Wearing of the Green: Paul Brady at The Narrows

Narrows' volunteer Jennifer poses with Paul Brady after the show

Irish singer/songwriter Paul Brady worked the guitar and piano, as well as an enthusiastic crowd that called him back for two encores (very rare), at the Narrows Saturday night. It was his debut performance at our esteemed listening venue.

He's best known here for writing tunes covered by Bonnie Raitt, Joe Cocker, Tina Turner and others, but we understand he's huge on the Emerald Isle, which he still calls home--though he confessed to living a few months in Perryville, Rhode Island (part of South Kingstown) with folksinger Patrick Sky in the late 1960s or thereabouts. (Patrick Sky, by the way, was a wild man, though he's sort of gone legit these days.)