BAP KENNEDY - The Big Picture

Fri 04 Feb 2005

Irish songwriter gets better and better...

BAP KENNEDY – The Big Picture Since the demise of would be and almost were stadium rockers Energy Orchard, west Belfast native Bap Kennedy has been ploughing a Steve Earle accompanied Nashville furrow. He has done his tributes to Hank Williams and Elvis Presley and now he is coming up to date and nearer home. Milky Way is a co-write with Van Morrison and the man from the opposite end of Belfast is deep in the influence elsewhere too though the instrumentation still lives out in the country. As well as Van there is a famous guest spot by the Pogue Shane Magowan on the appropriately named On The Mighty Ocean Of Alcohol and beat poet Neal Cassady’s wife Carolyn adds as spoken word on Moriarty's Blues. All in all Kennedy’s writing gets more and more carefully crafted and this album cash’s the cheques his special guests write.