Irish Voices: The Best in Traditional Singing [Import]

Va-Irish Voices | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 8, 1997)
• Original Release Date: April 8, 1997
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Topic Records
• ASIN: B00000591P
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #403,592 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Humours of the King of Ballyhooley

2. Stór Mo Chroí

3. Blackwaterside

4. The Traveller All over the World

5. The Raggle Taggle Gypsy

6. P for Paddy

7. The Rollicking Boys of Tandaragee

8. A Bucket of the Mountain Dew

9. Bean an Leanna (The Woman With the Beer)

10. The Wind That Shakes the Barley

11. The Song of the Riddles

12. An Sgeilpin Droighneach (The Thorny Ledge)

13. The Maid on the Shore

14. The Lake of Coolfin

15. John Reilly

16. The Green Fields of America

17. High on a Mountain

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Leave the instruments at home, June 15, 2001

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Gerald Joyce (Chicago, IL USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Irish Voices: The Best in Traditional Singing (Audio CD)

Unaccompanied Irish singing is, to my mind, the purest of all Irish musical forms. If you're not used to Irish singing, the first thing you'll have to get used to is that Irish singing has far more to do with style and projecting emotion that having a voice that will get you on stage at La Scala. Often, the singers with the most gravelly voices are able to draw you into the song more than some of Ireland's more well know "ballad" singers. Tomas O'Neachtain's Sceilpin Draigneach will have the hair standing up on the back you your neck. The pain in his voice is apparent whether or not you understand any Irish. Joe Heaney (Joe Einniu) is fantastic on Bean a' Leanna. Any one who likes this Connemara style (called Sean Nos in Irish)would do well to go to the Clo Iar-Chonnachta website for gobs more. Representing the North you can't ask for more than Paddy Tunney and Len Graham (well, maybe they could have put Geordie Hannah on here too). Overall fantastic, I really hope this company releases more disks of unaccompanied stuff soon. Also, if you like this CD you will really like a CD called "Hurry the Jug". Slan agus Beannacht. -Gearoid.