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Thread #61676 Message #992713
Posted By: GUEST,Tunesmith
29-Jul-03 - 03:43 PM
Thread Name: Paul Brady Information
Subject: Paul Brady - Why?
Yesterday I heard a few tracks from Paul Brady's new live album, and it convinced me that Paul made a fundamental mistake when he got into rock music back in the 80s. I believe that if he had chosen to sing his rock material in the same voice that he had previously used for folk music he would have become a superstar. But he didn't! Instead he used/uses a mid-atlantic, bit or this and bit of that, voice. If you don't agree with me, answer me this: How come the greatest voice in contemporary Irish folk music somehow managed to turn himself into a very ordinary rock singer who wouldn't figure in any poll of the top 1000 great rock voices of the past 20 years.