This is brilliant stuff. Beautiful, rich-toned, crisp, spirited fiddle playing. Arty McGlynn backs John on the guitar, but he also picks a few tunes, and I haven't heard anything like it - warm, melodic, intricate - just lovely!
The piano accompaniment by Brian McGrath is pretty subtle. I'm not really a fan of piano all over everything, especially electric piano - but in spite of my initial misgivings, it does work, and it's not aggressive in the mix.
Get this CD, and if you see John, pester him to record an album with his brother James - that's a CD the world needs.
Yeh, That's All It Is
This is brilliant stuff. Beautiful, rich-toned, crisp, spirited fiddle playing. Arty McGlynn backs John on the guitar, but he also picks a few tunes, and I haven't heard anything like it - warm, melodic, intricate - just lovely!
The piano accompaniment by Brian McGrath is pretty subtle. I'm not really a fan of piano all over everything, especially electric piano - but in spite of my initial misgivings, it does work, and it's not aggressive in the mix.
Get this CD, and if you see John, pester him to record an album with his brother James - that's a CD the world needs.
# Posted on January 20th 2003 by Nell