If you're looking for a highly comprehensive album of traditional folk music from Ireland, you can't go wrong with this sampler (the second edition) from the "Rough Guide" series. The album covers Irish music from almost all angles, offering a selection that contains both vocal and instrumental tunes, polkas, jigs, reels, ballads and more. Rather than filling the album with artists that are well-known on this side of the Atlantic (Altan being the exception), most of these artists are more obscure, yet equally talented. As a result, you feel like you are experiencing the real thing - authentic music that might be overheard in a Donegal tavern, rather than a big city recording studio.
1. Flook - G.D. Hooper's Loop / Pressed For Time 4:42
2. Dervish - An T-Ull 2:17
3. Frankie Gavin - The Night Cap / The Frost is All.. 2:46
4. Maighread & Triona Ni Dhomhnaill - Liostail Me... 2:38
5. The Prodigals - The Morning After 3:08
6. Seamus Quinn & Gary Hastings - Paddy Killoran's 2:09
7. Paddy Keenan & Tommy O'Sullivan - Antara 4:04
8. Lasairfhiona Ni Chonaola - Bean Phaidin 2:18
9. Ciaran O'Maonaigh - Loughisle Castle 1:17
10. Mary McPartlan - Slieve Gallion Braes 2:35
11. Seamus Creagh & Aidan Coffe - Hughie Travers 3:09
12. Paul Brady - Mary & the Soldier 3:55
13. Matt Molloy - A Stor Mo Chroi / The Primrose Lass 4:11
14. Seamus Begley & Jim Murray - An Seanduine 4:06
15. North Cregg - Polkas (Callaghan's/Glen Cottage...) 3:59
16. Cran - Taimse 'n Arrears 3:14
17. Paul Moran & Fergal Scahill - The Cuil Aodha Slide 2:20
18. Lunasa - The Walrus 2:39
19. Helen Roche - As I Roved Out 4:16
20. Paul McGrattan - Lark On the Strand / The Geese 3:50
21. Altan - The Humours of Castlefin / Nia's Dance 3:26
22. Gerry O'Connor - Cam A' Lochaigh (Curve of the...) 3:21
If you're looking for a highly comprehensive album of traditional folk music from Ireland, you can't go wrong with this sampler (the second edition) from the "Rough Guide" series. The album covers Irish music from almost all angles, offering a selection that contains both vocal and instrumental tunes, polkas, jigs, reels, ballads and more. Rather than filling the album with artists that are well-known on this side of the Atlantic (Altan being the exception), most of these artists are more obscure, yet equally talented. As a result, you feel like you are experiencing the real thing - authentic music that might be overheard in a Donegal tavern, rather than a big city recording studio.
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