Long May You Sing Paul O'Brien

• 1 Long May You Run 03:32
• 2 Silvia's River 03:56
• 3 Jasper 03:57
• 4 Cold Missouri Waters 05:26
• 5 Hallelujah 03:57
• 6 Big Yellow Taxi 02:59
• 7 If You Could Read My Mind 03:41
• 8 I Will Remember You 03:23
• 9 Brooke's Waltz 05:16
• 10 Pacing The Cage / Creation Dream 04:32
• 11 Northwest Passage 04:13
• 12 Lord Inchiquin 01:52
• 13 Sonny's Dream 04:10
• 14 A Song For All Seasons (Prayerful Hymn) 03:31
• Total Runtime 54:25

Info for Long May You Sing

The second studio album from Stockfisch records is an album of Canadian classics plus a brand new song written by Paul. On this album Paul is joined (among others) by master Canadian guitar player and composer Don Ross. On the album there are songs written by Gordon Lightfoot, Joni Mitchel, Neil Young, and Leonard Cohen to name but a few.

Paul O'Brien about this recording: 'This collection of songs is the audio equivalent of the “big kid in the candy store”. To be able to choose my favourite songs written by Canadian writers was one of the most enjoyable experiences I as a singer could have. On the other hand however, it was the most frustrating because there were so many songs I could have, and perhaps should have chosen. I have a feeling this will be but Volume 1 of a long labour of love.

All of these songs have in some way touched me more than the fact they are amazing pieces of art. It was not simply cherry picking (although when I look now at the track list it looks just like cherry picking).

I have taken a few artistic liberties with these tunes, and I truly hope I do not offend anyone, but it seemed to me that I had to try at least to add a little of me to the performances.'

'To be able to work with Don Ross on this record was a dream come true. Thank-you Don! My final thank-you is to Canada, a country that welcomed me, my wife, and three children nine years ago for who we were not just who we could be. It is a place where the only thing that matters is your willingness to belong and to connect - this melting pot is a fine place to be.'

Paul O´Brien, vocals, guitar, bowed psalter
Don Ross, guitars, dobro, fretless bass
Lutz Möller, piano
Stefan Pless, piano
Martin Huch, dobro
Ian Melrose, low whistle
Lea Morris, backing vocals
Beo Brockhausen, percussion, monochord
Grischka Zepf, electric bass, percussion
Hans-Jörg Maucksch, fretless bass

DSD: The here offered DSD is a DSD PCM-to-DSD conversion. Not native DSD! Future Stockfisch productions are produced in PCM 88,2 kHz / 24bit. The Stockfisch DMM-CD/SACD always has a native DSD layer. With a high quality DSD D/A converter, the sound quality should be better than the FLAC 44.1 kHz, 24 bit.

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