Clonakilty Cowboys | ||||
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Studio album by The Noel Redding Band | ||||
Released | 1975 | |||
Recorded | 1975 | |||
Genre | Blues rock, Pub Rock | |||
Label | RCA | |||
Producer | Muff Winwood | |||
The Noel Redding Band chronology | ||||
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Clonakilty Cowboys is the first album by the English-Irish folk rock band The Noel Redding Band. Released in 1975, the album is named after Clonakilty, from where the band was formed.
Folk rock is a hybrid music genre combining elements of folk music and rock music, which arose in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom in the mid-1960s. In the U.S., folk rock emerged from the folk music revival and the influence that the Beatles and other British Invasion bands had on members of that movement. Performers such as Bob Dylan and the Byrds—several of whose members had earlier played in folk ensembles—attempted to blend the sounds of rock with their preexisting folk repertoire, adopting the use of electric instrumentation and drums in a way previously discouraged in the U.S. folk community. The term "folk rock" was initially used in the U.S. music press in June 1965 to describe the Byrds' music.
The Noel Redding Band were an English-Irish folk rock supergroup that formed in Clonakilty, County Cork in 1974. Comprising bassist, rhythm guitarist and vocalist Noel Redding, vocalist and keyboardist Dave Clarke, lead guitarist Eric Bell and drummer Les Sampson, the band released two albums – Clonakilty Cowboys (1975) and Blowin' (1976) – before disbanding in 1978.
Clonakilty, sometimes shortened to Clon, is a town in County Cork, Ireland. The town is located at the head of the tidal Clonakilty Bay. The rural hinterland is used mainly for dairy farming. The town's population as of 2016 was 4,592. The town is a tourism hub in West Cork, and was recognised as the "Best Town in Europe" in 2017, and "Best Place of the Year" in 2017 by the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland. Clonakilty is in the Cork South-West constituency, which has three seats.
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In a review for the music website allmusic, critic William Ruhlmann described the album as "very much a British rock album of its time", going on to say that it "didn't make any noise on the charts and it didn't deserve to". [1]
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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1. | "There's a Light" | David Clarke, Noel Redding, Pete Kircher | 2:59 |
2. | "Throw Me a Buoy" | Clarke, Redding | 2:52 |
3. | "After All" | Clarke | 4:36 |
4. | "Roller Coaster Kids" | Clarke | 3:18 |
5. | "Eight Nights a Week" | Clarke, Redding | 3:37 |
6. | "Clonakilty Cowboys" | Clarke | 2:55 |
7. | "Snowstorm" | Clarke, Redding | 3:01 |
8. | "Born to His Name" | Clarke, Redding | 2:50 |
9. | "If I Had" | Clarke, Redding | 3:40 |
10. | "Got to Move Away" | Redding, Carol Rosen | 3:44 |
David Noel Redding was an English rock musician, best known as the bass player and occasional lead singer for the Jimi Hendrix Experience and guitarist/singer for Fat Mattress. The bass guitar is a plucked string instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric guitar, except with a longer neck and scale length, and four to six strings or courses. Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice and augments regular speech by the use of sustained tonality, rhythm, and a variety of vocal techniques. A person who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music that can be sung with or without accompaniment by musical instruments. Singing is often done in an ensemble of musicians, such as a choir of singers or a band of instrumentalists. Singers may perform as soloists or accompanied by anything from a single instrument up to a symphony orchestra or big band. Different singing styles include art music such as opera and Chinese opera, Indian music and religious music styles such as gospel, traditional music styles, world music, jazz, blues, gazal and popular music styles such as pop, rock, electronic dance music and filmi. |
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