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Sentimental Killer
Studio album by
ReleasedMarch 1992
RecordedJuly-August 1991
StudioWestland Studios, Dublin, Ireland
GenrePop, rock, New age[1]
Length42:40
LabelWarner Music
ProducerEric Visser
Mary Coughlan chronology
Uncertain Pleasures
(1988)
Sentimental Killer
(1992)
Love for Sale
(1992)

Sentimental Killer is an album by Irish Mary Coughlan that was released by East West Records, a subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

The song "Magdalene Laundry", written by Johnny Mulhern, refers to the Magdalen Asylums run by the Roman Catholic Church in which Irish prostitutes, unmarried mothers, developmentally-challenged women, and abused girls were incarcerated indefinitely.

Track listing

  1. "There is a Bed" (Marc Almond)
  2. "Hearts" (Jacques Brel)
  3. "Magdalen Laundry" (Johnny Mulhern)
  4. "Francis of Assisi" (Johnny Mulhern)
  5. "Love in the Shadows" (D. Long)
  6. "Ain't no Cure for Love" (Leonard Cohen)
  7. "Handbags and Gladrags" (Mike d'Abo)
  8. "Just a Friend of Mine"
  9. "Ballad of a Sad Young Man" (Fran Landesman, Tommy Wolf)
  10. "Not up to Scratch"
  11. "Sentimental Killer" (Johnny Mulhern)

Personnel

  • Mary Coughlan – vocals
  • Conor Barry – guitar
  • James Delaney – organ
  • Allan Murray – accordion
  • Davy Spillane – uilleann pipes
  • Paul Moore – bass
  • Peter McKinney – drums
  • Noel Eccles – percussion

References

  1. ^ "Sentimental Killer". AllMusic. Retrieved 10 September 2018.