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Mary Black's First Album in 7 Years
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Wednesday November 30, 2011
From RTE
The Black Stuff
Mary Black’s first album in seven years is very much a family affair featuring songs with her three children as well as collaborations with Imelda May and Janis Iain. Alan Corr meets the singer and hears about her son Danny, her late mother, and the dark times in her life.
Times are very interesting in Mary Black’s house right now. recently she released Stories From The Steeples, her first album in six years, and soonafter, her son Danny O’Reilly released his third album with his band The Coronas. To complete the sense that maybe the Black/O’Reilly clan are on a mission to take over the country, Mary’s 24-year old daughter Roisin O is currently playing gigs as she records her own debut album.
“It’s hectic,” Mary says. “We’re all releasing stuff at the same time so it is a bit of a battle. To be honest, there was a bit of space between the releases so that’s ok and we wanted that space but I would have been happier if The Coronas get to No 1 rather than me. Looking at them and how hard they’ve worked and what it would mean to them I would have given mine up for theirs.”
Ah a mother’s love is a blessing but then again Mary Black has already had seven No 1 albums in her near thirty-year career. At the height of her fame she was pretty much the Voice of Ireland, the woman with a tone as pure as a mountain stream who was called upon to sing for Presidents and whose recordings were used to test hi-fi equipment by audiophile magazines.
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