Heard A Long Gone Song

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Heard A Long Gone Song, her first album for River Lea, Rough Trade's label, is a collection of traditional pieces interspersed with her own. The sense of ownership that Lisa infuses into these old songs, coupled with the immutability of her chosen subjects, makes it difficult to distinguish which are which. The album begins with a completely unaccompanied rendition of The Galway Shawl, first collected in 1936 but made famous by Alan Lomax's 1956 recording of the great Margaret Barry. Recorded in a rural studio near the Loire Valley, Heard A Long Gone Song was produced by David Odlum and Lisa O'Neill. It follows her highly acclaimed self-produced album from 2016, Pothole In The Sky, with a personally political record, uniquely beautiful, heartfelt, and full of spirit. And perhaps as timeless as the transmitted songs that Lisa sings as if they belonged to her.