Parallel Lines (Dick Gaughan & Andy Irvine album)

Parallel Lines
Studio album by
Released1982
RecordedAugust 1981
StudioTonstudio in
St Blasien/Herrenhaus, Northeim, Germany
GenreIrish and Scottish folk music
Length42:33
LabelFolkFreak-Platten, Ebergotzen
ProducerDick Gaughan, Andy Irvine, Carsten Linde
Dick Gaughan chronology
Handful of Earth
(1981)
Parallel Lines
(1982)
Andy Irvine chronology
Rainy Sundays... Windy Dreams
(1980)
Parallel Lines
(1982)
Rude Awakening
(1991)

Parallel Lines is a one-off album by Dick Gaughan and Andy Irvine, recorded in August 1981 at Günter Pauler's Tonstudio in St Blasien/Herrenhaus, Northeim, Germany, and released in 1982 on the German FolkFreak-Platten label.

It was produced by Gaughan, Irvine and Carsten Linden with a line-up including Gaughan (acoustic and electric guitars, bass guitar and vocal), Irvine (bouzouki, mandola, mandolin, harmonica, hurdy-gurdy, vocal), Nollaig Casey (fiddle), Martin Buschmann (saxophone), Judith Jaenicke (flute) and Bob Lenox (Fender Rhodes piano). Dónal Lunny also overdubbed the fiddle parts and remixed the album at Lombard Sound Studios in Dublin.