Parallel Lines (Dick Gaughan & Andy Irvine album)
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| Studio album by Dick Gaughan & Andy Irvine | ||||
| Released | 1982 | |||
| Recorded | August 1981, at Tonstudio in St Blasien/Herrenhaus, Northeim, Germany |
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| Genre | Irish and Scottish folk music | |||
| Length | 42:33 | |||
| Label | FolkFreak-Platten, Ebergotzen | |||
| Producer | Dick Gaughan, Andy Irvine, Carsten Linde | |||
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Parallel Lines is a one-off album by Dick Gaughan and Andy Irvine, recorded in August 1981 at Günter Pauler's Tonstudio in St Blasien/Herrenhaus, Northeim, Germany, and released in 1982 on the German FolkFreak-Platten label.
It was produced by Gaughan, Irvine and Carsten Linden with a line-up including Gaughan (acoustic and electric guitars, bass guitar and vocal), Irvine (bouzouki, mandola, mandolin, harmonica, hurdy-gurdy, vocal), Nollaig Casey (fiddle), Martin Buschmann (saxophone), Judith Jaenicke (flute) and Bob Lenox (Fender Rhodes piano). Dónal Lunny also overdubbed the fiddle parts and remixed the album at Lombard Studios in Dublin.
In his online autobiography, Irvine recalls:
After one of these tours [in 1980], I went into a recording studio in Northeim, Germany to record an album called Folk Friends 2—others had already made number one. Assembled were my old friends Jack Elliott and Derroll Adams, Alex Campbell, Dick Gaughan, Dolores Keane and John Faulkner and many others. That was some week! (...) We recorded in different combinations and I recorded "Thousands are Sailing" with Dick which would lead to our making an album together a year later: Parallel Lines.
About the recording of Parallel Lines, Irvine added in a later interview:
We had had a couple of rehearsals in Dick's place in Leith and my place in Dublin but mainly of my songs as Dick didn’t really decide what he would sing till we got to Germany. He did a fantastic job on my material. The more so because this was my ‘really really complicated’ period! Whenever we meet, we always make plans to do another one! Don't know if it will ever happen...
"The Creggan White Hare" is a fairly modern ballad that Irvine learned from the singing of Vincent Donnelly from Castle Caulfield, Co. Tyrone, on an old BBC disc recorded in 1952 by Sean O'Boyle and Peter Kennedy. It relates the hunting of hares with greyhounds, a popular pastime in many rural areas in Ireland. However, "the white hare of Low Creggan was too smart for them all".
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