Chieftains Collection: Very Best Of Claddagh Years 2

The Chieftains | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 24, 2000)
• Original Release Date: October 24, 2000
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Atlantic / WEA
• ASIN: B00004Z453
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #251,045 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Kerry Slides

2. The Hunter's Purse

3. Callaghan's /Byrne's Hornpipe [Hornpipes]

4. Round the House and Mind the Dresser

5. Brian Boru's March

6. An Mhaighdean Mhara

7. Ceol Bhriotánach

8. Drowsy Maggie

9. Away with Ye

10. Carolan's Concerto

11. Cherish the Ladies

12. Dónall Óg

13. Ril Mhór

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars No Hype -- Just the Finest "Best of " Chieftains Collection, August 2, 2002

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John Andrew Miller (New York, NY USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Chieftains Collection: Very Best Of Claddagh Years 2 (Audio CD)

There are several "best-of" Chieftains compilations, released on a handful of different labels, but this one is the best. This record, as well as the other Claddagh Chieftains releases, tends to get overlooked in the record store bins in favor of the the flashier Columbia and RCA discs. This is a shame, since the Chieftains did some of their purest, most exhilarating recording for Claddagh.

These recordings were made long before the so-called "Celtic Revival" of the Riverdance-era, for a traditional music label who respected the music too much to march a never-ending parade of celebrity singers through the Chieftains' studio or design New Agey covers for their albums. The bare- bones production on this disc does a far better job of capturing the Chieftains' energy and inventive arrangements than the later state-of-the-art recordings. This is most apparent on "Carolan's Concerto", a tune the Chieftains have recorded several times in their career with the likes of James Galway and the Irish National Orchestra, but never as well, and to such dramatic effect, as they did here -- playing by themselves, in a quiet studio without benefit of reverb or extra musicians, elevating Carolan's simple tune to a soaring masterpiece.

2 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The very best of the claddagh years (volume two), January 24, 2001

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[e-mail] (Atlanta, GA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Chieftains Collection: Very Best Of Claddagh Years 2 (Audio CD)

It was one of those days... I did not like to do anything. Anything period. Well, anything does not includ listening to music on net! I discovered The Chieftans by surfing around the net!!! It changed my mode like a flash. Wish I knew how to dance with it.