Help Me To Believe Paul Brady Help Me To Believe (Written by Paul Brady, Arranged by Brady, Lunny) Paul Brady Vocals, 12-String Guitar, Guitar, Keyboards, Whistles Donal Lunny Bouzouki, Bass Bodhrán, Backing Vocals Brendan Power Harmonicas

When asked to bring something to Common Ground, Paul Brady opted to reinterpret a song he had just recorded for his latest album, Spirits Colliding. The original version is mournful, even contemplative but when he took the song on the road in concert, he found it moved in a strikingly different direction - a swifter tempo, with urgency replacing plaintiveness and a hint of anger instead of resignation behind the lyrics. It was this approach he decided to take, and during recording there appeared to be some sort of telepathic communication between Paul and Donal as they played and sang together on 'Help Me To Believe'.

Help Me To Believe

Biography With songs born out of real feeling and sung with a passion few singers can match, Paul Brady has always carved out his own musical territory. Paul's early influences were a heady mixture of the swing and jazz of his parents' generation, the rock, pop, R 'n' B and country & western of his own era and, always, Irish traditional music and song. In the seventies he joined Planxty for a while, but after an acclaimed solo album, 'Welcome Here Kind Stranger', he decided it was time to move on. His album 'Hard Station', released in 1981, was a highly original reworking of his earlier influences - and Irish traditional music moved into the back seat. Four albums of Paul Brady songs followed in the eighties. With his latest album, 'Spirits Colliding', Paul Brady once more demonstrates his astonishing musical vocabulary.

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