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THE LYRIC FEATURE Lyric FM, Sunday, 6pm MARTY IN THE MORNING Lyric FM, weekdays, 7am THE PAT KENNY SHOW Newstalk, weekdays, 9am
Ifirst heard about Mellow Candle from the late, great rock and roll writer, Bill Graham. I recall his enthusiasm for their album Swaddling Songs, and the fact that this unusual band seemed to belong to an ancient period in Irish folk rock.
Yet at the time it was probably no more than 10 years since Swaddling Songs had been recorded, in 1972. And now it has been rediscovered in a serious way by aficionadoes of the present day - indeed the copy of the album Bill was talking about was probably an original pressing that would now be worth a few thousand quid.
The story of Mellow Candle was told in The Lyric Feature by Cathal Funge, and it is a marvellous story, with a sad ending back in the 1970s, but with a joyful sense of revival in the fullness of time. For enabling important work like this to be made, Lyric
FM justifies its existence over and over.
Originally the band consisted...