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The Music of What Happened

Ryan. Cathie (Artist) | Format: Audio CD
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1. At The Foot Of The Knocknarea
2. Home By Bearna
3. I'm Going Back
4. We Dreamed Our Dreams
5. Love And Freedom
6. Understanding Love
7. Lament Of The Three Marys
8. The Lights Of San Francisco
9. Mother, Will You Let Me Go To The Fair?
10. Erin's Lovely Home
11. Lovely Willie
12. The Burnt Old Man
13. The Yellow Bittern

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Cathie Ryan sings with a tragic heart. Her flawless soprano never tightens into stiff professionalism. Instead it wraps itself around notes, wrenching experience from an age-old form. Her repertoire, while a mix of soft originals, aged traditional Irish ballads, and newer songs from songwriters she admires, tends to picture the world in difficult yet hopeful terms. Her second album features Gerry O'Beirne's compact reading of modern politics and private love, "The Lights of San Francisco," and Dick Farrelly's "We Dreamed Our Dreams," which works a haunting melody around a lyric of a lost promise of love. Seamus Egan's spotless production highlights Michael Aharon's sympathetic piano, a web of acoustic guitars, and, of course, Ryan's voice, presented most starkly in the near a cappella "Erin's Lovely Home." --Rob O'Connor

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THIS ALBUM IS WHATS HAPPENING Oct 17 2001
Format:Audio CD
THIS ALBUM IS MY FAVORITE! CATHIE HAS A PURE,MELODIC VOICE.
THEE ISN'T ONE SONG THAT I CAN SAY DOESN'T BELONG THERE. THEY ALL ARE JUST GREAT!
CAN'T WAIT FOR THE NEXT RELEASE!
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Outstanding!!!! Aug 4 2000
By Moe811
Format:Audio CD
I have seen Cathy Ryan in concert twice, in a small outdoor setting, and she was wonderful. She has a beautiful voice although she seems to think that Irish women are shy and retiring. I've never met any like that! Both of her CD's are well worth buying, as well as her work with Cherish the Ladies.
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A fresh new addition to anyone's cd collection. Jan 27 1999
Format:Audio CD
As a professional singer and pianist myself who grew up on gospel and 70's R&B I have been able to find little in the modern music market that scintillates my taste. When looking for some work by a young Celtic singer named Breda Mayock (who appears on a Hector Zazou album entitled "Lights in the Dark", itself, also a fabulous album) I stumbled across this work by Cathie Ryan (Breda has nothing of her own available yet). Within one minute of listening to the first track of "The Music of What Happens" I was in love with it. It is a masterpiece. I place it among my top few favorites of all time, in a category with: Miles Davis' "Kind of Blue" and Donny Hathaway's "Extensions of a Man". From a musician's point of view, this album is a must. You will be hard pressed to find another contemporary singer who is as honest in sound and uncontrived in spirit as Cathie Ryan. Not to mention that the songs, in and of themselves, are terrific (though I would not want to listen to another singer interpret them or dare to attempt them myself - since it is entirely Cathie's sensitivity and purity of tone that makes them truly magical). The blend of Celtic and American folk, highlighted by unusual production (including a very moody fretless bass on the first track), and poetic lyrics is inspirational. Cathie is one of the best new singers that I have found in years. No one can do what she is doing. But I, for one, am very excited that she's doing it.
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