Christy Moore A Terrible Beauty Americana UK [Video]

Irish icon delivers yet another album of meaningful observation and storytelling.

Songwriter, folk singer, guitarist, poet, social commentator, Irish republican, and Ireland’s greatest living musician (People of the Year Awards 2007), so, a living legend. Which makes it all the more difficult to critique Christy Moore and his new album, “A Terrible Beauty”, his thirty-seventh including six live albums and six with his first band, Planxty, in a recording career dating back to 1969.

His early life revolved around drinking (and many of his songs have been about drinking from a variety of angles) – it led to serious health problems associated with alcoholism and then heart problems which caused him to slow down. It did not however blunt his instrument, an acerbic wit underpinning sharp commentary of global events and as a chronicler of sinister events in Ireland past and present.

And the other instrument is his voice, a warm, comforting …