Best of Bothy Band

The Bothy Band | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 5, 1993)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Green Linnet
• ASIN: B000005CRR
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #352,871 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Reels: The Salamanca/The Bansee/The Sailor's Bonnet

2. Pretty Peg/Craig's Pipes [Song & Reel]

3. The Air, Set Dance and Reel: The Blackbird

4. The Reel: The Maids of Mitchelstown

5. Casadh an Tsúgáin

6. Reels: Music in Glen/The Humours of Scariff/The Otter's Holt

7. Fionnghuala

8. Old Hag You Have Killed Me [Jig]

9. Do You Love an Apple?

10. Rip the Calico: Leitrim Fancy/Round the World for Sport/Rip the Calico/

11. The Death of Queen Jane

12. The Green Groves of Erin/The Flowers of Red Hill [Reels]

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

18 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A good introduction, but not what *I* consider their best, May 21, 1998

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P. Lozar "plozar" (Santa Fe, NM USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Best of Bothy Band (Audio CD)

If you want to buy one Bothy Band album, this isn't a bad choice. But everything on it is on their other four albums, and if you're serious about Irish music you'll buy those instead rather than bothering with this one. Also, it doesn't include one of MY personal favorite tunes, "The Strayaway Child" from "Out of the Wind, Into the Sun" ...

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Celtic Music At Its Best, December 2, 2000

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Steve Vrana (Aurora, NE) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Best of Bothy Band (Audio CD)

Beginning in the early Eighties I made a conscious effort to broaden my musical horizons beyond the narrow scope of the American pop music I grew up on in the Sixties. During that time I went through a brief but intense period where I tried to absorb as much Celtic music as I could find. Among the bands that I discovered were Silly Wizard, Planxty, the Battlefield Band and--of course--the Chieftains. But the band that made the most intense impression on me was the Bothy Band.

Each band member is a gifted musician--I'm especially fond of Paddy Keenan's playing of the uilleann pipes--but even more astounding was the voice of Triona Ni Dhomhnaill on such songs as "Do You Love an Apple." Other highlights include the mouth music number "Fionnghuala," and the lovely ballad "The Death of Queen Jane."

While I would agree with the earlier reviewers that avid fans of this highly influential band should also seek out their complete studio albums--especially 1975: The First Album and Old Hag You Have Killed Me (their first and second album respectively)--they aren't always easy to find. So if you have to limit yourself to just one of their albums, The Best of the Bothy Band (first released on vinyl in 1980), is the album to have. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Celtic music the way it's supposed to be., October 2, 2001

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This review is from: Best of Bothy Band (Audio CD)

This album is the perfect antidote to those endlessly boring "Celtic moods" albums which have flooded the market recently.
There are several medleys of fast-moving reels here, any one of which will get your blood flowing. There are some ballads too, to be sure, but they are moving rather than somnambulistic.
This is what Celtic music should be and usually was until someone got it into their head that it should be a cure for insomnia.
The only sad note here is that the group broke up some time back.
All in all, this is one of the most enjoyable collections of Irish music I've heard in a while.