This is a pretty new album. I picked it up yesterday and am liking it so far after 2 listens, and I am a Flute player. By that I mean this is not just for Guitar players. I was surprised no one posted it as we were just having a disscussion about it.
Please not that the liner notes and CD track listing have the tunes reversed on track 14 with Donogh Hennessy. I have reversed the titles so they link to the correct tunes.
It's about time someone put out a recording like this. I haven't heard it yet but I'll definetely buy it. I have the breton equivalent "Kerden" which has been out for a few years.
I would like to see this continung and hope to see a volume 2 out in the future with other deserving contributers!!
Having listened through only once, my first impression is more "interesting" than "good". Some good picking (from who? just guess...) some more leadfooted stuff, some overly twee, and a truly inexplicable bit of electric guitar tossery, easily skipped as it's the last track. The good picking is a crash course in timing and phrasing, which any player can profit from . The mediocre stuff is informative in its own way - how does a tune become mediocre? Here are some clues...
It's probably indicative that there is a rather high percentage of "original compostions" here. Although a tune occurs to me now and then, I'm becoming convinced that the composer should never play their own tunes, at least not until they've had a chance to go around loose for a little while and get the rough spots rubbed off.
Compilation put together by Donal Clancy
This is a pretty new album. I picked it up yesterday and am liking it so far after 2 listens, and I am a Flute player. By that I mean this is not just for Guitar players. I was surprised no one posted it as we were just having a disscussion about it.
Here are the players:
1. Arty McGlynn
2. Randal Bays
3. Donal Clancy
4. Donogh Hennessy
5. Dennis Cahill
6. Garry O'Briain
7. John Doyle
8. Seamie O'Dowd
9. Dáithí Sproule
10. Randal Bays
11. Arty McGlynn
12. John Doyle
13. Donal Clancy
14. Donogh Hennessy
15. Garry O'Briain
16. Seamie O'Dowd
# Posted on April 21st 2006 by Why Bother?
Track 14
Please not that the liner notes and CD track listing have the tunes reversed on track 14 with Donogh Hennessy. I have reversed the titles so they link to the correct tunes.
# Posted on April 23rd 2006 by Why Bother?
Masters of the irish guitar
It's about time someone put out a recording like this. I haven't heard it yet but I'll definetely buy it. I have the breton equivalent "Kerden" which has been out for a few years.
I would like to see this continung and hope to see a volume 2 out in the future with other deserving contributers!!
In anticipation
# Posted on April 25th 2006 by Shtrum
Excellent album.
There's also an scottish equivalent, "The clear stream", submitted here :
http://www.thesession.org/recordings/display/1358
# Posted on May 22nd 2006 by AntoineL
Having listened through only once, my first impression is more "interesting" than "good". Some good picking (from who? just guess...) some more leadfooted stuff, some overly twee, and a truly inexplicable bit of electric guitar tossery, easily skipped as it's the last track. The good picking is a crash course in timing and phrasing, which any player can profit from . The mediocre stuff is informative in its own way - how does a tune become mediocre? Here are some clues...
It's probably indicative that there is a rather high percentage of "original compostions" here. Although a tune occurs to me now and then, I'm becoming convinced that the composer should never play their own tunes, at least not until they've had a chance to go around loose for a little while and get the rough spots rubbed off.
# Posted on April 8th 2008 by Jon Kiparsky
What's the jig that Donogh Hennessy plays after the hornpipe "Home By The Fire"?
# Posted on July 27th 2008 by JosephofCK
How can this be Masters of the Irish Guitar without Steve Cooney..??? I mean for f**k's sake!!!!!!!!
# Posted on November 8th 2008 by divilthebit