This is a great record. I may be biased, it's one of the first trad records I owned, but I love it. Planxty always seemed to me to be perfectly trad, but completely off step with "normal" trad. Most trad records are either one or two melody players and a guitar, or another next Bothy Band. Planxty was somewhere in between there, in territory that nobody seems to have covered since. Great stuff.
-jon
(I hope this is in the relevent section, apologies if not!)
I have just been listening to my battered vinyl copy of Planxty "cold blow...." and happened to notice that the actual record label is titled "cold BELOW and the rainy night"! Does anyone know if this was intentional?
Also the record sleeve lists "The frost is all over" but no mention of it on the record label.
Has anybody else noticed it or have i got a weird rarity?
My vinyl cipy of after the break has the sets of reels mixed up on the sleeve. I'm thinking that that's what got me into not being bothered about the names of tunes
Wasn't there loads of prolems with their managment
and how things were being produced (tunes names mixed up)
Wasn't that part of the reason they split up - although I believe there were some personal differences as well.
They didn't get much out of it either (in the way of money).
Wasn't Phil Coulter involved in it as well not in a good way (surprise!). They he sell their rights or something ?
Anyway, I was delighted to see them play again, and hopfully
getting paid this time.
The song indexed as B Neas's Green Blade is actually "Baneasa's Green Glade", one of Andy Irvine's compositions: Baneasa's a place in Romania, where Irvine stayed in early days (a wonder Ceaucescu didn't lock him up..!)
I think of this one as "the blue album" - obviously because that's the dominant colour on the cover, also because of the dark, brooding, held-back nature of some of the arrangements, culminating in the slow song "The Green Fields Of Canada", which absolutely dominates the album.
Cold Blow and the Rainy Night
This is a great record. I may be biased, it's one of the first trad records I owned, but I love it. Planxty always seemed to me to be perfectly trad, but completely off step with "normal" trad. Most trad records are either one or two melody players and a guitar, or another next Bothy Band. Planxty was somewhere in between there, in territory that nobody seems to have covered since. Great stuff.
-jon
# Posted on November 3rd 2001 by Jon Kiparsky
Cold "below" and the rainy night..
(I hope this is in the relevent section, apologies if not!)
I have just been listening to my battered vinyl copy of Planxty "cold blow...." and happened to notice that the actual record label is titled "cold BELOW and the rainy night"! Does anyone know if this was intentional?
Also the record sleeve lists "The frost is all over" but no mention of it on the record label.
Has anybody else noticed it or have i got a weird rarity?
# Posted on June 2nd 2005 by flanum
Re: Cold "below" and the rainy night..
My vinyl cipy of after the break has the sets of reels mixed up on the sleeve. I'm thinking that that's what got me into not being bothered about the names of tunes
# Posted on June 2nd 2005 by ...
Re: Cold "below" and the rainy night..
and there was me thinkin i was sittin on a fortune.
# Posted on June 2nd 2005 by flanum
Wasn't there loads of prolems with their managment
and how things were being produced (tunes names mixed up)
Wasn't that part of the reason they split up - although I believe there were some personal differences as well.
They didn't get much out of it either (in the way of money).
Wasn't Phil Coulter involved in it as well not in a good way (surprise!). They he sell their rights or something ?
Anyway, I was delighted to see them play again, and hopfully
getting paid this time.
# Posted on June 3rd 2005 by BegF
The song indexed as B Neas's Green Blade is actually "Baneasa's Green Glade", one of Andy Irvine's compositions: Baneasa's a place in Romania, where Irvine stayed in early days (a wonder Ceaucescu didn't lock him up..!)
I think of this one as "the blue album" - obviously because that's the dominant colour on the cover, also because of the dark, brooding, held-back nature of some of the arrangements, culminating in the slow song "The Green Fields Of Canada", which absolutely dominates the album.
# Posted on July 24th 2006 by nicholas
Pat Reilly - Andy Irvine 1976 (You Tube)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiysyMvHX3Q&feature=related
# Posted on June 26th 2010 by eames59
their 3rd LP, 1974. is that right?
# Posted on July 21st 2010 by birlibirdie
Correct....
1974 is the date on my LP record.
# Posted on July 21st 2010 by Kenny