I remember when I bought this CD many years ago, I just kept playing it over and over. Sean McGuire's playing is exquisite and the whole album is just beautiful music, with an irresistible charm. This album remains one of my favourite albums of all time.
There is a beautiful poem on the back of the CD titled 'The Wishing Tree' by Seamus Heaney
The Wishing Tree
I thought of her as the wishing tree that died
And saw it lifted, root and branch to heaven,
Trailing a shower of all that had been driven
Need by need by need into its hale
Sap wood and bark, coin an pin and nail
Came streaming from it like a comet-tail
New-minted and dissolved. I had a vision
Of an airy branch head rising through damp cloud,
Of turned up faces where the tree had stood.
The Wishing Tree
I remember when I bought this CD many years ago, I just kept playing it over and over. Sean McGuire's playing is exquisite and the whole album is just beautiful music, with an irresistible charm. This album remains one of my favourite albums of all time.
# Posted on February 16th 2007 by JACKB
There is a beautiful poem on the back of the CD titled 'The Wishing Tree' by Seamus Heaney
The Wishing Tree
I thought of her as the wishing tree that died
And saw it lifted, root and branch to heaven,
Trailing a shower of all that had been driven
Need by need by need into its hale
Sap wood and bark, coin an pin and nail
Came streaming from it like a comet-tail
New-minted and dissolved. I had a vision
Of an airy branch head rising through damp cloud,
Of turned up faces where the tree had stood.
# Posted on February 16th 2007 by JACKB