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Thread #68579 Message #1239304
Posted By: Shanghaiceltic
02-Aug-04 - 09:05 PM
Thread Name: Review: Christy Moore Box Set
Subject: Review: Christy Moore Box Set
Could not find a reference in the files so hopefully I am not repeating anything here.
I bought the Christy Moore Box set whilst I was over in the UK and I can only say it is money well spent.
101 tracks some of which he has never released on record before. They cover his music from 1964-2004 and it is organised onto six discs each named by colour, red, green, pink etc. However the oranisation of the tracks onto each disc does not seem to follow a particular order of time, subject or event.
Some of the tracks are of poorer audio quality but as he says in the extenisive notes provided he was happy that someone illicitly recorded the particular song and captured the spirit of the night rather than the quality.
Whatever it is a wonderfull collection of songs and anecdotes and goes well with his autobiography 'One Voice'.
I also picked up the Planxty re-release "After the Break' and the 'Planxty Live 2004' both of which have some stunning playing.
I moved this message here from another thread on the same topic. -Joe Offer-