Description
Brady is one of Ireland’s most highly regarded and successful artists. Over his 40 year career, he has crossed musical boundaries again and again, incorporating folk, rock, blues, traditional Irish and classic pop styles into his songwriting.
His songs have been covered by a huge array of major artists, including Tina Turner, Cliff Richard, Cher, Carole King, Art Garfunkel, Eric Clapton, Bonnie Raitt, Joe Cocker, Trisha Yearwood and Phil Collins and, closer to home, Ronan Keating, Joe Dolan, Dickie Rock, Maura O’Connell, Liam Clancy and Mary Black.
Along the way, he delivered some great albums. Many will still reach for that 1976 seminal release with Andy Irvine. It’s never really waned in popularity. It’s a folk classic, and was recently released as a Special Edition, marking the first time the vinyl album has been pressed since the 70s (on coloured vinyl and remastered from the original analog tapes). He’s never lost that incredible warm voice, he sounds as great now as he did on his solo debut Welcome Here Kind Stranger (1978), which Melody Maker named their Folk Album of the Year.
The arrangements on ‘Maybe So’ are all you’d expect from such an accomplished multi-instrumentalist, who is still in very fine voice, unobtrusively supported by other very able musicians.
