The Tracks of Sweeney

Infobox Album
Name = The Tracks of Sweeney
Type = Album
Artist = Sweeney's Men


Recorded = Livingstone Studios, Barnet in 1969
Released = 1969
Genre = Celtic
Length = ??:??
Label = Transatlantic
Producer = Bill Leader
Reviews = *Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:7sd3vwrva9ik~T1 link]
Last album = "Sweeney's Men"
(1968)
This album = "The Tracks of Sweeney"
(1969)|

"The Tracks of Sweeney" is an album by Sweeney's Men. It was first released in 1969 and re-released on CD in 1996, packaged together with "Sweeney's Men". One track on this album is frequently anthologised: "Hall of Mirrors". It is possibly the best folk-acoustic psychedelic Irish song, with mysterious images and echoes. The opening track "Dreams For Me" is another outstanding track, with an insistent guitar bass which transforms into a polka and back to a lament. "Afterthoughts" appears to show the influence of Nick Drake, but it is unlikely that Woods had heard songs from Drake's first album, released later in 1969.

Track listing

#"Dreams For Me" (Terry Woods)
#"The Pipe On The Hob" (instr) (Trad)
#"Brain Jam" (Terry Woods)
#"Pretty Polly" (Trad)
#"Standing On The Shore" (Trad)
#"A Mistake No Doubt" (Henry McCullagh/ Terry Woods)
#"Go By Brooks" (Cohen)
#"When You Don't Cry" (Terry Woods)
#"Afterthoughts" (Terry Woods)
#"Hiram Hubbard" (Trad)
#"Hall Of Mirrors" (Henry McCullagh)

Line-up

*Johnny Moynihan (vocal, bouzouki, tin whistle)
*Terry Woods (vocals, 6-string guitar, 12-string guitar, banjo, concertina).