Elvis Costello

It's so soothing to him.

I wish he'd record it, you know.

Oh, yeah.

That was, you know, that's undeniable.

You see, I was being a purist.

I mean, I think Shane was very enamored of weights.

Tom Waits, you know.

And I think he wanted the jazz kind of inference of the flugel, which ended up, of course, Dick Cuthbert played a beautiful player and I worked with him before.

I was thinking Sean O'Reader.

That's why I wanted the oboe.

You know, I was thinking back, connected to where the classical instruments were actually put into, you know, the first really concert versions of Irish traditional.

Yeah, totally.

Which is something, I mean, I'm not saying that I knew better.

My dad really grew up in a part of Birkenhead that was almost, it was completely Irish.

There weren't any other people there.

Catholic Irish from the North.

And he had a very wide, both my parents had very wide taste in music.

My mother liked many, many things that would surprise you.

But my father, alongside classical records and jazz records, and the records that he was obliged to just learn to be a performer on the radio and in the dance hall, he had records.

He had the first Chieftain's album.