No Frontiers Explained

No Frontiers
Type:	Album
Artist:	Mary Black
Cover:	Blacknofrontiers.jpg
Released:	1989
Recorded:	April–June 1989
Studio:	Windmill Lane Studios, Dublin, Ireland
Genre:	Celtic
Label:	Dara Records
Producer:	Declan Sinnott
Prev Title:	By the Time it Gets Dark
Prev Year:	1987
Next Title:	Babes in the Wood
Next Year:	1991

No Frontiers is an album by Irish singer Mary Black. The album was one of Ireland's best selling albums of 1989 and introduced her to audiences elsewhere in Europe and in the United States and Japan.^[1] The album spent 56 weeks in the Irish Top 30.^[2]

Track listing

1. "No Frontiers" (Jimmy MacCarthy) – 3:57
2. "Past the Point of Rescue" (Mick Hanly) – 6:45
3. "The Shadow" (Donagh Long) – 5:46
4. "Carolina Rua" (Thom Moore) – 5:04
5. "Shuffle of the Buckled" (MacCarthy) – 4:17
6. "Columbus" (Noel Brazil) – 4:10
7. "Another Day" (MacCarthy) – 4:34
8. "Fat Valley of Pain" (Brazil) – 6:20
9. "I Say a Little Prayer" (Burt Bacharach, Hal David) – 5:34
10. "Vanities" (Brazil) – 4:38
11. "The Fog in Monterey" (Moore) – 4:02

Personnel

• Mary Black - vocals
• Declan Sinnott - guitars, harmony vocals, producer
• Pat Crowley - accordion, keyboards, harmony vocals
• Garvan Gallagher - double bass, harmony vocals
• Noel Bridgeman - percussion, harmony vocals
• Carl Geraghty - saxophone
• Dónal Lunny - synthesizer (tracks 1, 3, 6, 7)
• Caroline Lavelle - cello (tracks 3, 6)
• Mandy Murphy - backing vocals (tracks 2, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 11)
• Tony Davis - backing vocals (tracks 2, 9)

Technical

• DanDan FitzGerald - recording and mixing engineer

Notes and References

1. Web site: Mary Black . Management Promotion International . 2012-03-03 . "No Frontiers" followed and proved to be one of Ireland's best selling albums of 1989. It also established Mary in new markets in Europe, the US and Japan..
2. Web site: Mary Black to play three Ireland dates . . 24 November 2009 . 3 January 2016.