"All I ever wanted was for people to feel what I feel; the magic of music" - Bap Kennedy, 2016
Bap Kennedy - The Albums (solo, original):
Reckless Heart
(Nominated for the N Ireland Music Prize)
Reckless Heart is Bap's final album. He had just finished recording it before he took ill in 2016. In accordance with Bap's wished, it was posthumously released (2017)
(All songs written by Bap Kennedy)
(All songs written by Bap Kennedy)
Listen to Reckless Heart
Let's Start Again
Let's Start Again was recorded in the studios of the legendary Mudd Wallace, and is the only album Bap ever made in his native Belfast. It features the guitar genius of Pete O'Hanlon, and "the only Irishman to play at Woodstock" Henry McCullough (ex Wings)
(All songs written by Bap Kennedy)
(All songs written by Bap Kennedy)
Listen to Let's Start Again
The Sailor's Revenge
The Sailor's Revenge is the outcome of a close creative collaboration between Bap & Mark Knopfler, with Mark helping to select the songs. The album displays the "celtic melancholy" aspect of Bap's music which Mark Knopfler particularly admired. Knopfler produced The Sailor's Revenge, played guitar (& sang backing vocals on one track)
(All songs written by Bap Kennedy)
(All songs written by Bap Kennedy)
Listen to The Sailor's Revenge
Howl On
Howl On is Bap's tribute to the astronauts of the Apollo Missions of the 1960's. It includes one of his best loved songs, Howl On as well as his country rock version of Hey Joe, which was always a favourite in his live set.
(All songs written by Bap Kennedy, except Hey Hoe)
(All songs written by Bap Kennedy, except Hey Hoe)
Listen to Howl On
The Big Picture
The Big Picture was produced in Van Morrison's studio and features Milky Way, a song which was written by Bap & Van Morrison during the making of the album.
(All other songs written by Bap Kennedy)
(All other songs written by Bap Kennedy)
Listen to The Big Picture
Lonely Street
Lonely Street features Bap's ballad Moonlight Kiss, which used for one of the key scenes in hit rom-com Serendipity (starring John Cusack and Kate Beckinsale), which has become a modern-day Christmas classic.
Bap would later dedicate the title track of the album to the autism charity Autism NI of which he later became co-patron along with his wife, Brenda Boyd Kennedy.
(All songs written by Bap Kennedy}
Bap would later dedicate the title track of the album to the autism charity Autism NI of which he later became co-patron along with his wife, Brenda Boyd Kennedy.
(All songs written by Bap Kennedy}
Listen to Lonely Street
Domestic Blues
Domestic Blues was Bap's first solo album after his band Energy Orchard disbanded. It was recorded in Nashville, TN and produced by the "Twang Trust" of Steve Earle & Ray Kennedy.
(All songs written by Bap Kennedy, except Angel Is The Devil)
(All songs written by Bap Kennedy, except Angel Is The Devil)