{"product_id":"lisa-oneill-heard-a-long-gone-song","title":"LISA O'NEILL - Heard A Long Gone Song","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #ff0000;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCD\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLisa O’Neill\u003c\/strong\u003e grew up in Ballyhaise, County Cavan and now lives in Dublin. Heard A Long Gone Song, her first album for \u003cem\u003eRough Trade\u003c\/em\u003e imprint \u003cem\u003eRiver Lea\u003c\/em\u003e is a collection of traditional material interspersed with her own. The sense of ownership Lisa imbues in these old songs, coupled with the immutability of her chosen subjects makes it hard to tell which is which.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese are folk songs in the original sense of the word. The album begins with an entirely unaccompanied rendition of \u003cem\u003eThe Galway Shawl\u003c\/em\u003e, first collected in 1936 but made famous by \u003cstrong\u003eAlan Lomax’s\u003c\/strong\u003e 1956 recording of the great \u003cstrong\u003eMargaret Barry\u003c\/strong\u003e. Lisa’s remarkable and unconstrained delivery of this popular Irish street ballad is like hearing it for the first time. It’s followed by the slow-building menace of \u003cem\u003eAlong The North Strand\u003c\/em\u003e, a version of \u003cstrong\u003eLady Isabel And The Elf Knight\u003c\/strong\u003e collected from a Traveller singer named \u003cstrong\u003eKitty Cassidy\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"River Lea","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":57023360958809,"sku":"SDZ-21277","price":13.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0588\/3455\/0945\/files\/LISAO_NEILL-HeardALongGoneSong-LP-Vinyl.jpg?v=1746182165","url":"https:\/\/spindizzyrecords.com\/products\/lisa-oneill-heard-a-long-gone-song","provider":"Spindizzy Dublin","version":"1.0","type":"link"}