{"product_id":"bap-kennedy-the-big-picture-5029432005624","title":"The Big Picture","description":"The Big Picture is without doubt Bap Kennedys best album to date. A seamless blend of Celtic Soul and Southern Roots that features contributions from Van Morrison (at whose Somerset studios much of this album was recorded), Shane MacGowan and Carolyn Cassady, the widow of author Neal Cassady, who is heard on Moriartys Blues reciting from her book Off The Road.·Bap has also recruited a crop of hugely talented players that include Tom Waits bass-man Rory Macfarlane, Kieran Kiely - who has worked with Sinead OConnor, Shane and The Corrs - as well as pedal steel maestro BJ Cole and the ubiquitous guitar talents of James Walbourne.·From the tongue-in-cheek opener Rock And Roll Heaven - a dishonourable roll call of the fallen - to his heartbreaking love-song to Ireland The Beautiful Country, its clear that The Big Picture is a heavyweight album that tells, in many ways, Baps own story. For all Baps ups there have been just as many downs - all perfectly summed up on The Truth Is Painful, The Sweet Smell Of Success, the Van Morrison co-write Milky Way, and On The Mighty Ocean Alcohol - a self-explanatory tale that features Shane MacGowan on backing vocals, suitably recorded in a backroom of the Boogaloo, one of Londons most notorious drinking dens. Suffice to say that Bap has lived and the resultant self-depreciating humour and good natured cynicism has been captured on The Big Picture to great effect.","brand":"Loose","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53733876203862,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.momoxbooks.com\/products\/bap-kennedy-the-big-picture-5029432005624","provider":"momoxbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}