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Saints & Scoundrels
Saints & Scoundrels
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Multi-platinum, award-winning accordion player
has never been one to confine herself solely to tradition. The Galway-born virtuoso's eponymous 1991 debut may be the best-selling album of traditional music ever released in her native Ireland, but it's her enormous adaptability to almost every other style of music that keeps seats filled across the globe. On
, her first new collection of studio material since 2007's
,
and her top-notch band managed to incorporate R&B, country, and Cajun into the contemporary celtic pot, and recruited a typically eclectic cast of collaborators, including
, and head
, the latter of whom provides a spirited, if none too eloquent rendition of his own
paired with an instrumental
originally called
To top it all off,
reunited with the original, 1989 version of the
(she spent over a year with the band and contributed mightily to the excellent
album) on the delightful
a
-penned tune originally intended for inclusion on the band's landmark 1989 record,
. ~ James Christopher Monger