Burning Times (album)

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Burning Times
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Studio album by Christy Moore
Released 2005 (2005)
Recorded 2005
Genre Folk
Label Sony International
Producer Declan Sinnott
Christy Moore chronology
Live at Vicar Street
(2002)		Burning Times
(2005)		 Live at the Point
(2006)

Burning Times is an album by Irish folk singer Christy Moore. The album is dedicated to Rachel Corrie, an American activist killed by an Israeli bulldozer in Gaza in 2003. [1]

Christy Moore Irish folk singer, songwriter, and guitarist

Christopher Andrew "Christy" Moore is an Irish folk singer, songwriter and guitarist. He is one of the founding members of Planxty and Moving Hearts. His first album, Paddy on the Road was recorded with Dominic Behan in 1969. In 2007, he was named as Ireland's greatest living musician in RTÉ's People of the Year Awards.

Rachel Corrie American anti-war and human rights activist

Rachel Aliene Corrie was an American activist and diarist. She was a member of a pro-Palestinian group called the International Solidarity Movement (ISM). She was killed by an Israel Defense Forces (IDF) armored bulldozer in a combat zone in Rafah, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, under contested circumstances during the height of the second Palestinian intifada.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "16 Fishermen Raving" (Wally Page, Tony Boylan)
  2. "Motherland" (Natalie Merchant)
  3. "Butterfly (So Much Wine)" (Brett Sparks, Rennie Sparks)
  4. "Magic Nights in the Lobby Bar" (John Spillane, Ger Wolfe, Ricky Lynch)
  5. "America, I Love You" (Morrissey)
  6. "Mercy" (Wally Page)
  7. "Beeswing" (Richard Thompson)
  8. "The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll" (Bob Dylan)
  9. "The Magdalene Laundries" (Joni Mitchell)
  10. "Burning Times" (Charlie Murphy)
  11. "Peace in the Valley Once Again" (Brett Sparks, Rennie Sparks)
  12. "Changes" (Phil Ochs)

Personnel

Declan Sinnott Irish musician and producer

Declan Sinnott is an Irish musician and record producer.

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References

  1. ↑ The Guardian
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