Circus

Artist: Mary Black
Label: Curb Records
Category: Music

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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 715187783225
EAN: 0715187783225
ASIN: B000000DFH

Release Date: 1996-09-17

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Listmania:

Great New Age, Celtic, and World Music

Tracks:

The Circus
In A Dream
The Moon & St. Christopher
Wonder Child
All That Hammering
Donegal Breeze
A Stone's Throw From The Soul
Free As Stone
Roisin
Into The Blue
Gabriel
Raven In The Storm

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Customer Reviews:

An album I can't get tired of!.......2005-11-10

Great album all the way through-like good country music, it is soulful, introspective even, but keeps a steady pace and rich texture. I have listened to it almost every day for several months and am not tired of it yet. I can't say that many other albums have survived 100 listens as far as I am concerned.

I came rather warily to this album; for many years, all I ever heard of "Irish music" was either the folk stuff with tin whistle, fiddle, harp, and pipes; or the old-school tenors ala John McCormick and Morton Downey Sr; or else the sleep-inducing New Agey stuff ala Enya. But Mary Black, with The Pogues and a few others, is opening up a new horizon in world music for me. I expect this album to survive another 100 listens and keep going strong.

Gatwick Duty Free.......2005-02-25

Traveling broadens the mind and wears on the seat a bit
I was in London over Thanksgiving
Upon returning, obtaining my usual bottles of Scotch
the kind lady slipped in an Irish CD
with one of Mary Black's songs
At Tower Records, I bought the only album they had
the 2-record best of set
she joins the pantheon of
Nana, Roger, Eartha, Willie, Joan and Chris Smither
an emerald gem
whether you be Christian to the core
or
absolute abstaining agnostic Deist atheist ...
God speaks through this voice.

Single best Mary Black album I know of!.......2004-05-24

I came to Mary Black's music via her concept album "The Holy Ground" in the early '90s. I was captivated by her song-selection, arrangements and, of course, that voice. Haunting, enagaging, mystical allusions abound, yet in "The Circus" I found an even greater fullness, as the songs have more to do with real-life relationships (with the musical arrangements, if possible, even richer in tone). John Gorka's "All that Hammering" and Mary Chapin Carpetner's "The Moon and St Christopher" are high points, as are the title song, "Gabriel" and "Into the Blue." "Donegal Breeze" harks back to her Irish homeland, and the live "Raven in the Storm" shows how exciting she can be outside the studio too. "The Circus" would be my "desert island" choice, had I but one Mary Black cd to choose. Enjoy!

Truly lovely exceptional songs, sung in Mary's pure voice........1998-05-18

For all of you Mary Black fans, this is one of her best. She has picked very intimate, remarkable songs, some of which may move you to tears. Not of sadness, but of tenderness, beauty, understanding. You'll enjoy this one.

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