Has Paddy Molloney a whistle album?

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I was watching the Chieftains “Water from the Well” (?) documentary the other day, and it dawned on me again, Paddy Molloney is a masterful whistle player!

Since my favourite Beattle is Matt, i’m not very knowledgeable about Paddy M. Does anybody here know if he has recorded a whistle album?

thanks,

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Paddy Moloney/Sean Potts “Tin Whistles”

http://www.claddaghrecords.com/www/product.asp?pID=8&cID=1

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Wonderful, thanks!

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And it is well worth getting. Dale has a review somewhere on the main site, which is why I bought my copy. Two guys on Generation whistles, a few tracks have a bodhran, and that’s all. Absolutely lovely. Quite a nice treatment for the overload of recordings that have been digitally tweaked. I was not disappointed at all and I don’t think you’d be, either.

-Patrick

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I believe some die-hard traditionalists regard this album as over-arranged. I love it. There’s room for diversity in Irish trad and there had better be room for this music if the tradition is going somewhere.

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Parts of it are definitely over-arranged – most notably, their version of Julia Delany, which is not even remotely traditional.

But it’s still one of the all-time great whistle recordings. Maybe the best of them.

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I was speaking to Paddy last time they were playing in the area and he told me his wife was on his case to do a solo solo album since all of the other chieftains have solo albums. So he said a completely solo album of him was in the works. I’m excited about that but I hope it’s trad and not filled with Sinead O Conner, Sting and the Boston Pops Orchestra! hehe

I wasn’t a big fan of the Maloney/Potts album for the record…

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I liked it, but at times it does feel as if they were playing musical chicken :laughing: or maybe using the amazing slow-downer as the amazing speed-upper :smiling_imp:

Lots of demonically skilled playing, but it feels as if they’re showing off their undoubted skill rather than the music itself. Still good listening, but I like to contrast it with Micho Russell’s “Ireland’s Whistling Ambassador” CD - much more straightforward playing, with the skill supporting the music rather than taking the forefront.