Thought I’d list the CDs that are currently spinning in my player. If someone wants to add theirs to the thread, it’ll make an interesting reference for everybody else. All include whistle (except where noted), either as a primary instrument or as an accompaniment:
Band/Artist**********************Title
FLOOK “Rubai”
FLOOK “Flatfish”
Gordon Duncan “Thunderstruck” (pipes, includes an insane version of AC/CD’s “Thunderstruck” on Highland Pipes)
Christina Harrison “Lassie Wi’ The Lint-White Locks” (singer)
Rod Paterson “Up To Date” (singer)
Rod Paterson “Songs From The Bottom Drawer” (sings Robert Burns)
Tony McManus “Tony McManus” (guitar)
Tony McManus “Pourquoi Quebec?”
Tony McManus “Ceol More”
Bagad Kemper “Azeliz Iza” (crazy band from Brittany)
Tony Cuffe “Sae Will We Yet” (singer)
J.M.Veillon/Y.Riou “PontGwenn ha Pont Stang” (Flute/Guitar)
J.M.Veillon/Y.Riou “Beo!”
(Thanks for the recommendation Zoob!!! )
C.Breatnach/M/Dunlea “Music for Whistle and Guitar”
El McMeen “The Lea Rig”
W.Jackson/McKenzie “Notes from a Hebridean Island” (great record!)
I picked up Kate Rusby’s “Hourglass” a few weeks ago. I love this album. Irish/english tales, some happy, some mournful. I love to find those songs that make me cry . . . I’m not sentimental at all, but there’s something in her delivery that makes some of these tracks so darn sad. Favorites: “Annan Waters”, “A Rose in April”, “I am Stretched Out on your Grave”, and “Old Man Time”, the latter being her composition. Tony McManus plays on two of the songs.
I’m with Lily and Soin – Red Rice is one of my all-time favorite records. How Liza switches from the straightforward trad to the twisted stuff is remarkable.
Current faves: All 3 Deanta albums, all 4 by Connie Dover, the Glute Geezers (from Rich’s website), and a few Yes albums from the classic lineup, especially Close to the Edge. And, just in, the Renaissance BBC sessions.
Always in my mind are most of Steeleye Span, Planxty, Renaissance, a lot of Romantic trios (Brahms, Dvorak, Ravel), Beethoven symphonies. There’s just so much good music out there that it’s difficult sometimes to listen to my own tooting.
I can’t say that I’ve been listening to a lot of whistle music lately. I’ve been playing a lot though.
I’m really stuck on Jesse Cook. Robbie Robertson is a runner up and then the Chieftans, a bit of Flook thrown in there as well. And Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong…
Me too! Probably because I saw them in concert only a few weeks ago , bought both CDs on the spot, and love Sarah Alla’s Staccato pops and Brian Finnigan’s triple-tonguing. My fave track is ‘Pressed for Time’.
I’m also listening to TPTestcard a lot, and I’m loving a track ‘Paddy’s Paradise’ from Phil Hardy’s 1st Album.
I listen to a lot of different things but some recent favourites are:
Naked Raven, Kate Rusby, Waterson/Carthy, John Doyle, Paddy Canny, John Williams solo outings and the Vegh Quartet recordings of the Beethoven string quartets.
I’ve also been listening to Dervish and Sharon Shannon. Also Bothy Band, some Chieftains and a Newfoundland band called The Navigators. Dervish is coming to the midwest in October! Woo hoo!
Peter Horan and Fred Finn, Music of Sligo
A Crowd of Bold Sharemen, A Crowd of Bold Sharemen
Lunasa, Redwood
Dervish, Midsummer’s Night
Kevin Burke, Sweeny’s Dream
Rory Campbell and Malcolm Stitt, Nusa
The Duhks, Your Daughters and Your Sons
Emile Benoit, Vive La Rose
Le Vent du Nord (heard them about five times live in the last ten days)
Need to get more Newfoundland stuff into my listening cycle, so I’m ready for this summer’s vacation…
I am so out of the loop. I don’t know who 90% of the people listed are.
Here are the other cds I’ve been listening to (but not actually in my cd player).
Tracey Chapman, the first one
Sinéad O’Connor, Troy Dance Remixes
Melanie C, Nothern Star
Silverchair, The Best Of
Fiona Apple, When The Pawn Hits The Conflict He Thinks Like A King What He Knows Throws The Blows When He Goes To The Fight & He’ll Win The Whole Thing 'Fore He Enters The Ring There’s No Body To Batter When Your Mind Is Your Might So When You Go Solo , You Hold Your Own Hand & Remember That Depth Is The Greatest Of Heights & If You Know Where You Stand, Then You Know Where To Land & If You Fall It Won’t Matter, Cuz You’ll Know That You’re Right
Melissa Etheridge, Breakdown
The CDs I’ve been listening to the most lately are Tommy People’s new CD, which is rediculously beautiful, John Doyles album, and the albums with Noel Hill and Tony McMahon (one with Iarla Leonard as well). Good stuff.
Chris
If you want to check out Newfoundland music here is a good link: http://juke.cfog.net/index.htm . You can listen to entire albums on this site. Unfortunately there’s nothing from the Navigators or the Fables, which are two of my favorites, but Fine Crowd is good (although they have since split up). There is also some good trad stuff on the Great Big Sea albums, although there is a lot of pop as well. Someday I’ll make it up there…
Good stuff indeed! I bought the album ‘I gCnoc na Grai’ by Noel Hill and Tony MacMahon,featuring Clare set dancers,recorded ‘live’ in a Pub (yaay! ) and it’s great!
On the strength of that album,I just ordered ‘Aislingi Ceoil’ (the one featuring Iairla Leonard) this morning.
Other stuff currently filling my ears;
Ronan Browne - ‘The Wynd you know’
Willie Clancy and Bobby Casey
John Docherty ‘Bundle and Go’
Seamus Ennis - various recordings
assorted Uilleann Pipers
Professor Longhair ‘Fess- the P.L. Anthology’
Elmore James ‘The sky is crying’.
Nice website. Now listening the Plankerdown Band album from it – I learned a bunch of the album’s tune sets last year, but I don’t actually have my own copy.
As soon as I get around to it, I’m going to make a nice mix album with tunes from them, Rufus and Emile, Crowd of Bold Sharemen, Christina Smith, etc. Try to learn them all…
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, bought both CDs on the spot, and love Sarah Alla’s Staccato pops and Brian Finnigan’s triple-tonguing. My fave track is ‘Pressed for Time’.