Heya,
I just came back from Doolin, and guess who was playing at O’Connors pub? Christy Barry himself! Well, he’s playing there often, so not really an event. Anyway, he released his new CD, and was available to purchase. It’s very good, especially the, yeah, “Chisty Barry’s” set… Anyway, would recommend the CD…
I received a copy as a gift myself. A great album! The first thing I did was to sit down and learn the Christy Barry’s set. A great set of tunes!
Yeah, amazing set. He plays them on a Eb, had to go and get an Eb so that I could play along hehe. I almost went and asked him to play the set in the session, but I resisted the temptation…
I’m going CRAZY!
I’ve checked everyplace I buy CD’s and can’t find Christy Barry’s.Do you know where I can get a copy.
On 2002-04-24 16:27, Tom wrote:
I’m going CRAZY!
I’ve checked everyplace I buy CD’s and can’t find Christy Barry’s.Do you know where I can get a copy.
Custy’s has it, maybe buy there in future. There is a serious caveat though, your man is joined by accordeon player Conor McCarthy and Cyril O Donohue. Personally I find it impossible to listen to the accordeonplaying without serious damage to my tastebuds.
Barry by the way owns Astra travel agency in Ennistymon and books trips/music tuition through there. If you fancy that sort of thing.
In case you need it,
Heya Peter,
Yeah, I don’t like the box myself, but I dont find it that bad on the recording, there’s a few tunes without the box anyway. Hmm at least there’s some whistle action. Any idea why he decided to use an Eb?
Talking of Custys, I ordered a couple of records from them last week and they arrived today. One was the Tommy McCarthy CD and it came complete with a handwritten note letting me know about the Tommy McCarthy Memorial Concert! A nice touch.
The other is a glorious record called “Music from the Coleman Country”, originally released in the early 1970s, with great musicians like Fred Finn, Peter Horan and Séamus Tansey playing in duets and ensembles. I used to have a tape of it which somebody eloped with years ago, to my chagrin, so I was delighted to see it had been reissued on CD.
The thing I hadn’t noticed though was that it is now called “Music from the Coleman Country Revisited”.
The “revisiting” lies partly in the fact that one nice solo fiddle track has been added, but more that preceding every cut there is a new track consisting of Séamus Tansey rabbitting on as though it were a radio program and he the presenter.
His introductory remarks were quite interesting, but to have him speaking before every piece of music quickly gets irritating . I would much rather the record company had put all this stuff in a single track at the end of the disc.
Luckily the music is fabulous. For whistle enthusiasts there is a truly wonderful solo performance of Miss McLeod’s on what I’m sure is a Clarke C whistle by the late Jim Donaghue - whistle playing as fine as you’ll hear.
[ This Message was edited by: StevieJ on 2002-04-26 08:40 ]