Filled with personal tales of offspring and grandparents, the lovelorn and the lost, it’s the essence of re-imagined folk music, from the traditional intro and outro that act as bookends. It’s folk music, but not as we know it. In these ever-confusing and often annoying times, Brigid brings us modern folk for modern folk, with her evocative vocal, doubling back on itself with strings, steel guitar, horns and mellotron adding to its baroque loveliness. It’s waving back at her rootsy past, daubing new colours on a much-loved canvas. ‘Dream From The Deep Well’ is a new visionary beginning from a gifted songwriter.
Elsewhere, there’s the lovelorn longing of her version of Tim Buckley’s ‘I Must Have Been Blind’, alongside a moving tribute to the late Ashling Murphy, a 23-year-old Irish primary school teacher and traditional Irish musician who was attacked and killed while jogging along the Grand Canal just outside Tullamore, County Offaly. It's a harrowing story, delivered with overwhelming compassion. In the best tradition of old school folk music, it opens up a pressing issue to a wider audience.
It's an album that’s politically primed and socially aware; a broadside for us all, this is Brigid Mae Power’s most complete album yet. .
Released: June 2023
Cat: FIRELP680
Label: Fire Records
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Tracklist
Side A
A1. I Know Who Is Sick
A2. Counting Down
A3. Maybe It's Just Lightning
A4. I Must Have Been Blind
A5. The Waterford Song
A6. Ashling
Side B
B1. I'll Wait Outside For You
B2. Dream From The Deep Well
B3. I Don't Know Your Story
B4. Some Life You've Known
B5. Down By The Glenside