Best of Dolores Keane

Dolores Keane | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 17, 1998)
• Original Release Date: November 13, 1997
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Celtic Corner
• ASIN: B000004BTP
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #199,195 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Caledonia

2. Lion in a Cage

3. My Love Is in America

4. Never Be the Sun

5. Galway Bay

6. The Island

7. Teddy O'Neill

8. Let It Be

9. Far Away in Australia

10. Telling Me Lies

11. Have I Told You Lately

12. A Place in Your Heart

13. Lili Marlene

Editorial Reviews

16 classic tracks from one of Ireland's best loved female vocalists, Dolores Keane --This text refers to an alternate Audio CD edition.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

20 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I'm keen on keane!, November 19, 2002

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FRANKIE GRIFFIN (Cork City,Ireland) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Best of Dolores Keane (Audio CD)

Where can one start to tell the story of the great Dolores Keane?
This Best Of Dolores Keane collection is long overdue.Dolores inherited her singing from her famous Sean Nos (old gaelic singers)Aunts, Rita and Sarah.Based in Galway in the West of Ireland.Dolores possibly came to prominence while doing lead singing with Irish Trad specialists De Dannan.Her rendition of Galway Bay is unbelievable here,also Far Away In Australia,Never Be The Sun,and Mick Hanleys My Love Is In America,all exellent.Some of the older tunes like Lili Marlene are nice too,and Let It Be by the Beatles is fantastic.All in this as I say was long overdue.I personally consider Dolores as the greatest Female Irish Vocalist of them all,yet commercially she hasn't been marketed very well.When one considers that Emmylou Harris is her greatest fan,and also Nathalie Merchant(ex 10,000 Maniacs)has said in the past that Dolores has been a big influence on her,well then what are you waiting for?Just go and purchase the hauntingly beauitiful voice of the legend Dolores Keane.Guranteed not to dissappoint.

22 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Best of Dolores Keane, March 17, 2000

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cynthia gregg (East Tennessee) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Best of Dolores Keane (Audio CD)

I was not familiar with Ms. Keane until I heard her in duet with John Prine on In Spite of Ourselves CD, and was totally intrigued with her voice. Now, after listening to the "best" of Delores (which is a modest description of the tunes on this CD)....I am totally enthralled with her music. I have played the CD over & over and find it more enchanting each play. I can't believe I have, at the age of 50, just discovered the delights of celtic music. It is a most pleasing listen.

25 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Give Yourself A Christmas Present -- Now!, December 15, 2000

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James Carragher (New York) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Best of Dolores Keane (Audio CD)

I listen to a lot of music. I listen to a fair amount of Irish music, mostly haphazardly. Probably my favorite recorded sounds are memorable female voices (no, not Streisand among them, good Gawd!), a random sample might include early Supremes, Emmylou Harris, Renee Fleming, Etta James, Kate and Anna McGarrigle, Sleater Kinney, very early Grace Slick and, before her, the first female singer with Jefferson Airplane, Signe Toly Anderson. Given all that, how the hell did I come this far in life without encountering Dolores Keane? It's inexplicable, but all that matters in the end is to have finally stumbled on her phenomenal singing. You should too, post-haste. My first hearing was in John Prine's duets CD on A Town This Size. Then, almost immediately thereafter, I found When Irish Girls Grow Up, the best thing on Tom Russell's uneven CD, The Man From God Knows Where. On Best Of the voice is younger, with some of the songs probably more than a decade old. I find its full-throated huskiness even more attractive now, but this CD is a spectacular introduction to her work. Lion in a Cage is a vibrant Afro-beat tribute to Nelson Mandela. Most of the other songs are ballads of what we Irish do best -- longing for places and people or both that are far distant in time and space. My Love is in America, Galway Bay, Teddy O'Neill, and Far Away in Australia are the best examples. She includes three covers -- Let It Be, Van the Man's Have I Told You Lately, and Linda Thompson's Telling Me Lies. For my taste, only the latter matches up to the other tracks here. Similarly, The Island -- contrasting the horror of conflict with the personal peace of love -- is a concept which just doesn't quite come off as a song. Those, however, are quibbles too inconsequential to be even minor. Do yourself a favor and get your hands on this CD now. It will be weeks before it comes out of your player. As for me, I'll be sampling all her other work. Sometimes the later discoveries in life are the best of all.