Larry Kirwan devotes himself to a strange mixture of Irish nationalism, American civil rights advocacy, and working-class infidelity on New York's Lower East Side. He sings with equal passion about 1920s Irish patriots and lovers' triangles, and when he loses his girlfriends to better-employed sanitation workers and dentists, he buries his misery in six-packs. It's a worldview of sorts, especially because Kirwan sees it in such heroic terms and because he adopts music that reinforces those terms: an earnest, if slightly self-mocking singer emotes over martial rhythms, traditional Celtic folk instruments, a horn section, and dabs of rock guitar. ~ William Ruhlmann, All Music Guide
Home of the Brave
10/10/1994
All Music Guide Review
Home of the Brave Track Listing
Credits of Home of the Brave
- Jay Mark
- Engineer
- Mary Martello
- Vocals
- Doug McKean
- Digital Editing
- Fred Parcells
- Trombone, Brass Arrangement, Editing Assistant, Tin Whistle, Whistle (Human), Vocals
- Claudette Sierra
- Vocals
- David Vartanian
- Engineer
- Joe Warda
- Assistant Engineer
- Brendan Dolan
- Piano
- Josh Cheuse
- Art Direction, Photography, Design
- Rory Romano
- Assistant Engineer
- Randy Whiteman
- Assistant Engineer
- Black 47
- Main Performer
- Eileen Ivers
- Fiddle
- Tom Lord-Alge
- Mixing
- Geoffrey Blythe
- Clarinet, Sax (Tenor), Sax (Baritone), Sax (Soprano), Brass Arrangement
- Chris Byrne
- Pipe, Whistle (Human), Vocals
- Daniel Chase
- Sampling, Drum Programming
- Angel Fernandez
- Trumpet
- Thomas Hamlin
- Percussion, Drums, Djembe
- Kevin Jenkins
- Guitar, Guitar (Bass)
- Ted Jensen
- Mastering
- Dan Johnson
- Drums
- Danny Johnson
- Speech/Speaker/Speaking Part
- Larry Kirwan
- Guitar, Mandolin, Drums, Drum Programming, Producer, Vocals, Piano
- Jerry Harrison
- Keyboards, Producer
- Seamus Egan
- Banjo, Flute, Whistle (Human), Tin Whistle













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