Rude Awakening (Andy Irvine album)

Rude Awakening
Studio album by
Released1991
RecordedDecember 1990 & January 1991
StudioWestland and Ringsend Studios, Dublin and Frank MacNamara's Park Studio, County Meath
GenreIrish folk music
Length51:09
LabelGreen Linnet Records, (USA)
ProducerBill Whelan
Andy Irvine chronology
Parallel Lines
(1982)
Rude Awakening
(1991)
East Wind
(1992)

Rude Awakening[1] is Andy Irvine's second solo album, recorded in December 1990 and January 1991 at Westland and Ringsend Studios, Dublin and Frank MacNamara's Park Studio, County Meath, and released in 1991 on Green Linnet Records.[2]

It was produced by Bill Whelan with a line-up that included Whelan himself (keyboards, percussion), Rens van der Zalm (fiddle, mandolin, guitar), Carl Geraghty (soprano saxophone), Arty McGlynn (guitars), Davy Spillane (whistle) and Fionnuala Sherry (fiddle).[2]

  1. ^ Andy Irvine – Rude Awakening, Green Linnet GLCD 1114, 1991.
  2. ^ a b Sleeve notes from Andy Irvine – Rude Awakening, Green Linnet GLCD 1114, 1991.