title: Tired and Emotional
text: # Tired and Emotional
  
  Tired and Emotional is the debut album by Irish singer Mary Coughlan released in 1985 by East West Records, a subsidiary of Warner Music Group (at the time known as WEA).
  
  ## Reception
  
  The album sold an unexpected 100,000 copies in Ireland, partly because of a memorable appearance on The Late Late Show. It also received a B+ rating from rock critic Robert Christgau.
  
  ## Track listing
  
  * "Double Cross" (Fintan Coughlan)
  * "The Beach" (Antoinette Hensey, Erik Visser)
  * "Meet Me Where They Play the Blues" (Sammy Gallup, Steve Allen)
  * "Delaney's Gone Back on the Wine" (Johnny Mulhern)
  * "Sense of Silence (S.O.S.)" (Antoinette Hensey, Erik Visser)
  * "Nobody's Business/The Tango" (Erik Visser, Everett Robbins, Porter Grainger)
  * "Mama Just Wants to Barrelhouse All Night Long" (Bruce Cockburn)
  * "Country Fair Dance (The Cowboy Song)" (Gerry O'Beirne)
  * "Lady in Green" (Antoinette Hensey, Erik Visser)
  * "Seduced"
  
  ## Personnel
  
  * Mary Coughlan - vocals
  * Erik Visser - guitar, percussion
  * Declan Gibbons - guitar
  * Gerrard Coffey - guitar, executive producer
  * Greg 'Curly' Keranen - double bass
  * Micky Belton - drums
  * Tony Maher - accordion, synthesizer
  * Gerald O'Donoghue - percussion, engineer
  * Carl Hession - piano, synthesizer
  * Pat MacNamara - accordion
  * Johnny "Ringo" McDonagh - bones
  * Keith Donald, Tony Chambers - saxophone
  * Jimmy Higgins, Snr. - trumpet
  