No Frontiers is a music

Music

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 album

Album

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 by Irish singer Mary Black

Mary Black

Mary Black is an Irish singer. She is well known as an interpreter of both folk and contemporary material which has made her a major recording artist in her native Ireland, and in many other parts of the world....

. This ground-breaking album assured Black's status as one of Ireland

Ireland

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's most respected artists in Europe

Europe

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 and also in the US, where the release of the album greatly increased her popularity. It went straight to the top of the Irish album chart and remained there for numerous weeks. No Frontiers remains as one of the biggest-selling albums in Irish history and has helped to define an era in Irish music.

Track listing

1. "No Frontiers" – 3:57
2. "Past the Point of Rescue" – 6:45
3. "The Shadow" – 5:46
4. "Carolina Rua" – 5:04
5. "Shuffle of the Buckled" – 4:17
6. "Columbus" – 4:10
7. "Another Day" – 4:34
8. "Fat Valley of Pain" – 6:20
9. "I Say a Little Prayer" – 5:34
10. "Vanities" – 4:38
11. "The Fog in Monterey" – 4:02

Musicians

• Declan Sinnott
  Declan Sinnott
  Declan Sinnott is an Irish musician and producer.Originally from Wexford, where his family ran a record shop in John Street, he came to Dublin in the late sixties. Around 1970 he was a member of the poetry-and-music group Tara Telephone, in which he composed, sang, and played guitar...
  
   - Guitars, harmony vocals, producer
• Pat Crowley - Accordion, keyboards, harmony vocals
• Garvan Gallagher
  Garvan Gallagher
  Garvan Gallagher is an Irish musician, best known as a Bass Guitar and Double-Bass player.He was also the Musical Director of the popular RTE children's puppet series Bosco, writing and recording over 200 songs for the series between 1981 and 1987...
  
   - Double bass, harmony vocals
• Noel Bridgeman - Percussion, harmony vocals
• Carl Geraghty - Saxophone
• Dónal Lunny
  Dónal Lunny
  Dónal Lunny is an Irish folk musician. Lunny has been at the forefront of the evolution of traditional Irish music for more than thirty-five years and has participated within the renaissance of traditional Irish music in that time period...
  
   - Keyboards
• Caroline Lavelle
  Caroline Lavelle
  Caroline Lavelle is a British singer-songwriter and cellist who has created three solo albums and contributed vocals, music, and production help to many other artists and bands.-Career:Lavelle studied at the Royal College of Music in London...
  
   - Cello
• Mandy Murphy - Backing vocals
• Tony Davis - Backing vocals