''Listen'' is an album by Irish
folk
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singer
Christy Moore
Christopher Andrew "Christy" Moore (born 7 May 1945) is an Irish folk singer, songwriter and guitarist. In addition to his significant success as an individual, he is one of the founding members of Planxty and Moving Hearts. His first album, ...
, released in Ireland on 17 April 2009 by
Columbia Records. Recorded with long-time accompanist
Declan Sinnott
Declan Sinnott (born 29 July 1950) is an Irish musician and record producer.
Originally from Wexford town, where his father was an optician and jeweller on Main Street, he came to Dublin in the late 1960s. Around 1970 he was a member of the poe ...
, it is his first studio album since 2005's ''
Burning Times''. The album debuted at number one on the
Irish Albums Chart
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.
Track listing
# "Listen" (Hank Wedel) – 2:48
# "Does This Train Stop on Merseyside?" (
Ian Prowse) – 3:32
# "
Shine On You Crazy Diamond
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" (
David Gilmour,
Richard Wright,
Roger Waters) – 5:07
# "The Ballad of Ruby Walsh" (Christy Moore) – 3:39
# "China Waltz" (Donagh Long) – 3:11
# "
Barrowland" (Christy Moore, Wally Page) – 3:15
# "
Duffy's Cut" (Tony Boylan, Wally Page) – 3:30
# "The Disappeared (Los Desaparacidos)" (Wally Page) – 3:19
# "Ridin' the High Stool" (Christy Moore) – 3:04
# "Gortatagort" (
John Spillane
John Spillane (born 1961) is a singer-songwriter from Cork, Ireland.
Background
Spillane grew up in the Cork suburb of Wilton, in a family of five boys. He was educated in Coláiste an Spioraid Naoimh, Bishopstown. Raised by his mother, she ...
) – 3:42
# "I Will" (
Dick Glasser
Richard Eugene Glasser (December 8, 1933 – July 10, 2000) was a singer, songwriter, and record producer.
Biography
Glasser was born in Canton, Ohio, the third of eleven children and the oldest of five boys: subsequent to graduating Minerv ...
) – 3:05
# "
John O'Dreams
The actual tune first appeared in the 1943 film The Outlaw, as the film's main theme.
John O'Dreams was written by an Englishman, Bill Caddick, (1944-2018), and later became famous in Irish Traditional music. Caddick was born in Wolverhampton, ...
" (
Bill Caddick) – 3:06
# "Rory's Gone" (Christy Moore,
Nigel Rolfe
Nigel Rolfe (born 1950) is an English-born performance artist and video artist based in Ireland. He is a member of Aosdána, an elite association of Irish artists.
Biography
Rolfe was born on the Isle of Wight in 1950. He studied at the Farnha ...
) – 3:39
Personnel
*Christy Moore – vocals, guitar, bodhrán
*
Declan Sinnott
Declan Sinnott (born 29 July 1950) is an Irish musician and record producer.
Originally from Wexford town, where his father was an optician and jeweller on Main Street, he came to Dublin in the late 1960s. Around 1970 he was a member of the poe ...
– guitalele, mandola, keyboards, banjo, vocals
*Eleanor Healy – bass, vocals
*Martin Leahy – drums, percussion
*Pat Crowley – accordion
*Neil Martin – cello
*Wally Page – vocals
2009 albums
Christy Moore albums
Columbia Records albums
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