Once Again

Altan | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (December 26, 2000)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Recall Records UK
• ASIN: B000050F4M
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #787,285 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. Con Cassidy's Highland/Neilly O'Boyle's Highland & Reel

2. The Sunset

3. Ceol A'phiobaire

4. An Tseanchailleach Gallda/Dermot Byrne's

5. Tommy Peoples'/Loch Altan/Danny Meehan's

6. Ta Mo Chleamhnas A Dheanamh

7. The Lass Of Glenshee

8. Tuirse Mo Chroi

9. A Bhean Udai Thall

10. The Road To Durham

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Disc: 2

1. 'Si Do Mhaimeo I

2. Drowsy Maggie/Rakish Paddy/Harvest Storm

3. Donal Agus Morag

4. A Nobleman's Wedding

5. The Snowy Path

6. King Of The Pipers

7. Mo Choill

8. Dobbin's Flowery Vale

9. (Aingeal An Oileain) Island Angel

10. Brid Og Ni Mhaille

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Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

Founded in the early 1980s by the Irish husband-and-wife team of flautist Frankie Kennedy and Donegal-style fiddler and singer Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh, Altan worked ground made familiar to international audiences by Planxty, Clannad, and De Dannan. Uncommonly good musicianship, Ní Mhaonaigh's ethereal voice, and a rich catalog of material set them well apart from other new-traditionalist Celtic bands, but it took several releases on Connecticut's Green Linnet label for them to build much of a following. This two-CD collection gathers some of the band's best work of the Green Linnet years, including the angelic signature "Sunset" and spirited reels "Ceol A'phiobaire" and "Drowsy Maggie." The players include Ciarán Curran on bouzouki, Mark Kelly on guitar, and Ciarán Tourish on fiddle. Together, the band's work shines with tasteful economy and seemingly endless energy. Coupled with Altan's Finest, this compilation gives a thorough accounting of the band's storied career, deserving a place in any Celtic-music buff's collection. --Gregory McNamee