THE LEGACY

The Album: The Long Black Veil (RCA Victor, 1995) The Sound:

Cynics may have dismissed Moloney’s collaborative genius as commercial opportunism, but it’s impossible to resist the sheer joy of his greatest triumph, consummately setting some unlikely partners in a traditional idiom. Ry Cooder and Mark Knopfler notably star, The Rolling Stones play Rocky Road To Dublin, and we even hear Sting singing in Irish.