… Michael McGoldrick’s take on Ridee on his Fused recording.
Simple, smooth, jazzy, accessible. One of those that get stuck in your brain … and on the car CD player.
What’s on your player these days and why?
It’s 110 degrees outside, so I’m thinking low and slow (mostly, anyway). Besides, this is all just crazy-gorgeous music:
“Aoibhinn Cronan” by Mick O’Brien and Caoimhin O’Raighaillaigh;
“Triur Aris” with Peadar O’Riada, Martin Hayes, and Caoimhin O’Raighaillaigh;
“Family Album” by The McCarthy Family
I’ve also been reuniting with the Mulcahys’ first CD (“The Mulcahy Family”) and Ronan Browne & Peadar O’Loughlin’s “South West Wind.”
Just those. And this lamp. And this ashtray. That’s all I need. 
Calum Stewart & Heikki Bourgault, and Jed Wentz’s complete sonatas of Blavet (3 CD set).
Mainly because it happens to be in my car, I have been listening a lot to “On Common Ground” by Kevin Crawford and Cillian Vallely. Great playing and great choice of tunes. Also in the car rotation is “Er Pasker” by J-M Veillon, which is amazing because, well, J-M Veillon is on it.
Enda Seery’s The Winding Clock.
only because i’m headed to Boxwood in a couple weeks, this morning I pulled out Chris Norman’s Man With The Wooden Flute.
Always nimble listening.
Catherine McEvoy’s The Home Ruler and Matt Molloy’s The Heathery Breeze. And Kathryn TIckell’s Debatable Lands, which is making me wish I still had a copy of Alistair Anderson’s Steel Skies.
Definitely agree that is a wonderful CD.
The two CDs I keep listening to these days are At First Light with McGoldrick and Turlach Boylan’s Lift. I am liberally stealing tunes from both.
Eric
Noreen O’Sullivan - “The Quiet House”, Raw Bar Collective, and “The Deadly Buzz”, Mick and Caoimhin.
Sylvain Barou : “Alborada”
“The Open Road” - by Steph Geremia
Nothing like the car CD to change a life.
I listen to the soundtrack to Jonathan Livingston Seagull at work a lot. I played this music on piano as a child. It’s comfort music to me.
Awww, I love that Raw Bar Collective CD. Thanks for the reminder! When it cools off enough so I can jump around to it without succumbing to heatstroke I’ll definitely get that one back out. I need to listen to “Lift” since I just got it but Turlach said it was music to fix broken farm implements by and fortunately/unfortunately, nothing’s broken in the last couple weeks.
Seconded. This is an astoundingly beautiful album.
true dat.
perfect for long drives.
The last few days it been almost exclusively the album Early wood by Calum Stewart.
It’s just so beautiful.
Lunasa Otherworld
Lovely
Irish Flute Solos and Band Music from Kerry and Tipperary by Billy Clifford and An Irish Jubilee by Cathal McConnell and Robin Morton. Good stuff! And not directly flute-related would be Clare Concertinas with Bernard O’Sullivan and Tommy McMahon, The Return From Fingal by the maestro himself, Seamus Ennis and In Knocknagree with Tony McMahon and Noel Hill.