Paul Brady - Hard Station

I watched a Planxty documentary on YouTube last week, which sent me down a Paul Brady rabbit hole.

I don’t know why I hadn’t done this earlier as I’ve long been a fan of his trad stuff. The live version of Arthur McBride is one of my favourite tunes. Such a unique voice and such an amazing guitarist.

So, turns out that down at the end of the rabbit hole was a discogs seller with two Irish Polydor pressings of two of his early eighties albums, going for a song. It’d be churlish not to

Hard Station really should be a much more famous album than it is. It’s choc-full of proper songs, folk-tinged rock delivered in a slightly over-marinaded eighties style, and Brady's open-tuned hybrid-picking guitar playing.

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