How'd he get that good?
I suppose you grow up with it is a short answer...but since I first heard this in 1980...along with the album with Andy Irvine...I've loved hearing Paul Brady play what he knows best. Yes I know he's a good songwriter in contemporary genres (there's a modern word), but when you hear The Lakes of Ponchartrain, or Paddy's Green Shamrock Shore, you must listen with joy and respect to the old sounds and styles that he's giving voice to. This is a wonderful first album, and mercifully it is one that pointed to better and equally wonderful things to come. Sure he's a decent man, so he is.
