Wandering Mintrel

Seamus Ennis | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 5, 1993)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Green Linnet
• ASIN: B000005CTC
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #542,722 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Wandering Minstrel/Jackson's Morning Brush

2. The Boys of Bluehill/Dunphy's Hornpipe

3. The Glen-Nephin Cuckooo/The Little Fair Cannavans

4. The Frieze Britches

5. The Flags of Dublin/The Wind That Shakes the Barley

6. The Litte Stack of Barley/Cronin's Hornpipe

7. The New Demesne

8. The Blackbird

9. Gillan's Apples/The Walls of Liscarroll/The Stone in the Field

10. Molly O'Malone

11. Kiss the Maid Behind the Barrel

12. Happy to Meet and Sorry to Part

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good album from one of the greats, June 30, 2003

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Kevin L. Rietmann (Oregon) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Wandering Mintrel (Audio CD)

Ennis in his later days was a bit of a hit or miss proposition; drink, car wrecks, and heart attacks had unsteadied his fingers much of the time, and he seemed to be intent, in a sense, on more of a pure expression than keeping a firm beat, lingering on notes for long durations in the fastest music, holding the chanter off the knee and applying vibrato, making his music far more unsuitable for dancing than it ever had been before, not that he ever considered it such. His ancient set of pipes had apparently always required a bit of extra strength to work properly, too, and this album has more than its fair share of flat bottom Ds and wavering drones, which will put off a casual listener at times in tunes like the jig the Freize Breeches; and in the recording the drones and regulators are a bit prominent at the expense of the chanter. Never the less, the recording quality is excellent, and Ennis gets in many magical moments here, a fine display of his mature style, warts and all.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Essential album of Irish piping, February 9, 1999

By 

Allen T. Garvin (Dallas, TX USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Wandering Mintrel (Audio CD)

This is an absolutely marvellous album primarily of Ennis' piping (he plays whistle on a couple tracks). Unaccompanied, he frequently makes full use of the regulators in his very rhythmic, utterly unique style. Along with albums by Willie Clancy and Leo Rowsome, this is essential for fans of the union pipes.