I managed to borrow an old cassette recording of this album, and took a copy. It's Martin Hayes playing together with his dad, P.J Hayes. I believe that it was recorded in 1990, and only ever issued on cassette.
The tunes are played at a fair pace, somewhat different than Martin's usual slower "lonesome" style, and the track noted as "Jim Sullivan" is actually a song ( but not sung by either P.J. or Martin!)
The tunes fairly drive along, with the fiddles perfectly in unison, even to the ornamentation. In my humble opinion, one of the best fiddle albums that i've heard.
I managed to borrow an old cassette recording of this album, and took a copy. It's Martin Hayes playing together with his dad, P.J Hayes. I believe that it was recorded in 1990, and only ever issued on cassette.
The tunes are played at a fair pace, somewhat different than Martin's usual slower "lonesome" style, and the track noted as "Jim Sullivan" is actually a song ( but not sung by either P.J. or Martin!)
The tunes fairly drive along, with the fiddles perfectly in unison, even to the ornamentation. In my humble opinion, one of the best fiddle albums that i've heard.
# Posted on February 22nd 2007 by riverrunner
The song "Jim Sullivan" was performed by Mark Gregory.
# Posted on February 22nd 2007 by riverrunner
That should read "P.J. Hayes playing together with his son, Martin."
Only joking. They also appear on Mary MacNamara's first recording: http://www.claddaghrecords.com/www/product.asp?pID=42&cID=18
# Posted on February 23rd 2007 by slainte
Damn
How can someone get a copy of it? martin is my favorite fiddle player.
# Posted on February 25th 2008 by ferfcksake