Heard the best bit of playing in a long while on a CD today. It was Tom Dorley from Danu on the band’s new CD. Playing in duet with fiddle on a march from John Doherty’s playing. Great boyancy in it and loads of different tones. The album is top of that genre, which generally isn’t really the sort of thing I get exited about, but I was very glad to hear that bit of playing. The tone and breath control reminded me of Dessie Wilkinson. Lovely shimmery vibrato and punctuation, and technically controlled without being sterile.
i saw Danú not long ago and Tom Doorley sounded great to me, though certainly i’ll never have Harry’s erudition in these matters. i haven’t heard anything from them since the “Up in the Air” cd, but i’ll put the new one on my list, thank you Mr Bradley for the tip.
i managed to get the last copy of Muireann’s “Morning Star” from Dingle record shop, and Mazz dropped in a little note saying to expect a new cd from Muireann in “about 6 weeks”.
