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Planxty
Planxty
Shanachie
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Raggle Taggle Gypsy - Tabhair Dom Do Lamh- Arthur McBride
- Planxty Irwin
- Sweet Thames Flow Softly
- Junior Crehan's Favourite - Corney Is Coming
- The West Coast Of Claire
- The Jolly Beggar
- Only Our Rivers
- Si Bheag, Si Mhor
- Follow Me Up To Carlow
- Si Bheag, Si Mhor
- The Blacksmith
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Planxty - start of the Irish folk music revival
I first heard Planxty when they performed in Edinburgh in 1975 as the warm-up act for Steeleye Span. Their music sparked my love of Irish folk music just as it did for so many others.
For the leader of the band, Christie Moore, who went on to become the leading icon of the Irish music revival, Planxty was the springboard to fame.
Although this was just their first album the tracks could have been assembled years later as a "Best of..."
This is the album for anybody who wants just one Planxty album in their collection.
As good as it gets, EVER!
Its hard to add any more superlatives to the other reviews of this album, but it must be done. This is one of the greatest albums of any musical style that I've heard. It was the third album of Irish music that I bought and after it I was hooked for good. Every track is a highlight, don't think about it buy it, you'll never regret it.
The best (to my ears)
As you can see from the reviews here, there cannot be enough praise for this masterpiece of Celtic culture. This album is an amazingly passionate and detailed journey akin to a superb novel. There are great Irish albums - and then there are a few magical one's such as Planxty's s/t.
If I had to choose one Irish album to take to the obligatory desert island, this one is it without hesitation. Please don't miss _The Well Below the Valley_ and _Cold Blow and the Rainy Night_ as well, as they are similarly excellent, yet just a wee notch below this amazing debut, but quite honestly that is splitting hairs...
The ballad "Only Our Rivers" will just tear at your heartstrings, and the opener "Raggle Taggle Gypsy" will simply amaze you.
An artistic masterpiece of the highest order.
Not much left to be said .. but!
I thought I had heard about the best of them when it come to Irish / Celtic / Folk / Traditional music. Not so, as I had never heard Planxty. A cousin of mine introduced me to them by loaning me his album .. Planxty-Planxty. Right away I was amazed and hooked. My favorite Planxty - Planxty song is "Follow Me Up To Carlow." Although all of them are very good. As a matter of fact, I think all of the albums / CDs by this group are excellent. I know because I am a very happy owner of them all. :) I would be hard pressed to pick a favorite, but I think it would be Planxty, After The Break and Well below The Valley. In that order. You can't go wrong with any of them.
It all started when they got together and did the album - Christy Moore / Prosperous. Christy Moore & Donal Lunny Played Guitars. Lunny also played Bouzouki, bottle neck bouzouki. Liam Og O'Flynn plays Uilleann pipes and Whistle. Andy Irving plays Mandolin and Mouth organ. Olive Collins .. Fiddle. Dave Bland Plays Concertina. Kevin Conneff plays bodhran on one song as he arrived late into the recording session, otherwise, he would have been on them all.
Hope this helps ..
Sublime Folk
There was a time in the 70s when British and Celtic folk music conveyed the passion that seemed to have evaporated the American scene. Steeleye Span,Five Hand Reel, The Chieftans,Pierre Bensusan, Alan Stivell, Fairport, Bert Jansch, and Richard & Linda Thompson. Plantxy's first solo effort is right up there with any of the aforementioned and remains one of my most cherished possessions. The exhuberant playing is uniformly transporting, and though Andy Irvine shares the vocals, it's Moore who carries me furtherest, and whose solo career I subsequently followed.(I can't understand why his self-titled album isn't on CD, while the less impressive'Prosperous' merits reissue)) Not a blotch on this Irish landscape though.