Showing posts with label Tara O'Grady. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tara O'Grady. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 10, 2016

Tara O'Grady - A Celt In The Cotton Club

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 48:49
Size: 111.8 MB
Styles: Swing, Jazz vocals
Year: 2013
Art: Front

[4:36] 1. On Feeling Blue
[2:41] 2. You Won't Get Me There Tonight
[4:12] 3. Black Is The Color
[3:21] 4. In Belfast Tonight
[3:22] 5. Go Lassie Go
[4:12] 6. To Be Missing The Sun
[2:53] 7. Love Me Lovely Lashes
[4:17] 8. That's What The Miners Would Say
[3:31] 9. Where's My Valentine
[4:31] 10. La Dee Da
[4:56] 11. Gardenia Girl
[5:33] 12. Too Ra Loo Ra
[0:39] 13. (Hidden Track)

Awarded Irish Voice’s Most Influential Woman 2010 presented by Ireland's Prime Minister, the singer-songwriter has four CD releases, Black Irish (2010), Good Things Come to Those Who Wait (2011), A Celt in the Cotton Club (2013), and Irish Bayou (2015) and has performed at festivals from Butte, Montana to Austin, Texas's famous South By Southwest-SXSW.

"This torchy chanteuse leads one of the most badass old-time swing bands you'll ever hear. One thing that distinguishes her from the legions of come-hither, moldy fig front women is that O'Grady writes her own songs - when she's at the top of her game, which she generally seems to be, they sound like classics from the 1930s. She brings Bessie Smith into this century with lickety-split swing." ~ New York Music Daily

A Celt In The Cotton Club

Thursday, March 31, 2016

Tara O'Grady - Black Irish

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 32:39
Size: 74.8 MB
Styles: Jazz vocals
Year: 2010
Art: Front

[2:46] 1. Black Velvet Band
[4:27] 2. Danny Boy
[4:35] 3. The Water Is Wide
[2:26] 4. I'll Tell Me Ma
[4:04] 5. Nora
[3:34] 6. Wild Rover
[3:24] 7. Peggy Gordon
[2:49] 8. Molly Malone
[4:31] 9. The Holy Ground

Nominated as one of Irish Voice’s Most Influential Women of 2010, her debut album, Black Irish, is a collection of Irish songs she grew up listening to as a child. But don’t expect any jigs on this CD. She’s swinging it, baby!

Her version of 'Danny Boy' was featured in a 2013 BBC documentary film for the song's 100th anniversary called "Danny Boy: The Ballad That Bewitched The World," along with Elvis Presley's and Johnny Cash's versions. Tara is also interviewed in the film along with folk singer Judy Collins, actor Gabriel Byrne, musician Paddy Maloney of the Chieftains, and film maker Jim Sheridan.

“I think Tara O’Grady has a fierce soul, because her glorious voice is positively dripping with it. I was totally moved by this album. Her unique jazz arrangements of Irish standards, and that VOICE, take me to places I haven’t been in a long time. This delightful album is not only fun, it’s deep!” ~Dr. Christine Ranck, Co-Author, Ignite the Genius Within.

Black Irish