Eleanor McEvoy – Love Must Be Tough (2008)
SACD Rip | SACD ISO | DST64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 50:07 minutes | 2.05 GB
Genre: Folk Rock | Publisher (label): Mosco Disc [MOSACD304]

(Hybrid SACD version also plays on all CD players and with 2 extra tracks) This album takes Eleanor into new territory, featuring other writers’ songs. The theme is Love, Romance and Loss, but not particularly in the context of Wealth, Youth or Obvious Allure. Terry Allen’s Lubbock Woman exemplifies the album’s theme. Love Must Be Tough speaks of realism and hope in love. Mostly featuring songs by men, Eleanor’s singing gives the titles a new twist. Listen to Rodney Crowell’s achingly beautiful Shame On The Moon and Butch Hancock’s wistful He Never Spoke Spanish To Me. The exception is Priscilla Bowman’s 1955 classic Hands Off Him with full Brass arrangement. Eleanor’s co-writing partnership with Dave Rotheray (The Beautiful South) is also featured on Old New Borrowed and Blue and The Night May Still Be Young (But I Am Not).

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Eleanor McEvoy – Early Hours (2004)
SACD Rip | SACD ISO | DST64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 42:28 minutes | 2.53 GB
Genre: Rock, Folk, World, Country | Publisher (label): Market Square ‎– MSM51SACD128

‘Early Hours’ takes Eleanor McEvoy’s music to new heights. Couched now in a mature jazz/blues context, her melodic and sensitive songs – packed as ever with wry, insightful social observation – benefit from first rate performances. “It would be a tragedy given the exquisite understated magnificence and warmth of these 42 minutes if all Eleanor McEvoy were remembered is ‘fl Woman’s Heart”. Eleanor’s Dido-before-Dido voice and some of the best happy/sad songs she has ever written plus deconstructed classics by Chuck Berry and Bert Jansch, this is her ‘White Ladder’, her ‘Life for Rent’. a triumph. MOJO. The appeal of early hours lies in it’s basic folk-roots simplicity, nothing is allowed to get in the way of the songs. Like good food McEvoy’s music requires no garnish. ” MAVERICK… The key word here is luxury because that is the musical feeling that this album creates. Make no mistake, this is an outstanding piece of musicianship. BBC RADIO 2 While Thea Gilmore gets all the attention, the similarly gifted Eleanor McEvoy has been busy honing a far-more affecting brand of singer-songwriterly femme-folk… imbued with the beauty of Judie Tzuke and the wordplay of Suzanne Vega. That’s a pantheon that McEvoy is eminently qualified to join, now is the time for it to happen. LOGO MAGAZINE One to give Katie Melua a run for her money. Ax MAGAZINE. 2006.

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Eleanor McEvoy – Out There (2006)
SACD Rip | SACD ISO | DST64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 49:48 minutes | 951 MB
Genre: Rock, Folk, World, Country | Publisher (label): Mosco Disc – [MOSACD303]

This new studio album from Ireland’s most accomplished female singer songwriter features twelve brand new tracks, including “Quote I Love You Unquote” written with Dave Rotheray of the Beautiful South. This collection of upbeat songs take a wry view on life, love and modern society. Eleanor does it all on this album, contributing vocals, guitars, mandolin, keyboards, electric bass and percussion on the disc! Highlights include covers of the Marvin Gaye classic “Mercy Mercy Me” and Lowell George’s “Roll Um Easy” and “Non-Smoking Single Female.”

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Eleanor McEvoy – Snapshots (1999)
SACD Rip | SACD ISO | DST64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 50:44 minutes | 825 MB
Genre: Folk Rock | Publisher (label): Mosco Disc [MOSACD305]

Irish singer/songwriter Eleanor McEvoy returned with her third release, Snapshots, with ’80s fixture Rupert Hine (the Fixx) at the production helm and lending guitar, keyboard, percussion, and background vocal assistance. Musically, the tone is light and breezy with Julia Fordham and Everything But the Girl’s Tracey Thorn being touchstones both vocally and lyrically. “All I Have,” co-written with Caroline Lavelle, chugs along nicely and “Wrapping Me Up in Luxury (Until the Morning Comes)” is an engaging midtempo shuffle about the comfort and security of being in love. The highlights are “Did You Tell Him?” which is dead-on in its literate description of the mixed emotions felt when a friend has bumped into a former lover, and the sax-driven “Please Heart, You’re Killing Me,” a jaunty track as inviting as a warm, summer day. McEvoy even spices things up with the dance beat of “Territory of Poets.” McEvoy is a talented and insightful writer with a pleasant voice that is capable of firepower, and Snapshots is an impressive display of her abilities.

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