Hi there!
I can’t get enough of low whistle tunes, I’ve started to buy cds even if there’s only one low whistle tune on it…
I’m sure there are superb lowwhistle cds out there, please, let me know if you know any at all, I’m sure Loren knows, hope he’ll read this mail. Help me out, I’m in dire straits here… 
cheers, Amar.
What would help is if you made a list of the CD’s you have. I can name a few but you may already have them. I’ll recomend one to stay away from though, James McNally Everybreath. I use my copy to set my Budweiser on.
Amar,
Laurence Nugent has two wonderful CDs with Low whistle tracks, and flute tracks, in the mix. Windy Gap and Two for Two are both top of my list.
Brian
Also, Michael McGoldrick on Morning Rory has several good low F whistle tracks.
My two favorite low whistle players are Eoin Duignan and Davy Spillane. You can get Duignan’s CDs at http://www.duigo.com and Spillane’s from http://www.amazon.com. Of the two I like Duignan the best, but both guys are incredible.
Paddy Keenan’s “The Long grazing Acre” comes to mind. There are some sound bites at Shanna Quay.
I’m not sure whether you’ll get these CD where you are, but I know they have played regularly in Europe. The band was ‘The Crack’ but they are now known as ‘Thee Na Shee’. Anyway, the low whistler (and piper and harpist and cittern player) is my friend Rob Launder and he plays beautifully. They are a little bit like Moving Hearts (i.e. Rock band with celtic leanings). They have a couple of CDs out and have a website, which I can’t remember the address of. I should image a search for ‘Thee Na Shee’ shouldn’t throw up too many results.
Hi Phil,
another Londoner at last!!
I was beginning to feel lonely here, the only C&F reader in the heart of the greatest capital city in the world (except maybe Ouagadougou and Yaoundé).
Now we can make up cockney rhyming slang for our American friends and pretend we all speak like that over here!
What’s the rhyming slang for Chiff & Fipple?
Cat and Fiddle?
Wet your whistle?
Down the middle?
Officer Dibble?
Blow and dribble?
“The Irish Low Whistle” by Joe McKenna. Also includes Mary Bergin, John Doyle, Antoinette
McKenna and Danu’s Donnchadh Gough. Joe is perhaps better known for his piping but he seems to manage OK on the whistle. On Shanachie.
Kevin Popejoy
JIMMYM
I like “Blow and Dribble”. Sounds like my playing.
i second joe mckenna’s “irish low whistle” he plays a variety of whistles in various keys,made by the likes of sindt,copeland,overton and o’riordan- i have an attack of whoa everytime i see the sleeve photo! i also recommend cormac breatnach’s “musical journey” on which he plays an overton f,and a cillian o’briain low d(which he rates highly in the sleeve notes)- hear it put to use on the very atmospheric rendition of “port na bpucai”. i also like brian hughes’ “whistlestop” though i dont really think this counts as i think the lowest whistle on it is a bflat, if memory serves me right.-still a great whistle album though!
Another vote for joe mckenna’s "irish low whistle.
just wanna push this thread up to the top again, in case other people might have a few other ideas, thanks!
Amar.
and thanks alot sofar for the recomendations.
[ This Message was edited by: amar on 2002-05-19 10:03 ]