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Music : Planxty
by: Planxty
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Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0016351790927 Label: Shanachie Manufacturer: Shanachie Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Shanachie Release Date: April 01, 1994 Sales Rank: 45198 Studio: Shanachie |
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Disc 1:
- Raggle Taggle Gypsy Tabhair Dom Do Lamh
- Arthur Mcbride
- Plaxty Irwin
- Sweet Thames Flow Softly
- Junior Crehan's Favourite Corney Is Coming
- West Coast Of Clare
- Jolly Beggar Reel
- Only Our Rivers
- Si Bheag Si Mhor (Follow Me Up To Carlow)
- Merrily Kissed The Quaker
- Blacksmith
- The Well Below the Valley
- Cold Blow and the Rainy Night
- The Woman I Loved So Well
- Live 2004
- Words and Music
- see more
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- Probably the Greatest Folk Album in the World - Ever !Marries folk and trad, instrumentals and songs, originals and timeless classics.If you're interested in folk, or Irish music, or acoustic music you can't not have this album !
Planxty had 2 outstanding singers in Christy Moore (still enormously popular in his own right) and the hugely influential Andy Irvine (exceptional composer, and collector of folk songs from all over the world). The group featured the superb Liam O'Flynn on uileann pipes. Not only has O'Flynn influenced every Irish ... Read More
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- Timeless ClassicI first heard this album at a very young age when I found a cassette copy in my father's collection. For some reason I was aware of Christy Moore being in the band, though I had no idea what lay in store! From the Raggle Taggle Gypsy through to the Blacksmith via The West Coast of Clare, this album deserves the true title of absolute classic, and amazingly sounds so fresh today. This album led to my taking up the bouzouki, and I would be hard pressed to find one that has had such an influense on me.
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- This is the one!For anyone hoping for an introduction to Irish music, this CD is the one to have. I have 5000+ CDs in my collection and across all genre's, this is my favourite. Nowhere else will you find such a mix of unbridled enegy, aching ballads & instrumental virtuosity. This was the Planxty's first and finest album and all subsequent efforts, though each having three or four great tracks, never captured the atmosphere of the first. Where will you find a finer ballad than the West Coast of Clare, heavier ... Read More
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