40 yrs of Irish Piping-NEW CD-online!

24 Apr 00 - 08:42 PM (#217324)
Subject: 40 yrs of Irish Piping-NEW CD-online!
From: katlaughing

Before I say anything about this, please remember, when you buy CDs from Camsco Music, owned by Dick Greenhaus, founder & guru of the DigiTrad, you support the DT. When you buy CDs from Max, you support the Mudcat, either way, it helps, phoaks!

Now, Dick has said he can get just about anything, so I am willing to bet he can get this for you. At Green Linnet you will find a list of CDs you can listen to, in their entirety. I mentioned this one last night in HearMe and got it wrong. I said it was fiddle music and Jeri went bonkers. Sorry, Jeri!

So, it is a new one called, Forty Years of Irish Piping by Seamus Ennis and includes a bunch of field recordings. I am finding it fantastic to listen to and I am not even through the whole thing, yet! Here is the blurb. It says it's a double length cassette, but on the site, it says first time offered on CD:

Forty Years Of Irish Piping -- #1000
The definitive performances of one of Ireland's great pipers. What we did not record ourselves has been edited and reprocessed from old and rare sources. This illustrated and documented musical biography is a double-length cassette.

Songs
The Merry Blacksmith / The Rainy Day / The Silver Spear * "First You Must Learn the Grip" * The Bucks of Oranmore * The Sligo Maid's Lament * The Praties are Dug and the Frost is All Over * The Fox Chase * If All the Young Maidens were Blackbirds and Thrushes * The Copper Plate * The Silver Spear / The Dublin Reel / Miss Monahan * Salamanca / Duke Gordon * Don Niperi Septo * Donegal Reel * Paudeen O'Rafferty / The Friar's Jig * Speed the Plough / The Merry Blacksmith / The Forge Music * The Lark's March * Sixpenny Money / When the Cock Crows it is Day * Piper of the Embers / Down the Back Lane / Sixpenny Money * I'll Mend Your Pots and Kettles O * The Broken Pledge * Paddy Killoran's Reel * Gentle Philip Fahy

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24 Apr 00 - 09:15 PM (#217347)
Subject: RE: 40 yrs of Irish Piping-NEW CD-online!
From: Malcolm Douglas

Definitely worth having if you're interested in the development of piping techniques; Seamus Ennis had a very individual style, and has been a big influence on later players.  Many of the pieces on this recording are quite unusual versions.  So far as I can remember, it was originally issued as a double (vinyl) album in the 1970s, with an additional track not mentioned at the Green Linnet site (two reels: The Braes of Busby and Colonel Frazer.)  Ennis was also an important collector of folk song and music.  Two of these tracks, First You Must Learn the Grip and Don Niperi Septo are stories told by Ennis.

Malcolm

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