Far From The Shamrock Shore

Mick Moloney

Submitted on November 11th 2003 by Max Becher.

1. Erin's Green Shore
   
2. The Green Fields Of America
   
3. Skibereen
   
4. You Lovers All
   
5. No Irish Need Apply
   
6. Paddy Works On The Railway
   
7. When The Breaker Starts Up Full Time
   
8. The Irish Volunteers
   
9. Pat Murphy Of The Irish Brigade
   
10. Muldoon The Solid Man
    
11. Erin's Lovely Lee
    
12. Clancy's Wooden Wedding
    
13. The Mulligan Guard
    
14. Maloney The Rolling Mill Man
    
15. The Kellys
    Boys Of Malin
    
16. Daisy Bell
    

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More recordings by Mick Moloney:

• Out Of Ireland
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• We Have Met Together
• With Eugene O'Donnell

OMG, this is awesome!

I bought this cd, included with Mick's book by the same name, at Augusta this week... I have not stopped listening to the cd! I do both historical reenacting and traditional singing, so this was a FANTASTIC find for me!

I LOVE his arrangements, and the book is phenominal (though, in the Civil War section, he left out the Irish troops from LOUISIANA! *Is in a Louisiana Civil War reenacting unit that was nearly all Irish immigrants... based in Cleveland, OH...*) I meant to ask him about that, but never got the chance.

It's definitely somthing I'd suggest for anyone who sings, or even folks who do singing accompaniment on any instrument.

His 3 (4?) part harmony of "Erin's Green Shore" will just send shivers right down your spine. I am definitely learning it and using it for the English singing competition at the All Ireland this year!

# Posted on July 31st 2004 by Oranaiche

Everyone needs to learn these songs!

Mick Moloney knows his stuff- not only how to sing and play with wonderful expression and enthusiasm, and not just how to find good musicians to back him up (Eileen Ivers, Marie Reilly, Bruce Molsky, John Doyle, etc.) but especially how to find wonderful Irish-American songs to record. Where does he find these gems??

These songs are uniformly energetic and powerful, and I wish everybody would learn some of these and play them more often! Several of them are good old nationalistic, anti-British anthems (the chilling "Skibereen," the jaunty "Irish Volunteers") while the rest are war songs, railroad songs, love songs, crazily humorous fast-lyricked songs- basically everything you would ever want from an album of traditional Irish-American music, except perhaps more instrumentals (the eternal cry of the instrumentalist). There are no duds on here- I have personal favorites, but they are all good.

I don't own the companion book, although I really wish I did.

# Posted on July 16th 2006 by wordnerd129