Paddy Casey

   
Artist: Paddy Casey

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Discography:


   
 Living

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 12

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Irish singer/songwriter Paddy Casey's years as a busker on the streets of Galway and his home town of Dublin served him well. Not only did it allow him to associate from an early age with future prison-breaking artists like Glen Hansard (of the Frames), Mundy, and Mark Dignam, merely he developed a lancinating instinct for the type of melody and songwriting that ar immediate and sensational, only with a natural intimacy not oftentimes heard in conventional pop music. Though an admitted pure individual buff, Casey performs music that is heavily informed by its medium -- the vocalizer and his acoustic guitar -- coming across as if Bob Dylan had taken to imitating Nina Simone, with elements of Prince and Public Enemy thrown and twisted in for right measuring rod.


Casey began busking on Dublin's streets in the early '90s piece noneffervescent in his early teens. In 1998, the heartfelt street player became a cog in the major-label machine, sign language to Sony subsidiary S2 Records at the behest of Spencer Davis Group bassist turned A&R piece Muff Winwood, wHO had spotty Casey performing in Dublin and quick became soft on. Heading into the studio later that year just to transmit some basic ideas to tape, Casey unknowingly wound up transcription his debut album, Amun (So Be It). Released in June of 1999, the album debuted in the Top Twenty of the Irish albums graph, eventually sledding triple platinum, and was awarded the Best Debut Album prize at the Hot Press Irish Music Awards. Perhaps an excessively self-aware statement of the artist's various palette, the album was nonetheless realised, with a reach of styles integrated into his folky somebody core, from jazz to funk to reggae, and with rap music beats and scratches subtly incorporated; however, Amun (So Be It)'s near adorable moments were its simplest, and Casey soon became well known for his Dylan-esque protest vocal "Sweet Suburban Sky," which was featured conspicuously on U.S. tv show Dawson's Creek.


Though the record album was released in the U.S. in June of 2000, over trine years passed in front a follow-up was issued, an explanation for his absence alluded to in its title. Living was issued in Ireland in October of 2003 and in the U.K. in March of 2004, following the unprecedented success in Ireland of star single "Saints and Sinners," finally leaving 12 times pt. The same year, Casey recorded deuce tracks for greek valerian album Even Better Than the Real Thing, Vol. 2: a modern arrangement of "Saints and Sinners" featuring the Dublin Gospel Choir, and an acoustic rendering of Blackstreet's "No Diggity" (a longtime live favorite).Living was reissued in Ireland in November of 2004 as a double-disc rig including B-sides and rarities. The staggered release of the record album lED Casey to be esteemed with the Best Irish Male prize at both the 2004 and 2005 Meteor Irish Music Awards. During the get-go half of 2007, Casey recorded his one-third studio album, Addicted to Company, Pt. 1, featuring a guest visual aspect by former bandmate and solo artist Declan O'Rourke. It was released in Ireland and the U.K. the following September, with the title lead at the same time released as a single.





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