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February 27, 2013 by Simon Sweetman

The Chieftains: Live Over Ireland – Water From The Well

The Chieftains Live Over Ireland: Water From The Well Shock The Water From The Well CD was a return-to-roots project for The Chieftains and the DVD of the same name shows performances, rehearsals and recording footage from the album and tour as well as generous interviews with band members tracing the history of the group [...]
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February 8, 2013 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 1422

Van Morrison, A Period of Transition (1977) You need more Van Morrison albums than you probably think you do. But you don’t need anywhere near as many as Van Morrison obviously thinks you do. But you need more than just the two or three alleged classics – for my money there’s about 10 albums you [...]
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October 8, 2011 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 1819

Van Morrison, Moondance (1970) It’s a great shame, it’s annoying, it’s almost amusing really, it’s probably ironic and it is without question that the worst song on the Van Morrison album Moondance is the song called Moondance; the title song, the song the album takes its name from. But then, I never listened to this [...]
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October 5, 2011 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 1822

V/A, The King Of Comedy [OST] (1983) This was a nice find, picked this up recently. Bought it because I love the movie The King Of Comedy – I think it’s one of the very best pieces that the DeNiro/Scorsese pairing gave us. It would be churlish to call it the best but I do [...]
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