Mary Black Sings Jimmy MacCarthy

Track Listing

  1. No Frontiers
  2. Adam at the Window
  3. There Is No Night
  4. Love’s Last Chance
  5. Bright Blue Rose
  6. What We Came Here For
  7. Wonder Child
  8. Katie
  9. Mystic Lipstick
  10. Another Day (not included on vinyl edition)
  11. As I Leave Behind Neidin (duet with Jimmy MacCarthy from RTE’s programme She’s Got It in 1988)

Technical Info

Released2017
Label codeTUCD 044 (CD), TULP 044 (Vinyl)
Released on3ú Records, Unit F5, South City Business Park, Whitestown Way, Dublin 24, Ireland
Marketed and distributed byDolphin Traders Ltd., Unit F5, South City Business Park, Whitestown Way, Dublin 24, Ireland
Front Cover PhotoJoe O’Reilly
Other PhotosGavin Leane and Colm Henry
Art Direction & DesignThe Brand Idea, Dublin
Produced byDeclan Sinnott (No Frontiers, Adam at the Window, Bright Blue Rose, Wonder Child, Katie), Phil Cunningham and Bill Shanley (There Is No Night, Love’s Last Chance, Mystic Lipstick)
Recorded byDan Fitzgerald (No Frontiers)
Engineered byAndrew Boland (Adam at the Window, Bright Blue Rose), Dan Fitzgerald (Katie)
Assisted bySarah McCann (No Frontiers), Tim Boland and Willie Mannion (Adam at the Window, Bright Blue Rose), Rob Kirwan, Conan Doyle and Alastair McMillan (Wonder Child)
Edited byPhilip Begley (No Frontiers)
Recorded, mixed and mastered atBeechpark Studios (There Is No Night, Love’s Last Chance, What We Came Here For, Mystic Lipstick)
Recording, mixing and mastering byDaire Winston (There Is No Night, Love’s Last Chance, What We Came Here For, Mystic Lipstick)
Recorded and mixed byBilly Robinson (Wonder Child
Additional recordingBrian McNeill (What We Came Here For, Mystic Lipstick)

Personnel

VocalsMary Black (all tracks except ‘As I Leave Behind Neidin’, which is Mary Black featuring Jimmy MacCarthy)
GuitarsDeclan Sinnott (No Frontiers, Adam at the Window, Bright Blue Rose, Katie, Another Day)
Acoustic and Spanish GuitarsBill Shanley (There Is No Night)
Acoustic, Electric and Slide GuitarsBill Shanley (Love’s Last Chance, What We Came Here For)
Acoustic GuitarsDeclan Sinnott (Wonder Child)
Acoustic and Bass GuitarBill Shanley (Mystic Lipstick)
PercussionNoel Bridgerman (No Frontiers, Adam at the Window, Katie, Another Day), Nicky Scott (There Is No Night, Bright Blue Rose, Katie)
Bass GuitarJoe Broe (What We Came Here For)
Double BassGarvan Gallagher (No Frontiers, Adam at the Window, Bright Blue Rose), Nicky Scott (There Is No Night, Love’s Last Chance, Wonder Child, Katie, Another Day
AccordionPat Crowley (No Frontiers, Adam at the Window, Bright Blue Rose), Phil Cunningham (Love’s Last Chance, Mystic Lipstick)
SynthsDonal Lunny (No Frontiers, Another Day), Marie Breatnach (Adam at the Window)
HarmoniesMary Black (No Frontiers)
Guitar and Backing VocalsDeclan Sinnott (Adam at the Window)
Piano and Backing VocalsPat Crowley (Adam at the Window)
Percussion and Backing VocalsBill Shanley (There Is No Night, Love’s Last Chance)
Backing VocalsRoisin Ó (There Is No Night, Love’s Last Chance, Mystic Lipstick), Pat Crowley (Bright Blue Rose), Bill Shanley (Mystic Lipstick), John Broe (Mystic Lipstick)
SaxaphoneCarl Geraghty (Adam at the Window, Katie, Another Day)
Atlo FluteSarah Allen (There Is No Night, What We Came Here For)
HarmonicaPhil Cunningham (There Is No Night)
Additional HammondBill Shanley (Mystic Lipstick)
String ArrangementJohn Ashton Thomas (There Is No Night, Mystic Lipstick)
ViolinGreg Lawson and Fiona Stephen (There Is No Night, Mystic Lipstick)
ViolaScott Dickenson (There Is No Night, Mystic Lipstick)
KeyboardsPat Crowley (Love’s Last Chance, Mystic Lipstick)
PianoPat Crowley (Bright Blue Rose, Katie, Wonder Child, Mystic Lipstick, Another Day)
CelloSu-a-Lee (There Is No Night, Mystic Lipstick)
DrumsJames McIntosh (Love’s Last Chance, What We Came Here For) Nollaig Bridgerman (Mystic Lipstick)
Fiddle and SynthesizerMarie Breatnach (Bright Blue Rose)
TambourineMary Black (What We Came Here For)
Solo ViolaFrank Gallagher (Wonder Child)
Chamber Orchestra arranged and conducted byFrank Gallagher (Wonder Child)
HarmoniesMary Black (No Frontiers), Mandy Murphy (Katie)