Muireann Bradley performs Candyman at Jools' Annual Hootenanny. Watch more Later... with Jools Holland on BBC iPlayer: bbc.co.uk/iplayer. Follow @BBCLater on Twitter or @laterwithjoolsholland on Facebook.
I was ill over new year and sat at home feeling sorry for myself whilst reluctantly watching Jools Holland. Meh. Then this young woman comes on and plays a Gary Davis song like she owns it. Unbelievable. I’ve been obsessed ever since.
Despite so many major recording artists in the room and to come towards the end of the night she still delivered a brilliant and self assured performance for her big debut..A huge talent👏👏👏
I met Gary Davis about 50 years ago after a life changing gig in Peterborough. His music is part of my emotional DNA. You did him proud Ms Bradley. The magic moment last night.
Great piece of theft! She sat down and sang and then calmly walked off with the entire show tucked under her arm. Loved the way she got a standing ovation, and didn't even notice because she had her back to the audience. Greatness beckons methinks!
She's been scaring the life out of Irish guitarists for a couple of years now. Finally the World will get to see this phenomenal talent. Just fantastic Muireann! x
This girl was sensational on Hootenanny. Far and away the most enjoyable and surprising performance of the night and a great antidote to all the grizzled fossils and other strained personalities that night. Beautiful performance, beautiful smile. Can’t ask for more.
Sensational performance for a 16 year old on a major stage. You could see how nervous she was and yet she held in there and brought it home like a pro. Absolutely gifted and making ireland and donegal proud
Another “seasick Steve” moment for Mr Holland, here is a glorious talent. Great to hear a classic song from 100 plus years get a fresh dusting down . I do hope we see and hear more from this young lady,
That's exactly what I thought when I was watching the hootenanny. That's what I love about Jools Holland, gives the opportunity to acts you might never become aware of otherwise.
Been watching this”unknown” kid just absolutely KILLLLLLLL it on RU-vid for the last few years. Pleasantly surprised to see she was on JOOLS show. She deserves to make it big. For those who don’t know, her style of playing pays homage to so many great delta blues and ragtime/folk players. This style of playing IS NOT EASY AT ALL! And she does it all with ease....with a great voice to go along with it. Cheers!!!!!!!!
Oh Muireann. You got a Gary Davis piece onto the Jools Holland show. That's a hell of an achievement and you play it properly too. Well done!! Simon Prager
A terrible reflection on our own station that she had to go to the BBC to get air time as she is not in the RTE loop , but a sincere thank you to Jules who picks talent regardless
@@kevindevane6175 You're right. Everyone should be proud of geographic coincidences. Ms Bradley singing like she's from the deep south of the USA shows the importance of such pride in one's Irish roots.
Muireann you are an inspiration to any young musician who is keeping the legacy of MJH/Blind Blake/Gary Davis and more alive today. I am a 70yr old blues guitarist and you just “out picked” me with your version of Candyman!!
Just one word, Unbelievable...her version of Blind Blake's 'Police Dog Blues' is mesmerising....and he was regarded as the most complex and gifted of the blues guitarists from that era.
So refreshing to see a performance and talent like this. One person with just a guitar captivating a room full of people. You should be very proud Muireann 🙏
She was given a standing ovation by the audience who were stars in their own right. She is going to be as big as Dolly Parton ( if she chooses to be that is)
It’s not very often that someone comes along and blows your mind like muireann did this evening. For someone so young to have the talent to steal the show when amongst legends of the music industry was simply astonishing. Pure talent on show tonight and thank you to jools for introducing muireann to the world. WOW 🥹👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
So true, such a pure innocent young talent, never fazed by anything in that room of the finest talents of the past half a century. Godspeed Muireann Bradley.
@@garymelnyk7910 I can't believe a grown man could listen to this screeching article but then again you probably think Daniel O'Donnell is also good and that other creature shane McGowan ffs get a life
I’m 27 and I can’t believe the music I love so much is being played and sang so amazingly by a younger generation…and from across the pond at that! What an amazing time to be a music lover.
Came in, thought cooool, someone's playing Elizabeth Cotton...turns out it's a kid NAILING it on one of the nations biggest live music shows! Fantastic! Well done kiddo!
I am so delighted that Muireann got on Jools Holland and I hope she continues to get the recognition she deserves. Been a fan for the last 2 years, it really does something to me to see someone so young playing such old music, with authenticity and class. She is amazing!
Astoundingly brilliant, comments here reflecting that this was a true stop and listen moment. Have in the 10 hours since bought the album, listened to it 3 times, and booked a seat at her forthcoming Glasgow gig. Love love love.
Celebrating Elizabeth Cotten who was born over 129 years ago this week (January 5, 1893 - June 29, 1987) Jerry Garcia was a big fan of Cotten's, so much so, that he did his own rendition to her song 'Shake Sugaree'. Although the Grateful Dead played their version 'Sugaree' for years and recorded it on a few different albums, Miss Cotton never received royalties for her work. In Miss Cotton's later years she worked as an in-house maid and nanny for a man who was a dead head. When the man figured out just who Miss Cotton was, he did everything possible to try to get Miss Cotton royalties for her work. The man wrote the record companies, the Grateful Dead organization and anyone else who could possibly help get Miss Cotton some royalties for 'Sugaree'. He finally wrote Jerry Garcia. To the man's surprise, he received a response from Garcia within days. In the letter Garcia was delighted to hear that Miss Cotton was still alive and he explained what an influence she had been on him and his guitar style. Garcia went on to explain that the royalties for "Sugaree" were under the record label's control so it was out of his hands but if Miss Cotton would allow him to record 'Oh Babe it Ain't No Lie' he would make sure that she received 100% of the royalties. From then until the end of her life she received a monthly check. One of Miss Cotton's friend asked her 'How you getting this money to buy all this new stuff?' Elizabeth Cotton replied, 'Some dead people out of San Francisco send it to me.' Anytime Jerry performed 'Oh Babe It Ain't No Lie', he deadicated it to her.
This is a lovely story, and the "Oh Babe" side of it might be true enough, but it's a stretch to say that the Garcia/Hunter "Sugaree" first recorded on the 1972 Garcia album is a "rendition" of Libba's song, given that it has a completely different approach, lyric-wise AND melody-wise. Sugaree is closer in spirit to a Tom Dooley or Tell Old Bill type of song, referring to approaching death or retribution from the law - "when they bring that wagon round", and please, please "just don't tell them that you know me", whereas Cotten's song is a lament to the fact that she has pawned everything she ever owned, but then again 'didn't I have a rare old time doing it, and didn't I "shake sugaree"' (a reference to throwing sugar on the floor and then dancing enthusiastically on it, producing percussive sounds when the dancers' feet move on the sugared floor). Robert Hunter most certainly knew Libba's song, just as Fred Neil did in 1966 (and Neil's song is a hundred times closer to the Cotten than is Sugaree). But since it's really only a copy in the NAME, and at most could be described as the 'inspiration' for the Garcia/Hunter/Dead tune, I'm at a bit of a loss as to why the deadhead in question thought there was a real case for paying her author's royalties on it. Hunter himself had this to say on the subject in the liner notes for the 2004 box set 'All Good Things: The Jerry Garcia Studio Sessions'. “People assumed that the idea was cadged from Elizabeth Cotten’s ‘Shake Sugaree’, but in fact, the song was originally titled ‘Stingaree’, which is a poisonous South Sea manta. Why change the title to ‘Sugaree’? I just thought it sounded better that way. It made the addressee seem more hard-bitten to bear a sugar-coated name. The song, as I imagine it, is addressed to a pimp. And, yes, I knew Libba’s song, and did indeed borrow the new name from her, suggested by the ‘shake it’ refrain.” Well, whatever. But if Jerry did what he did, good on him. Good man. 'Oh Babe It Ain't No Lie' featured briefly in the Dead's live repertoire during the 1980s. Nothing like as much as 'Sugaree', however, which was on the set-list for a quarter of a century and played over 300 times live.
This girl's absolutely got it. I could see Mississippi John Hurt inviting her up to do a few numbers with him-John Fahey too. She has the right "feel" for playing the blues, and the technique. She's just got it. Great stuff.
It’s driving me nuts trying to play that song like her. She sings so well that it’s easy to gloss over the guitar playing. It’s a mix of country picking and ragtime chord progression. Unusual, distinctive and seriously hard to play. Well done gal !!!
She is awesome- in fact, a breath of fresh air. So much music is overly produced to the point that it loses its soul these days. This was pure soul, style and talent. I hope that I get a chance to hear her live one day. Incredible that a 17 year old more than held her own within such talented company.
Just emotional to watch such technical brilliance and self assurance from someone so young and beautiful to boot. Set for stardom. I just wish John Renbourn were still alive to see and listen to this masterpiece of one of his favourites
This is very trad acoustic folk. Very emotive and clear as a belle. Candyman could be a cousin to Goodnight Irene by Leadbelly. What an improvised talent. 💝 .
