With her first album on T & M, Ireland’s leading vocal stylist reaches out to her broad fan base again and proves that she’s back on top of her creative abilities. For RED BLUES, Mary Coughlan has carefully chosen a wonderful bunch of songs from the jazz, blues and pop repertoire and interprets them with her very own mix of dignity and emotion, honesty and integrity. With the help of a select group of musicians led by pianist Peter O’Brien and Canadian string wizards TRI-CONTINENTAL, this artist has clearly overcome her personal problems and is back where she belongs: in a class of her own, with a variety of songs ranging from "Pull Up To The Bumper" to "Strange Fruit". A one-of-a-kind singer with an album rich on variety and atmosphere.