The most obscure artist to ever receive a 10-CD box set, Jack Hardy's status as a folk mentor and icon derives from his monthly songwriter workshops in New York and his prolific, hyper-literary output. For his first new release since 1997's Celtic-flavored The Passing, Hardy turns his attention to nonchalant, Americana-ready folk rock and a high-brow library full of poetic images. "I ought to know great literature by heart," Hardy sings on the opening track, but his … mehrreading comprehension is hardly wanting. Hardy's dense, mysterious conjurings of Irish mythology won't be to every listener's taste, though his love songs, with fragrant lines like "the willow weeps although unheard" and "'round this old house the wind it whines / with a knocking keeping time," are as vivid and intense as any being written today weniger
- I Ought to Know
- I Can't Love You
- Eclipse
- Sile na gCioch (Shiela)
- Siar on nDaingean (West of Dingle)… mehr
- Memory
- The Yellow-billed Cuckoo
- Willow
- Arrow
- Only One Sky
- Oh Woman
- In the Building of the Boat
- The Boney Bailiff
- A Change of Heart weniger