PAUL BRADY, 'BLUE WORLD', DUBLIN GUITAR NIGHT, JJ SMYTH'S, 2013.

Solo rendition of 'Blue World' by Paul Brady for a mesmerized audience, when he played a brilliant solo acoustic set during the 'Dublin Guitar Night' gig at JJ Smyth's music venue in Dublin on Tuesday, August 27th, 2013, along with sets from other fine guitarists, including Tony McManus, Hugh Buckley, Nigel Clark and Mickey Murphy.

Featuring:
Paul Brady -- guitar, vocals

Links:
http://www.paulbrady.com/
http://www.paulbrady.com/bio
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Brady
http://www.jjsmyths.com/

About Paul Brady (extract from Paul's website, full bio well worth a read):
Paul Brady, singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist is one of Ireland's most enduringly popular artists. Born and raised in Strabane, Northern Ireland. A Fifties child, his first sounds the Swing, Jazz, Show tunes of his parents generation. Then 50′s Rock 'n Roll, 60′s pop and Motown, Blues, R'nB and Country and Western. Through all this ran the potent flavour of Irish traditional music and song. Learning to play the piano pretty much by ear, trial and error, his early heroes were Jerry Lee Lewis, Winifred Atwell and Fats Domino. By the age of eleven he had begun to play guitar, spending hours of his school holidays learning every tune the Shadows and The Ventures recorded, every lick Chuck Berry played. Moving with The Johnstons in Jan '69 to live in London and later in '72 to New York City, he returned to Dublin in 1974 to join Planxty, the premier Irish folk band of the early '70′s. This was the band that was to launch the solo careers of Andy Irvine, Liam O' Flynn, Donal Lunny and Christy Moore. From '76 to '78 he played as a duo with Andy Irvine, a relationship which produced "Andy Irvine and Paul Brady". His versions of great ballads like Arthur McBride and The Lakes Of Pontchartrain were definitive and are still being asked for by audiences today. Surprising most observers at the time, he released "Hard Station" in 1981. Self-penned, the album lyrically reflected the personal changes he was undergoing and musically was a highly original reworking of his earlier influences. Irish folk music took a back seat for the time being. Gradually other artists worldwide began to record his songs. After many years of writing on his own, in the late 90′s, he began to collaborate with other songwriters and in the space of two years wrote nearly fifty songs, several already covered by other artists. In May 2000 Paul released his first album of new songs since 1995′s "Spirits Colliding", an album called '"Oh What A World"' . Featuring many of the songs he wrote and co-wrote over the previous three years and including collaborations with Carole King, Will Jennings, Ronan Keating, Conner Reeves and Mark Hudson it has been critically hailed as one his best ever records.

About JJ's: JJ Smyth's is a family owned bar in the center of Dublin city. Home to many a musician, Jazz and Blues alike. It started off as a family owned grocery and public house back in the 1730's, it has changed throughout the years and now you can hear live Jazz and Blues sounds of the city from within it's doors. JJ's became one of the cities oldest continuous licenses, which has remained on precisely the same site since the 1730's and was the birthplace of the famous Irish poet and playwright Thomas Moore in May 1779. For more information on the history of JJ Smyth's and the house itself check out the history section of the site.

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