.wav" WAVE
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  TRACK 11 AUDIO
    TITLE "I Live Not Where I Love"
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FILE "Mary Black\[1999] Speaking With The Angel\11 - I Live Not Where I Love.wav" WAVE
    INDEX 01 00:00:00
  TRACK 12 AUDIO
    TITLE "Fields of Gold"
    PERFORMER "Mary Black"
    INDEX 00 04:50:33
FILE "Mary Black\[1999] Speaking With The Angel\12 - Fields of Gold.wav" WAVE
    INDEX 01 00:00:00

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Mary Black / Speaking With The Angel
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