After The Break
- TARA 3001
Planxty
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| (1) | The Good Ship Kangaroo | ||
| (2) | East At Glendart / Brian O' Lynn / Pay The Reckoning (double jigs) | ||
| (3) | You Rambling Boys Of Pleasure | ||
| (4) | The Blackberry Blossom / Lucky In Love / The Dairy maid (reels) | ||
| (5) | The Rambling Siuler | ||
| (6) | The Lady On The Island / The Gatehouse Maid / The Virginia / Callaghan's (reels) | ||
| (7) | The Pursuit Of Farmer Michael Hayes | ||
| (8) | Lord McDonald / The Chattering Magpie | ||
| (9) | The Bonny Light Horseman | ||
| (10) | Smeceno Horo |
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MUSICIANS
Christy Moore - Vocals, guitar, harmonium & bodhran.
Donal Lunny - blarge & guitar.
Andy Irvine - vocals, mandolin, mandola, hurdy gurdy & bouzouki.
Liam O'Flynn - uilleann pipes & whistle.
Matt Molloy - flute & whistle.
Produced by Donal Lunny.
Recorded and Mixed in Ireland at Windmill Lane Studios.
Engineered by Brian Masterson.
Track Notes
The Good Ship Kangaroo was learned
from the singing of the late Mrs. Elizabeth Cronin of Macroom, Co. Cork.
In the penultimate verse, 'hottentot' probably means opium.
You Rambling Boys of Pleasure was learned from the singing of Len
Graham and the late Joe Holmes from Co. Antrim, and also from Ian Stevenson
of Derry, to whom many thanks . This is the song that was half remembered
by W.B Yeats and rewritten by him as ' Down by the Sally Gardens'.
The Rambling Sailor was collected in the North of Ireland by Sam
Henry and is obviously Scottish in origin. Once again a fatal fascination
for beggars brings ultimate reward to the farmer's daughter (how did they
do it?). An unlikely tale, this, but we like the colonel - come- beggar's
cunning in the third verse where he feigns interest in the serving girl,
presumably to convince that he wasn't going to try and get off with his
daughter.
The Pursuit of Farmer Michael Hayes was learned from several sources;
Christy heard versions of it sung by John Lyons, Tom Lenihan, and an unborn
singer on Donnacha O' Dulaing's 'Highways and Byways'. He received written
versions from Mike Flynn and Seamus MacMathuna and there's another in
Zimmerman's Songs of Irish Rebellion (figgis, Dublin). The air of that
song were not to our taste but we were glad that the air fitted Michael
Hayes so well.
Matt and Liam have been playing for ten or fifteen years , and of the
tunes are from the mainstream of their repertoire. The version played
here of the well - known jig Brian O' Lynn was learned from the
fiddle playing of Bobby Casey. Two of the reels, The Lady on the Island
and The Gatehouse Maid, were popularised by the great Sligo
fiddlers of the forties, Michael Coleman and Paddy Kiloran. Callaghan's
is a reel that comes from the Kerry fiddle tradition and was much played
by the late Denis Murphy. The Virginia and Lucky in Love (an
unusual version ) were learned from the playing of the late Willie Clancy,
whom Matt and Liam hold in very high regard. Both knew him personally
and played with him, and much of Matt's flute style derives from piping
techniques. The Virginia is also found in Pat Mitchell's The Dance
of Willie Clancy.
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