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"If you love warm sweet singing from the heart, with absolutely perfect arrangements, you'll love this fine CD from County Armagh native Briege Murphy. Briege's clear, lovely voice is well-met by the instruments. It's clear that a great deal of care and experience went into the songs and the arrangements, and it pays off nicely." - Paul Carr, San Francisco Herald
"One of our more modest talents, Briege's lyrical songs have been picked by several other singers, including Frances Black and Niamh Parsons. This album is her best yet, and is bound to provide more material for others to pick up on." - Geoff Harden, Newsletter/ Irish music magazine
| "Its a well-balanced album, and should give hours of pleasure to all those who want to seek a release from the noise of pop." - Peadar O Ruairc, Irish News |
"A beautiful album" - Tommy Sands, songwriter
"Take the time to sit and listen and enjoy the talent that Briege Murphy portrays through her lyrics and her music " - The Anglo Celt
"The Elm Wood is an enchanting collection of songs" - The Argus, Dundalk
"The Cd is absolutely superb" - Robert McMillen, The Irish News
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"The Sea & Other Songs" | Released 1996
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This follow up to Briege's acclaimed debut album has served to further confirm her status as a songwriter of note and worth. We continue to hear Briege bring to life through song situations common to peoples own experiences.
| "A storyteller using sensibly and carefully, the power of words to great effect and delivering her songs in manner both disarming and unaffected. Briege Murphy delivers the goods convincingly. "The Sea & Other Songs" is worthy of being a treasured possession." - John O'Regan, RTE / BBC, Folk Roots, Rock 'n' Reel |
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"The Longest Road" |
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This album is a collection of contemporary folk/country songs, in which Briege has drawn on rural themes, creating a sense of place, which has been compared to the works of Patrick Kavanagh. Despite her deep roots in traditional music, of which there has been a tremendous revival in her home area, there is a definite modern feel to her music. Her intelligent lyrics and poignant themes have caught the imaginations of her listeners and won her the admiration of such notables as Christy Moore, Niamh Parsons and many others.
Review in "Kansai Time-Out" magazine, Japan
Two albums from a new (to us) talent from Northern Ireland. Briege Murphy is very much in the tradition of Irish women singers and with Mary Black and Dolores Keane to compete with it's a very strong field indeed. But both these albums are very rewarding in their own right. Her debut, The Longest Road, contains an unusually high number of strong melodies and thoughtful lyrics, all of them by Ms. Murphy, which the recent follow-up continues. She's already received attention from the likes of Christy Moore and her writing has rightly been described as having echoes of Mary Chapin-Carpenter. The production is low-key, always tasteful, and both albums are top class performances. JP
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