If you want to hear the Chieftains play traditional music with subtlety and imagination as opposed to guest stars and gimmickry, this is the album. One of the best recordings ever of trad music. I am still listening to it regularly 30 years after I first heard it. Michael Tubridy's solo track with Mercier's bodhran accompaniment is one of the best recordings of traditional Irish flute playing and is probably what subconsciously put me on the path to the flute even though when I began the whistle, I always thought I would be a piper.
Several tunes use the bones, though I'm not sure who's playing them. One online source says that Martin Fay, Seah Potts and Peadar Mercier all played bones. You can hear bones on:
Track 7, the reel Tie the Bonnet.
Track 8 Callaghan's Hornpipe
Track 13 Sweeney's Polka
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If you want to hear the Chieftains play traditional music with subtlety and imagination as opposed to guest stars and gimmickry, this is the album. One of the best recordings ever of trad music. I am still listening to it regularly 30 years after I first heard it. Michael Tubridy's solo track with Mercier's bodhran accompaniment is one of the best recordings of traditional Irish flute playing and is probably what subconsciously put me on the path to the flute even though when I began the whistle, I always thought I would be a piper.
# Posted on May 4th 2003 by LongNote
Maybe "unpack" track 6 ("The Foxhunt") into the separate pieces so they can be matched up with the individual tunes in the database:
1. Fiach an Mhadra Rua
2. The Foxhunter's Jig
3. The Foxhunter's Mazurka
4. The Foxhunter's Reel
# Posted on February 13th 2004 by turophile
The Fair-Haired Child
The Fair-Haired Child is the 1st tune on track 5, but it's not in the track list here.
# Posted on June 12th 2008 by Piping Crow
The Sea Maiden
Track 7 opens with The Sea Maiden (An Mhaighdean Mhara), but it's not listed here.
# Posted on July 24th 2009 by Fifthtry
Bones
Several tunes use the bones, though I'm not sure who's playing them. One online source says that Martin Fay, Seah Potts and Peadar Mercier all played bones. You can hear bones on:
Track 7, the reel Tie the Bonnet.
Track 8 Callaghan's Hornpipe
Track 13 Sweeney's Polka
# Posted on July 24th 2009 by Fifthtry