The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem : Johnny McEldoo [ purchase ] The story of Johnny McEldoo illustrates perfectly how the sin of gluttony can turn deadly, even though the title character and his pals survive. Geovicki's use of anime imagery inspired my choice of picture for this post. It comes from Hayao Miyazaki's masterpiece Spirited Away. If you haven't seen it, I highly recommend it. If you're keeping score at home, you will notice that this is the seventh post this week. However, there were two posts [...]
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 [...]
Here is the second part of musicians who died in 2009. Part 3 will follow early in the new year. I make no claims of having arrived at a complete and exhaustive list of musicians who left us the past year. Some I didn't include because their names or output is unfamiliar to me, or just not my scene; and a few I left out because I have no music by them, and could not find any. Finally, in response to an e-mail, the photo gallery follows the order in which people are [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
"Roddy McCorley was a local leader in County Antrim in Ireland during the rebellion of 1798. After being captured by British Soldiers he was executed in the town of Toomebridge.. The song was adapted by the Clancy Brothers from words written by Ethna Carberry who lived from 1866-1902.The Clancy Brothers recorded the song on the 1961 album 'The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem' on Tradition Records." MP3 File
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: [...]
The Clancy Brothers - Whiskey, You're The Devil (ysi)
My Irish heritage is a tattoo on my soul. She drapes my dreams as she flies over my bed. She drowns my clear thoughts on too much of a consistent basis. Thus, my ode to St. Patrick (not St. Paddy) can be nothing more than drinking a fine Irish brew and listening to the jovial jigs of Irish songwriters. Take these songs and feel the love. Perhaps wear some green and act like you're Irish, too. I don't mind. MP3: Dropkick Murphys - Boys on the Docks MP3: Clancy Brothers - Whiskey in the [...]
I was planning on doing some sort of "Best Covers of 2007" retrospective or something, but I'm sure you're already as sick of those lists as I am, so instead of looking back this week, I'm gonna look forward, to 2008. Lord knows I'm not the only one hoping that year brings some major changes in the world and this country in, oh let's say, November. So in hopes of that today's theme is revolution at its most extreme, social change at its least. This country's direction needs to change fast for a litany of reasons you [...]
The fine folks over at Vanguard Records have dug through their vaults to put together a collection of albums from influential artists which they've titled Vanguard Visionar ies . Every album contains ten defining songs from each artist, almost a greatest hits album, but with these artists a greatest hits album would have to be something like three discs, not one. Here are three of the thirty four artists they are offering: It would be difficult to talk about [...]
If you celebrate St. Patrick's day by breaking out all the Irish drinking songs you can find, playing them for the week before, and then promptly packing them up the day after, then No Fixed Abode might not be for you. If, on the other hand, you find yourself enjoying listening to Nanci Griffith singing with The Chieftains year round, come rain, sun, or snow, you just might enjoy Clearwater , the latest release by No Fixed Abode. [...]
I searched and searched this morning for my classic Irish music CD to no avail. Does anybody have a good [and upbeat] version of Molly Mallone ? Anyway, here are a few Irish tunes: The Clancy Brothers - Mountain Dew [mp3] Gaelic Storm - After Hours at McGann's [Arrangement of: "The Primrose Lass", "Hewlett's Reel", and "Reel Gan Anim"] [mp3] Paddyrasta - Molly Malone [mp3] [Rasta/Celtic? whatever.] And what's a holiday without Cat Drinking Songs! [...]
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