Gaelic Storm

Gaelic Storm | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (July 28, 1998)
• Original Release Date: July 28, 1998
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Higher Octave
• ASIN: B000009DEE
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (76 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #31,819 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #50 in Music > Indie Music > World Music > Europe
  • #67 in Music > World Music > Celtic > Fusion
  • #68 in Music > World Music > Celtic > New Age

Track Listings

1. Hills of Connemara

2. Bonnie Ship the Diamond/Tamlinn

3. The Farmer's Frolic

4. Johnny Jump up/Morrison's Jig

5. The Storm

6. Tell Me Ma

7. Rock Road to Dublin/Kid on the Mountain

8. Sight of Land

9. The Leaving of Liverpool

10. Sammy's Fancy

11. McCloud's Reel/Whup Jamboree

12. The Road to Liskeard

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

26 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Magnificent!!!, April 1, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: Gaelic Storm (Audio CD)

I'm a black American from a small town in Texas. That probably wouldn't qualify me to speak on what moves Gaelic Storm when they play music. I certainly am not qualified to speak on the reality of being Irish in this place and time. There is a magnificent display of beauty here. The solidness of the fiddle, strumming of the mandolin and guitar, and the smoothness of the uilliean pipes speak truely of an inspiration of a time in rural Ireland. This music is clearly breath-taking. Celtic music is a something unique amongst other folk music that makes my blood flow freely throughout my body. Thank you, Gaelic Storm. This is beautiful!

29 of 31 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Guinness for the Ears, July 31, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Gaelic Storm (Audio CD)

Gaelic Storm (not JUST the "party band" from the steerage-class dance sequence in TITANIC) has been rocking O' Brien's Pub in Santa Monica, California every weekend for years... While the CD's is not quite the same as hearing the band along with over a hundred people packed into a fairly small pub, singing along with wide-smiled Rocky Horror-esque enthusiasm, it's a great start, and it's about time these guys got a CD!!

While every track on the disc is great, the band really shines on the traditional (OK, let's face it... they're drinking songs... where's your pint?) Irish songs like "Johnny Jump Up", "The Hills of Connemara" and "Tell Me Ma" -- when Patrick Murphy and the two Steves (Wehmeyer & Twigger) add their voices and charisma to the I-can't-stop-my-foot-from-tapping music. Also impressive is Samantha Hunt on the violin, whose nimble fingers bring the "traditional" sound and fury to most of the tracks. W! hile the very nature of the band's music tends to absorb her melody lines into the Irish pub-jam feel of the instrumentals, listen again and you'll be amazed at her skill, and take her away and the band just wouldn't be the same.

Nothing compares, however, to seeing the band live. Sunday nights, O' Brien's on Main in Santa Monica, California. Eat light -- leave room for the Guinness.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A rating from someone who knows!, January 30, 2000

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This review is from: Gaelic Storm (Audio CD)

I am an Irish dancer, so I can very much relate tot his music. Irish music that is really entertaining and fun to listen to over and over is hard to come by, but Gaelic Storm pulls it off brilliantly! They are so in credibly talented and their music is so vibrant and easy to enjoy. They take typical Irish instruments and completely jam with them! And it sounds incredible! I have seen Gaelic Storm live and I know all the songs on this CD by heart and I can't wait to recieve their new CD, Herding Cats, in the mail!