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- Phil Corriveau
- Username: philc
- Location: Madison, WI
- Joined PRX: Jun 01, 2005
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- "Michael and the Mare"
- Summary: Michael, a fisherman's gilly in the County Mayo, discovers there's more than one way to skin a horse!
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Review of Michael and the Mare
Phil Corriveau
Posted on August 20, 2006 at 02:26 PM
The storytelling is superb, marred only by the poor quality of the recording. Producer Jackson Braider skillfully mixes music with the voice of Irish storyteller Bob O'Connell, recorded in 1962. The strength of the story almost carries it off, but the recording sounds as if it had been filtered through a telephone, and the piece is far too long to sustain listener engagement with that sound quality, in my opinion. It is a good archival piece, but questionable for radio.