“Only weeks after turning 17 in December, Muireann Bradley played an atmospherically lit solo spot on Jools Holland’s Hootenanny. Born and bred in County Donegal, she sang the traditional blues song Candyman – taught to revivalists by the renowned gospel musician Reverend Gary Davis in the mid-20th century – with a light and frisky southern US accent, fingerpicking her guitar with playful dexterity”
