Mick Flannery: Red To Blue
Red To Blue
LP
LP (Long Play)
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- Label: Universal, 2012
- Bestellnummer: 11094277
- Erscheinungstermin: 9.12.2022
Songs, so gut, als wären sie in Stein eingemeißelt. Der Sänger, Gitarrist und Songwriter Mick Flannery hätte guten Grund mit solch einem Bonmot hausieren zu gehen, zumal der 29-jährige Ire von Haus aus tatsächlich Steinmetz ist. Der irische Platin-Künstler ist jedoch eher bescheiden und hängt nur ungern irgendetwas an die große Glocke.
Nichtsdestotrotz dürfte es ihn angenehm berührt haben, als er in diesem Frühjahr mit "Red To Blue", seinem nunmehr dritten Album, die Pop-Queen Madonna von ihrem Chart-Thron verdrängte und die Spitze der irischen Album-Charts im Handstreich eroberte und sich von dort einige Wochen lang nicht verdrängen ließ. Das hat dem in seiner Heimat populären Songschmied, der seine Kompositionen in der Tradition klassischer Ikonen der Songkunst wie Bob Dylan und Leonard Cohen, Tom Waits und Neil Young anzusiedeln weiß, viele stolze Schlagzeilen eingebracht.
It’s mid February 2012, and Mick Flannery is in the BBC Studios in Belfast, recording an acoustic session, ahead of his debut Belfast gig. The new album is done and dusted, and Mick is taking time to reflect on the journey from the release of his sophomore album, ‘White Lies’, to where he is today.
After the release of ‘White Lies’, Mick and band toured Ireland extensively for what, Mick openly admits, may have been too long a period. “The songwriting suffered and lacked originality because of lack of time off”. When Mick did finally get off the road, he went in to studio in Killarney, with Tony O’Flaherty, but with so few songs to work with, only ‘Gone Forever’ lasted to make the album.
Mick and band decamped to Wexford in January 2010, to Purple Crow studios, where they recorded day and night. “A good deal of the songs were written here while staying in the house come studio ran by Donal Byrne” say Mick. “Bassist Brian Hassett, guitarist Hugh Dillon, violinist Karen O’Doherty, singer Yvonne Daly and drummer Christian Best were all influential in the arrangement and styling of the songs”. From these sessions came ‘Heartless Man’, ‘Ships in the Night’, ‘Lead Me On, Up On That Hill’, ‘Nasty Weather’, ‘If I Go On’, and ‘Get That Gold’. At this point there were close to thirty songs in all but still no sign of a finished album.
In between recording sessions and live shows, Mick made two trips to the America. The first was to Boston, in late 2010, where he stayed with Declan Lucey and Dave Farrell, from the band Rubyhorse. There he wrote two of the songs that made the album, ‘No Way To Live’ and ‘Boston’. Having seen the benefits of getting away for a while, he made another trip to America in 2011, this time to Nashville, where he wrote ‘Keepin’ Score’ and finished title track, ‘Red to Blue’, which he initially started in Boston, with the help of Declan Lucey.
By this time Mick was feeling the pressure, mostly from himself, to release another album. He returned to Cork, where he, again, teamed up with Christian Best, who, Mick says, was key to bringing this album to fruition. With his work ethic and production / engineering ability, the new songs were recorded and the old songs improved at Monique studios.
Recording finished in late November 2011 with the help of C. S.L. Parker and the Vanbrugh string quartet, and also the help of a brass section led by Paul Dunlea.
The songs now in the can, the files were sent to Ryan Freeland to mix and master. Freeland has, in the past, worked with Ray LaMontagne, Aimee Mann, Joe Henry, Grant-Lee Phillips, Son Volt, Jim White, and Loudon Wainwright III, among others.
Session at the BBC completed, it’s off to another soundcheck, for another show. It’s only the beginning for ‘Red To Blue’.
Album cover artwork original oil painting by Dublin based artist Al Freney .
(mickflannery. com)
,,Der Ire kann zünftigen (Folk-) Rock, aber auch sanftere Klänge." (Rolling Stone, Oktober 2012)
,,Mick Flannery, ein bärtiger und in Flanellhemd gewandeter Steinmetz, macht nicht viel Aufhebens um sich, sondern überzeugt mit Soul in der Stimme und durchweg tollen Songs." (Stereo, Dezember 2012)
,,Rauchiger Straßenfolk wechselt sich mit traditionell irischen Klängen und einsam gezupften Balladen ab." (stereoplay, Dezember 2012)
Nichtsdestotrotz dürfte es ihn angenehm berührt haben, als er in diesem Frühjahr mit "Red To Blue", seinem nunmehr dritten Album, die Pop-Queen Madonna von ihrem Chart-Thron verdrängte und die Spitze der irischen Album-Charts im Handstreich eroberte und sich von dort einige Wochen lang nicht verdrängen ließ. Das hat dem in seiner Heimat populären Songschmied, der seine Kompositionen in der Tradition klassischer Ikonen der Songkunst wie Bob Dylan und Leonard Cohen, Tom Waits und Neil Young anzusiedeln weiß, viele stolze Schlagzeilen eingebracht.
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It’s mid February 2012, and Mick Flannery is in the BBC Studios in Belfast, recording an acoustic session, ahead of his debut Belfast gig. The new album is done and dusted, and Mick is taking time to reflect on the journey from the release of his sophomore album, ‘White Lies’, to where he is today.
After the release of ‘White Lies’, Mick and band toured Ireland extensively for what, Mick openly admits, may have been too long a period. “The songwriting suffered and lacked originality because of lack of time off”. When Mick did finally get off the road, he went in to studio in Killarney, with Tony O’Flaherty, but with so few songs to work with, only ‘Gone Forever’ lasted to make the album.
Mick and band decamped to Wexford in January 2010, to Purple Crow studios, where they recorded day and night. “A good deal of the songs were written here while staying in the house come studio ran by Donal Byrne” say Mick. “Bassist Brian Hassett, guitarist Hugh Dillon, violinist Karen O’Doherty, singer Yvonne Daly and drummer Christian Best were all influential in the arrangement and styling of the songs”. From these sessions came ‘Heartless Man’, ‘Ships in the Night’, ‘Lead Me On, Up On That Hill’, ‘Nasty Weather’, ‘If I Go On’, and ‘Get That Gold’. At this point there were close to thirty songs in all but still no sign of a finished album.
In between recording sessions and live shows, Mick made two trips to the America. The first was to Boston, in late 2010, where he stayed with Declan Lucey and Dave Farrell, from the band Rubyhorse. There he wrote two of the songs that made the album, ‘No Way To Live’ and ‘Boston’. Having seen the benefits of getting away for a while, he made another trip to America in 2011, this time to Nashville, where he wrote ‘Keepin’ Score’ and finished title track, ‘Red to Blue’, which he initially started in Boston, with the help of Declan Lucey.
By this time Mick was feeling the pressure, mostly from himself, to release another album. He returned to Cork, where he, again, teamed up with Christian Best, who, Mick says, was key to bringing this album to fruition. With his work ethic and production / engineering ability, the new songs were recorded and the old songs improved at Monique studios.
Recording finished in late November 2011 with the help of C. S.L. Parker and the Vanbrugh string quartet, and also the help of a brass section led by Paul Dunlea.
The songs now in the can, the files were sent to Ryan Freeland to mix and master. Freeland has, in the past, worked with Ray LaMontagne, Aimee Mann, Joe Henry, Grant-Lee Phillips, Son Volt, Jim White, and Loudon Wainwright III, among others.
Session at the BBC completed, it’s off to another soundcheck, for another show. It’s only the beginning for ‘Red To Blue’.
Album cover artwork original oil painting by Dublin based artist Al Freney .
(mickflannery. com)
Rezensionen
,,Der Ire kann zünftigen (Folk-) Rock, aber auch sanftere Klänge." (Rolling Stone, Oktober 2012)
,,Mick Flannery, ein bärtiger und in Flanellhemd gewandeter Steinmetz, macht nicht viel Aufhebens um sich, sondern überzeugt mit Soul in der Stimme und durchweg tollen Songs." (Stereo, Dezember 2012)
,,Rauchiger Straßenfolk wechselt sich mit traditionell irischen Klängen und einsam gezupften Balladen ab." (stereoplay, Dezember 2012)
- Tracklisting
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LP
- 1 Gone Forever
- 2 Heartless Man
- 3 Only Gettin On
- 4 Ships In The Night
- 5 Keepin Score
- 6 Red To Blue
- 7 Up On That Hill
- 8 No Way To Live
- 9 Get That Gold
- 10 Down The Road
- 11 Lead Me On
- 12 Boston
