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Mary Coughlan: Sentimental Killer (East West)

Michele Kirsch, Select, May 1992

IN TERMS of her accent, Coughlan is to Ireland what the Proclaimers are to Scotland. She has an almost conversational approach to jazz blues, singing between the bit when cigarette leaves her lips and the whiskey glass reaches it, or so it sounds.

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