Let The Record Show: Dexys Do Irish & Country Soul vinyl

No one has ever been able to tell Kevin Rowland what to do, and many might have tried to talk him out of doing an album largely comprised of traditional Irish songs, not to mention backing up this decision by giving the title an up-yours title like this one. Yet they'd all have been wrong, as this triumphant work proves. After all, few but Rowland would have to chutzpah reinvent Joni Mitchell's 'Both Sides Now' in the country soul idiom on the tin with quite such heartwarming results on the same album as the 18th century Irish song 'Carrickfergus', only two highlights on a brass-balled collection that serves as testimony to one of music's most enduring mavericks.