I am having a brain fart right now. I can’t think of great bands right now. Can someone recommend some good cds from Dervish, Solas, and Danu. I am having difficulties right now of thinking of other bands and artists. Maybe some of M.Molloy’s best cd.
I currently have:
CTL
Lunasa
M.McGoldrick’s Fused and Wired
all of Crawford’s
WFO
Grada
and a lot of mixed cds of different artists.
I just can’t really think of all the ones I have now, or ones I need to get. Sorry and thanks for the help.
Also, I would love to buy some cds off of people that would be willing to reduce their collection. If that is legal of course. I really don’t know the law on buying used cds.
Well, Chieftains’ Water from Well is super awesome even if you’re not normally their fan.
Running through my collection:
Brian McAodha - Throw away the keys
Gay, Connor, Sean Mckeon - Dusty miller (if you like pipes)
Joe+Antionette McKenna - anything
O’Flynn, Keane, Molloy - the fire aflame
Those are band-ish. If you like solo pipers as well, I can supply you with ten times as long list
Kitty Lie Over - Mick O’Brien and Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh
North by Northwest - Eliot Grasso and Dave Cory
Eavesdropper - Kevin Burke and Jackie Daly
Contentment is Wealth - Matt Molloy and Sean Keane
Doublin’ - Paddy Glackin and Paddy Keenan
The South West Wind and/or Touch Me If You Dare - Ronan Browne and Peter O’Loughlin
Molloy Brady Peoples - Matt Molloy, Paul Brady & Tommy Peoples
I recommend these as they are all commercially available. Good players and good tunes. You wouldn’t do bad to search for more solo or group CD’s from the above players either. You can also go for Chieftains (the first four albums are available in a set and probably the best place to start), Bothy Band, Patrick Street, etc. All are commercially available at this time.
If you like solo piping I’d recommend anything in Seamus Ennis’ or Willie Clancy’s catalogue. Matt Molloy (as you mentioned) is a good source too. His “Live from Matt Molloy’s Pub” is an interesting album. Some of his albums get a little flowery for my taste but good tunes and playing nonetheless (IMHO). The one he released a few years back with John Carty was nice too.
Another good place for tunes (and free too!) is to download the live kitchen sessions from Clare FM.
I like some of Altan’s stuff.
The Kells do some nice stuff but it’s not all I Trad. Brian McCoy is a fine whistler/fluter/piper and they have good bodhran playing.
Personally this lot is more my kind of thing, and as an added bonus they often cost half the price of a modern band.
The star above the Garter;.Dennis Murphy and Julia Clfford
Trad music of Ireland; Kathleen Collins
Traditional Irish Accordion; Tony MacMahon
Memories of Clare; Bobby Gardiner
Anything by; Seamus Creagh, fiddle
Irish traditional concertina styles; comp
Clare concertinas; Bernard O Sullivan and Tommy MacMahon
Irish traditional concertina and fiddle music; John Kelly
Traditional accordion and concertina music from Sliabh Luacra.; Jackie Daly
Kerry fiddles;Padraig O’Keefe, J Clifford, D Murphy
The piping of Seamus Ennis
The pipering of Willie Clancy
The piping of Johnny Doran
-Patrick Kelly from Cree
ditto for Joe Ryan [solo cd]
anything by Bobby Casey
The sound of Coleman country; comp CD CC001.[heritage centre]
Farewell to Ireland vol 1,and 2 [proper records]P1110
happy to meet, sorry to part CDORBD 092
mysterious Ireland . green velvet GV98014
Milestone at the garden [ Rounder CD1123}
Past masters of Irish Fiddle topicTSCD605
paddy in the smoke[topic TSCD 603]
Jack and charlie coen; tha branch line [green linnet GLCD 3067]
Galway to Dublin rounder CD1087]
a
treasury of irish music 2 and 3[ Gael linn CDTCD 005
Irish traditional music [temple COMD3079
Wheels of the world 1and 2 [shanachie YAZOO7008/9]
The brass fiddle[cc44cd claddagh]
Masters of Tradition (RTÉ)
31 tunes, available on iTunes at an irresistible price. (I promise, I’m not Steve Jobs trying to get away with a commercial post)
I went with FluteDude’s advice and downloaded the Masters of Tradition tunes, and it is really worth the money: 31 tunes for $9.99. A VERY nice collection. Thanks for the recommendation, FluteDude!
I don’t think I’d be playing Irish music today had I not acquired “Music from Sliabh Luachra Vol. 6” which is the Jackie Daly album mentioned above by fiddlerwill. There’s another brilliant album by Jackie Daly and Seamus Creagh which, I think, is called just that. I also second the recommendation for “Eavesdropper.” Anything by Planxty, Altan (if you get just one Altan album go for Island Angel) the Bothies and Patrick Street (as long as it’s from their first four albums: Patrick Street, No 2, Irish Times, All In Good Time). I couldn’t live without The Andy Irvine/Paul Brady album from the 70s, likewise the superb one-off Noel Hill/Tony Linnane album.
Howdy. I’m new here and have recently discovered the song Tripswitch by At First Light, suggested on the Youtube video thread under the tin whistles and such forum. Now I can’t stop listening to it. Even if I wanted to, which I don’t. Can anyone suggest other songs or c.d.'s like that? Heartbreakingly mellow Irish music with violins, whistles and/or flutes. May or may not contain pipes. Not too crazy about them- yet- but they weren’t enough to ruin Tripswitch, either. Instrumental only, please. (Don’t want much, do I? )
I would thoroughly appreciate the ideas of those who have been listening to Irish Folk music much longer than I~
I have always really liked both of Trian’s albums. (Trian I and Trian II).
Irish Music in America: East Coast is also a pretty amazing album (basically recorded by a dozen different artists in the 1970s in solos and small groups).
Thanks! I DEFINITELY liked most of the Donal Lunny stuff (what I’ve heard of it so far- especially the theme from This Is My Father and Callain- even though I have no idea what he is saying- and I said instrumental only- see, even I don’t know what I’m after).
But I can’t find any samples of Trian’s music to listen to anywhere on the internet. Same with The Irish Tradition. You had to pick difficult bands, didn’t you? Just kidding.
I think I might go to the music store today just to “see what I can see”.
If tripswitch is your preference, you’re probably not going to like Trian, or any other traditional irish music. You’d be better off finding some flook or the like, really.
To the OP, definitely get a-hold of some good traditional irish music from the Kingdom of Kerry. Denis Murphy, Julia Clifford, Paddy Cronin… all great musicians! If you want some nice flute stuff to learn from, get your hands on Julia Clifford and Billy Clifford - Ceol as Sliabh Luachra.
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