Paddy on the Road

{{short description|Album by Christy Moore}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2014}}

{{Infobox album

| name = Paddy on the Road

| type = studio

| artist = Christy Moore

| cover = Paddy_On_The_Road_(1969).jpg

| alt =

| released = 1969

| recorded = 1969

| venue =

| studio = Sound Techniques Chelsea, London

| genre = Folk

| length = 38:56

| label = Mercury

| producer = Dominic Behan, Harold Shampan

| prev_title =

| prev_year =

| next_title = Prosperous

| next_year = 1972

}}

Paddy on the Road is the debut album by Irish folk musician Christy Moore, released in 1969.{{cite book

| last = Larkin

| first = C.

| title = The Virgin Encyclopedia of Eighties Music

| publisher = Virgin

| series = Virgin Encyclopedias of Popular Music Series

| year = 1997

| isbn = 978-0-7535-0159-7

| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=Hrs7AQAAIAAJ

| access-date = 6 July 2018

| page = 328

}} The album was produced and co-written by Dominic Behan.[http://www.nwipp-newspapers.com/UH/free/317773368596959.php Our folksy troubadors return]{{dead link|date=March 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}, The Ulster Herald, 7 June 2007. Steve Benbow organised the backing musicians and was responsible for the arrangements and conducting.

Although issued on a major label, Mercury Records, only 500 copies were pressed of the original 1969 issue.Unterberger, Richie: [{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r1087141|pure_url=yes}} Christy Moore – Paddy on the Road], Allmusic.

The song "Marrow Bones" is also known as "Tippin' It Up (to Nancy)".

Christy Moore has printed up a limited number of CD copies that, as of October 2010, are for sale at his gigs and his website.

In 2016, the album was re-released on vinyl for Record Store Day in the UK and Ireland, however the recording of this LP appears to be identical to the CD copy, which was a poor, non studio quality transcription of an original 1969 vinyl source and not from a master recording.

{{Album ratings

|rev1 = Allmusic

|rev1score = {{Rating|3.5|5}}[{{AllMusic|class=album|id=paddy-on-the-road-mw0001129246|pure_url=yes}} Allmusic review]

}}