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VT132CD Track List
Donegal & Back! - 'Songs, ballads & whistle tunes'
Packie Manus Byrne was born in 1917 on a small isolated farm in rural Donegal. He learned songs from his family and relatives as well as from other local singers. In those days It was not unusual to have a soot-blackened fiddle hanging over the hearth in the kitchen, but Packie took to the tin whistle: "I preferred something I could carry in my inside pocket!"
In 1965 he visited his first English folk festival, and the newly emerging folk revival took him to its heart. This album represents some of Packie’s finest work, mainly taken from his Veteran cassette ‘From Donegal and Back!’ plus the addition of three tracks from his seminal Topic Records album ‘Songs of a Donegal Man’, and three tracks which have never previously been released.
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CDCRO008 Track List
The Coast of Malabar
This album is a collection of the sea songs I love best and represents an ongoing body of work drawn from newly composed ballads to fresh arrangements of traditional ones".
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CDCRO007 Track List
Uncorked!
A mighty Irish singer who accompanies himself on guitar or bouzouki. This is a highly recommended live album.
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Track ListMy Love is a Tall Ship
A mighty Irish singer who accompanies himself on guitar or bouzouki. This is a highly recommended live album.
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VT137CD Track List
The Girls Along the Road
‘Traditional songs ballads and whistle tunes from Co. Antrim’
Sean Corcoran (of Cran) writes - Getting onto a train between Belfast and Dublin I heard the strains of the reel 'Devanney's Goat' tin-whistling down the corridor and I knew immediately who it was. I found John Kennedy entertaining a carriage-load of travellers to while away the journey - "My God, Kennedy! Do you ever cease?"
John Kennedy is one of the great voices of Irish traditional song and also a renowned musician, teacher, songmaker and tunesmith. This album is a selection from John's branbag of songs along with some fascinating pieces from his unique repertoire of old traditional fifing tunes.
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CCF13CD Track List
The Liffey Banks
Tommy Potts, heir to over a century of family music, was one of the most innovative and inventive Irish fiddlers. He constantly re-interpreted his music, extending its horizons until the tunes were created anew. His lifelong fascination with melody and its structure continued until his death in 1988, and attracted serious academic study. However, its true worth is in its beauty of approach and execution and its appeal to the ear.
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Colin Reid burst upon the scene with his 1998 debut album of solo guitar music
and was acclaimed as the new guitar hero. He is, however, much more than an
exceptional guitarist - he is an exceptional musician and, as this new album
proves, an exceptional composer.
The best description of TILT comes from Colin Harper's review
on MOJO - "this set triumphs in its technicolor daring, where the guitar is an
engine beneath the arrangements that drives forward the notion of quirky yet
often moving compositions for small group and strings, from precisely where the
Penguin Cafe Orchestra left off - an exceptional collection" The album works
wonderfully as a kind of radio programme, moving from solo guitar to funky
string quartet with guitar and on to vocals by Eddi Reader and Boo Hewerdine.
TSCD541 Track List
Swim
Colin Reid guitar, Liam Bradley kit, Brian Connor piano,
Wurlitzer, Hammond organ, Becky Joslin cello, Neil Martin cello, Buffy North
violin, Alan Shields double bass
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TSCD530 Track List
Tilt
Colin Reid guitar, Maire Breatnach viola, violin, Brian Connor piano, John
Fitzpatrick violin, Boo Hewerdine vocals, guitar, Andrew Lavery kit
Gino Lupari bodhran, shaker, Neil Martin cello, Oleg Ponomarev violin, Eddi
Reader vocals, Alan Shields double bass
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VT149CD Track List
My Colleen by the Shore
The Irish music scene in Liverpool has long been a vibrant one and out of it has grown one of the finest traditional singers in the country. Bruce Scott, a one time demolition worker who travelled Ireland in the 1960s busking and learning songs, has brought together a great and unusual collection of traditional songs sung in a way that reflects his lifetime of singing. As if that wasn’t enough, he has in recent years started writing his own songs and four of them feature on this CD, including the title track ‘My Colleen by the Shore’ which won Bruce the ‘All Ireland Newly Composed Ballads’ competition in 2004.
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