I am not, by nature, a neat or well-organized person. Instead, I am cursed by ADHD, & natural tendencies towards entropy and laziness and procrastination, coupled with a pack-rat's collecting mentality and a keen visual sense of where I left things which makes tidying up an exercise in planned futility. And so, for the entirety of my adulthood, I have lived a life which, in its extreme moments, exhibits all the characteristics of relative squalor: clothes on every inch of the bedroom and bathroom floor, more dishes by the sink than in the [...]
Today's installment covers 45 songs - including what Dylan has claimed is his favorite cover ever!
We heard Damien Rice perform "What If I'm Wrong?," the theme tune to When the Dragon Swallowed the Sun , not to mention his first new songs in years, back in February, but now we have a new official release and studio debut from his post-Lisa Hannigan singing partner, Julia Dubsky, as well. One look at the album's cover art , and it's no wonder this somewhat obscure soundtrack has remained under the radar since dropping in early March… Rice, the Swell Season's Glen Hansard, Shane MacGowan, Sinead O'Connor, the [...]
Liam Clancy : Navvy Boots On [ purchase ] Originally the term 'navvy' was used for the navigators who were the men who first dug canals and performed inland navigation in Australia. Skilled at moving rock and earth by hand they were also known as excavators, bankers, diggers, and occasionally as pinchers, blue stockings, thick legs or bill boys tradesmen. They were considered an underclass of people who had their own style of dress and way of life that lasted from the mid-18th century to about the 1940s. The term, though [...]
The last member of one of the first internationally successful Irish music acts passed away last week. Liam Clancy finally succumbed to interstital lung disease on December 4th in a hospital in Cork city and was buried in Ring, Co Waterford a few days later. No less a figure than Bob Dylan had this to say about him: "I never heard a singer as good as him ever. He was just the best ballad singers I ever heard in my life, still is probably". The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem were one of many acts that showed up regularly on [...]
Long a staple of the 60s folk movement, The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem, stayed true to the nature of folk music, that being the revival and revitalization of lost or forgotten songs written outside of the pop realm. At least that's how it began. Soon folk music became pop, and the corruption and distortion of the movement began. It wasn't long before The Byrds and Peter Paul and Mary were the forerunners and the whole "folk" genre became a quagmire. There's no question you've heard The Clancy Brothers' "Whiskey You're The Devil," but it's really in the ballads that [...]
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Filed under: News , R.I.P. Liam Clancy , an Irish folk singer whom Bob Dylan described as "the best ballad singer I've ever heard in my life," died Friday at a hospital in Cork, Ireland. He was 74 years old. Clancy had been suffering from pulmonary fibrosis, an incurable disease that destroys the lungs, for many years. The same disease took the life of Clancy's older brother Bobby in 2002. Clancy was born in Carrick-on-Suir, County Tipperary, Ireland on September 2, 1935, the youngest of [...]
The man whom Bob Dylan called "the best ballad singer I've ever heard," Liam Clancy, has passed away in a Cork, Ireland hospital at the age of 74, reports the AP. Clancy was the last surviving member of the Irish folk group the Clancy Brothers, who played an integral role in both spreading traditional Irish music across the globe and inspiring the 1960s folk revival. He and his brothers Bobby, Tom and Paddy (that's Patrick, if you don't know your Irish nicknames), emigrated to the States at different times (three to pursue acting careers), but later [...]
RTE are reporting that the influential Clancy Brother died in hospital in Cork this afternoon aged 74. Read a recent interview State conducted with Liam and the director the film biopic about him, The Yellow Bittern . Related Interview with Liam Clancy and Alan Gilsenan
The Yellow Bittern , Alan Gilsenan's biopic of Liam Clancy is a rather surprising illustration of 20th century counter-culture, meandering as it does from 1930s Ireland to the folk hey-day of 1960s Greenwich Village, New York and up to the present day. State recently chatted to Liam Clancy and filmmaker Alan Gilsenan about the film prior to its release on September 11th. The film started off as a documentary… Alan: Well it did but the plan was always to make a feature documentary, but part of that was [...]
You know what to do. The Pogues - The Parting Glass ( buy ) The Pogues featuring The Dubliners - The Irish Rover ( buy ) The Dubliners - Whiskey In The Jar ( buy ) Liam Clancy - All For Me Grog ( buy ) The Clancy Brothers - Finnegan's Wake ( buy ) This one's too good for just one version: [...]
This song comes from an album called Thousands Are Sailing: Irish Songs Of Immigration. My great grandfathers were among them. MP3 File yousendit
I love Ireland. Eight years ago this Spring, my wife Maureen and I spent our honeymoon driving the narrow roads (and stopping at the occasional pub) from Ennis to Galway to Dingle to Kenmare. The scenery was beautiful, the people were gracious and fun, the Guinness was creamy, the food was surprisingly delicions and the music was pretty good too. In anticipation of St. Patrick's Day, this post celebrates my favorite traditional Irish music. I'll start with seven songs that go well with a delicious Guinness down at the local [...]
Here's another re-post from back in the early days of this blog: One of the best early Bob Dylan tracks is With God On Our Side (mp3) ( buy album ) from his third album, The Times They Are A-Changin' (1964). It's a powerful song. Read the All Music Guide review here . And if you want more early Dylan, there is a great 1962 radio interview (with many songs performed and a few lies told) here . [...]
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