I tried searching the board for any mention of this but didn’t see anything so forgive me if this was brought up before.
I was wondering if anyone had Green Linnet’s “25 Years of Celtic Music” (2001) and what they thought of it (Bloomy?). There’s two reviews on Amazon and both are positive but I trust the opinions here more. Sometimes those “various artist” CDs are a crap shoot…
I would pass that one by. First off, I distrust anything with the word “Celtic” in the title. Second, compilation albums like that one are Green Linnet’s way of screwing their artists. If the allegations in the law suit against GL are true, the tracks on these compilations were used without the artists permission and without paying them royalties. (The reason why I am not buying from Green Linnet anymore.)
Third, if you are looking for Irish Traditional Music, you won’t necessarily find it there. GL compilations are likely to contain Altan, Lunasa, Capercaille, that sort of thing. If you are into this music, I’d recommend you buy the early Altan CDs, the first and second Lunasa, and nothing from Capercaille (I am being unjust, I know). Admittedly, I prefer to buy whole records rather than samplers.
If there are particular artists on the track list of that album that you are interested in, let us know, and you’ll get some opinions here.
It just came across my radar so I was wondering (actually was listening to RadioCelt and they played the Kevin Burke cut which is a lilting version of “The Butterfly”).
I’m more into stuff like Music at Matt Malloy’s, or 1997 The Boys of the Lough CD (some title with “Friends” in it; I don’t have the case with me and the CD just has “Boys of the Lough” written on it) where different people are playing (i.e., “various artists”) but there’s still kind of a central tenet holding it together.
Since I know you’re a whistle player, Bloomy (or anyone else), you might be interested in this, although you’ve proabably already seen it. Some good tunes, kind of the “Joanie in the kitchen session” CD that everyone is encouraging on the whistle board but with just two flutes or whistles…
http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/skeltonohare/
I have it.
I bought it when it first came out before all the copyright problems came to light.
I think it is almost worth the full price to get the"First you must learn the grip" cut by Seamus Ennis and Jerry O’Sullivan’s Colonel Fraser.
No, not really. 
I haven’t played these discs for a very long time and these two cuts are the only ones I really was impressed with. You can probably get these with even more good stuff on the discs they originated from.
It’s also mostly Scottish stuff. And I’m not saying there is anything wrong with that. 