The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #161140   Message #3826990
Posted By: Steve Shaw
16-Dec-16 - 08:17 PM
Thread Name: BS: Joe McCann
Subject: RE: BS: Joe McCann
I bought the album with that song on it, "The Iron Behind The Velvet," decades ago. It's by no means a Christy-on-his-own job, but I love it. It has Tony Linnane and Noel Hill, among many other great musicians, and I remember, in my stripling days, trying to play along with Andy Irvine's harmonica on Joe McCann. How the hell does he DO that! I did manage to master the reel Mullingar Races though. Christy has always had a penchant for political songs, which I love, but some were a bit too polemical for my taste. This one, though, is one of the best, both in sentiment and sheer quality.