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Showing posts with label Muireann Bradley. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Muireann Bradley. Show all posts

Wednesday, October 01, 2025

Muireann Bradley - These Days

 Muireann Bradley - These Days


Muireann posted a link to clip on Facebook and said “
"It’s already been just over a week since ‘These Days’ was released! I’m so grateful for all the love you’ve shown the song and video it means the world 💛 Thank you for listening, watching, and sharing this journey with me."





Saturday, April 12, 2025

The Late Late Show in Ireland - Muireann Bradley - Delia

Muireann Bradley - Delia  


so I will sign off with this delight from the wondrous Muireann whose remixed album I am enjoying so much this past week or so and is my most recent purchase. She is a young wonderment

Saturday, April 05, 2025

Album of The Week - PLAYLIST | Muireann Bradley - 'I Kept These Old Blues'


 


01:57  - "Candyman"
07:20 - "Police Dog Blues"
12:10 - "When the Levee Breaks" 

 


Muireann Bradley, a young musician based in rural Ireland, is just one of countless acoustic guitarists around the world to enter the woodshed with grit and determination during the lockdown phase of the Covid pandemic. But what sets her apart is that she was only 13 years old at the time and emerged with a repertoire of vintage blues and folk songs that she sings and plays with great authenticity and conviction, not to mention a prodigious fingerstyle technique.

Now 17, Bradley first became inspired to pick up the guitar by listening to Robert Johnson, Blind Blake, Reverend Gary Davis, and other blues pioneers with her musician father, in addition to hearing him picking around the house. Her earliest videos caught the attention of Josh Rosenthal of Tompkins Square Records, who recently released her debut album, I Kept These Old Blues. As the title suggests, it’s a collection of the standards that resonate most with her. 

In this exclusive video, filmed at St Anne’s Church of Ireland churchyard, in Ballyshannon, Bradley performs three classic songs: Reverend Gary Davis’ version of “Candyman,” Blind Blake’s “Police Dog Blues,” and Memphis Minnie’s “When the Levee Breaks.” She also provides some insights into their history. To achieve a period-correct sound, she plays her Gibson LG-2 reissue; a Waterloo WL-S Deluxe, with its ladder bracing; and her personal favorite, an X-braced Waterloo WL-14X, whose V-shaped neck she finds feels the most like home.

Buy 'I Kept These Old Blues': https://amzn.to/3HQwhFd

My copy arrived this week and it is a sheer delight! As if you didn’t know!



Muireann’s YouTube page here