Product Description
Title: Patrick Kavanagh – Almost Everything Format: 2 CD Label: Universal Cat Num: Barcode: 0602445286997
Release date: September 23rd 2022
President Michael D. Higgins, Bono, Liam Neeson, Jessie Buckley and more bring the
work of seminal Irish poet Patrick Kavanagh to life on a new record, ‘Almost
Everything…’ , set for release on Friday 23rd September 2022 from Claddagh
Records.
Originally released on Claddagh Records in 1964, the double album also features the
only recording of the revered Irish poet reading his most celebrated poems. Now
remastered and reimagined this new two-part album features the original
recordings and Kavanagh’s poetry read by Bono, Hozier, Imelda May, Liam Neeson,
Jessie Buckley, Aidan Gillen, Lisa McGee, Lisa Hannigan, President Michael D.
Higgins, Evanna Lynch, Sharon Corr, Kathleen Watkins, Christy Moore, Rachael
Blackmore and Aisling Bea set to a truly wonderful music composition.
The music on this record is recorded by Cormac Butler, producer extraordinaire,
songwriter and mix engineer of Faction Records. Cormac has an extensive and
wide-ranging discography from All Tvvins to James Vincent McMorrow to Sorcha
Richardson to The Academic to Gavin James and The Coronas.
Track Listings
Disc: 1
| 1 | On Raglan Road (read by Bono) |
| 2 | Stony Grey Soil (read by President Michael D. Higgins) |
| 3 | Memory of My Father (read by Liam Neeson) |
| 4 | Canal Bank Walk (read by Imelda May) |
| 5 | Peace (read by Hozier) |
| 6 | Inniskeen Road: July Evening (read by Lisa McGee) |
| 7 | In Memory of my Mother (read by Kathleen Watkins) |
| 8 | The Hospital (read by Lisa Hannigan) |
| 9 | Pegasus (read by Rachael Blackmore) |
| 10 | October (read by Christy Moore) |
| 11 | Shancoduff (read by Aisling Bea) |
| 12 | Lines Written on a Seat on the Grand Canal, Dublin (read by Evanna Lynch) |
| 13 | Extract from ‘The Great Hunger’ (read by Aidan GIllen) |
| 14 | A Christmas Childhood (read by Sharon Corr) |
| 15 | Epic (read by Jessie Buckley) |
Disc: 2
| 1 | Autobiographical Prose |
| 2 | The Same Again |
| 3 | Jungle |
| 4 | Narcissus and the Women |
| 5 | Epic |
| 6 | God in Woman |
| 7 | Kerr’s Ass |
| 8 | Peace |
| 9 | The Hospital |
| 10 | On the Death of Jim Larkin |
| 11 | Extract from ‘The Great Hunger’ |
| 12 | Living in the Country: Part One |
| 13 | Dear Folks |
| 14 | Miss Universe |
| 15 | About Reason, Maybe |
| 16 | To Hell With Commonsense |
| 17 | October |
| 18 | Come Dance With Kitty Stobling |
| 19 | Prelude |
| 20 | Having Confessed |
