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Melonie Bayl-Smith discusses Clannad's album 'Magical Ring' and its impact on the band's career.

Melonie Bayl-Smith returns to the program with an album by the Irish band Clannad. Released at a turning point in their career in the early 1980s, the album sees the group mixing their established traditional folk sound with contemporary, cutting-edge technology to great commercial success. Like what you hear? Sign up at patreon.com/idbuythatpodcast to get exclusive content (episodes on 45s!), or tell a friend about us. Broke and have no friends? Leave us a review, it helps more people find us. Thanks!

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