Andy Irvine and Paul Brady
a classic: This album is essential. The talent that is collected on this album can only be called amazing. I think this could be my favorite traditional album. It's a shame that there aren't more albums like this. Check out Arthur McBride and Lough Erne - [... more]
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Journey Best Of
From Amazon.com: Dónal Lunny (pronounced "Loony") is a guitar and bouzouki virtuoso, composer, bandleader, producer, and promoter who has founded, sat in with, recorded, and presented more than 30 years' worth of epoch-making Irish acts. [... more]
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Words & Music
It's very good, but...: I love Planxty, but I am not sure if I totally embrace this album. The instrumental tracks are outstanding. Liam O'Flynn's piping is great, and the tunes are expertly and beautifully arranged (the "Irish Marche," the [... more]
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The Hour Before Dawn
From Amazon.com: Solas have become one of the world's most exciting Celtic bands by combining a respect for tradition with an adventurous musical spirit. On their fourth CD, The Hour Before Dawn, they gently stretch the boundaries of Irish music by [... more]
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Irish Voices
Artist: Various Artists Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0714822702027 Format: Compilation Original Release Date: 1997-04-08 Release Date: 2002-11-22 UPC: 714822702027 Tracks: Humours of the King of Ballyhooley - Andy Irvine, Patrick Street Stór Mo Chro& [... more]
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Planxty
From Amazon.com: In 1972, Christy Moore brought together uilleann piper Liam O'Flynn, Dónal Lunny and Andy Irvine and formed Planxty (the name is a term for a song composed for a paying client). This, their first album, was a watershed for the [... more]
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Nobody Knows - the Best of Pau
More than I expected...: You know how it is - you buy an album based on what you've heard before - more often than not, you're disappointed. Fact is, I've been a BIG fan of Paul Brady and Andy Irvine doing Trad Irish... and, I couldn't help but notice [... more]
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Flesh And Bone
From Amazon.com: The highlight of this record, the song I return to again and again, is Kaplansky's cool, troubling take on the old ballad "Mary and the Soldier." An east coast folkie who came of age with Shawn Colvin, Kaplanksy's own material [... more]
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Way Over Yonder
From Amazon.com: Although Andy Irvine has been an integral part of three of Irish music's most innovative bands--Sweeney's Men in the 1960s, Planxty in the 1970s, and Patrick Street in the 1990s--he has released very little music under his own name, and [... more]
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Hearts Desire
From Amazon.com: Like June Tabor and Jean Redpath, Irish singer Niamh Parsons (pronounced Neeve Parsons) has a nimble yet long-breathed alto capable of endless and elusive shades of emotion. On this set, which is dedicated to her late father, her [... more]
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Songlines
a voice like a throaty wind-instrument: Karan Casey's voice is wonderful, and the mix on this record goes from rollicking to lyrical, where Karan Casey especially shines. You'll never read Yeats the same way after hearing her rendition of "The [... more]
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Eileen Ivers & Immigrant Soul
Slick and Clichéd: The concept of melding Celtic music traditions with African, American, and Latin conventions sounds better than it actually, well, sounds when you hear it. Eileen Ivers and the array of diverse musicians who created Immigrant [... more]
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