Drive the Cold Winter Away [Original recording, Import]

Horslips | Format: Vinyl

Product Details

• Vinyl
• Original Release Date: 1975
• Format: Original recording, Import
• Label: Horslips Records
• ASIN: B000RJX3ZS
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,380,846 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Drive The Cold Winter Away - Horslips. Original LP released in the UK in 1975, catalog #MOO9. Tracks are Rug Muire Do Dhia (Mary Bore a Son to God) / Sir Festus Burke/Carolan's Frolic / The Snow That Melts the Soonest / The Piper in the Meadow Straying / Drive the Cold Winter Away / Thompson's Cottage in the Grove / Ny Kirree Fo Naghtey (The Sheep 'Neath the Snow) / Crabs in the Skillet / Denis O'Connor / Do'n Oiche ud I Mbeithil (That Night in Bethlehem) / Lullaby / Snow and the Frost Are All over / Paddy Fahey's / When a Man's in Love

Customer Reviews

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An interesting departure into acoustic traditional songs., April 21, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Drive the Cold Winter Away (Audio CD)

In the early 70's Horslips was an Irish entry into the field of rock which blended traditional jigs and reels with strong electric instrumentation. Stylistically close to Fairport Convention, the group blended hot licks with great Irish jigs, reels, and set dances. This album was a departure in that it focused exclusively on the traditional elements of their Celtic heritage. The selections featured the vocals of Barry Devlin, coupled with the fiddle of Charles O'Conner, blended with acoustic contributions from the remaining three band members. It is a distinct change of pace from other Horslips fare, and a good album for those into both rock and traditional celtic fare. On whole, the album plays like a fine winter night in a small village pub -- just the thing to warm the bones.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Timeless Classic!, April 21, 2001

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bogubundus2 (Rochester, NY) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Drive the Cold Winter Away (Audio CD)

A timeless classic, "Drive the Cold Winter Away" is considered to be a Christmas album, but people who live in parts of the world other than Ireland probably won't recognize most of these songs as Christmas songs, and that's a good thing, because this album is too exceptional to be played only once a year at Christmas time (If you MUST call it a Christmas album, so be it, but it is the BEST Christmas album I have ever heard!). The captivating Celtic melodies, intricate interplay among a bewildering array of strictly traditional instruments and the stirring singing, sometimes in Gaelic, sometimes in English, will transport you back to 17th century rural, snow-covered Ireland on a starry winter's night. And these guys play with an energy, intensity, and passion which is unrivaled and is too often lacking in contemporary groups of the Irish-Celtic-Folk genre. So many other groups I've heard in this category play competently enough but too often sound like a hundred other groups performing the same kind of music and/or lack intensity and/or have an overly sterile, overly polished, overly rehearsed type of sound that sounds almost like it was programmed into a machine or the result of someone fiddling with knobs on a computer. Not so with Horslips - there is skillfull playing but at the same time a raw energy which sounds like real humans playing real instruments, and, on this album, all without the aid of the usual rock instruments (except for an electric bass line in one song). Simply put, this is one of the best-performed albums of its type and stands as a timeless classic which any fan of very traditional Irish-Celtic folk music should be embarrassed if he/she doesn't have this in his/her collection.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Chrismas Album, Superb Horslips album, August 25, 2004

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Oymaprat (Nowhere In Particular) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Drive the Cold Winter Away (Audio CD)

I'm going to assume that if you're reading this then you already know the horslips (if not try the tain or the book of invasions first)
This is very much for a fan of the early albums, especially happy to meet... and it's pointless getting it if you don't like that. If you like latter horslips and haven't tried earlier then work your way back is my advise. That roughly covers everything.
Hope I've been usefull to you, Toodle Pipskie (is that how you spell it?)