favorite no-frills album

[s1m0n]

Cathal McConnell, Lough Erne Shore.


There's aytin' and dhrinkin' in it.

I like his duet record with Robin Morton, too.

~~

But my #1 answer to this question is the Paddy Carty LP. Oh, and Music at Matt Molloy's if that qualifies.

[tucson_whistler]

ok, i'm buying all of these

cheers,
eric

[Berti66]

ahh. great thread, now I can make a new list to add to the collection later this year.
have quite a few already though.......
THANKS

[dunnp]

Two things getting loads of play on my Spotify are Colm O Donnell Farewell to the Evening Dances and Catherine McCevoy and co.
Comb Your Hair and Curl It. Also the Comhaltas Archive tracks of John Brady and Larry Mcdonagh just search flute and you'll be inundated with tracks of players you may only of heard of but not really heard. I like Seamus Macmathuna's style did he ever do a recording?

[Jayhawk]

Maraciric, Cathy & David stole my 3 favorites:

John Creavan - The Story so Far
Frankie Kennedy & Mairead ni Mhaonaigh's - Ceol Aduadh
Matt Malloy - Stoney Steps

Eric

[Steampacket]

Bunch of keys / Johnny Doran
Top of Coom / Conal O'Grada
Cnoc Bui / Conal O'Grada
At the Cobblesstone http://source.pipers.ie/Section.aspx?id=2 / Máire Ní Ghráda and Pat Aherne
Broke down engine / Blind Willie McTell
Irish pipes / Finbar Fury
Me and the Devil / Robert Johnson
Iron man / Tommy Peoples
Return From Fingal / Seamus Ennis
Gold Ring / Willie Clancy
Bavan / Meabh O'Hare & Conor Bryne
She belongs to me / Bob Dylan
Köln concert / Keith Jarrett
Liffey banks / Tommy Potts

[Rob Sharer]

Frankie Kennedy & Mairead ni Mhaonaigh's - Ceol Aduadh

Now, I dearly love this record, but I detect nascent frills.


Rob

[Jayhawk]

Well Rob, since they're only nascent frills...I'm OK with that.

Eric

[rama]

joe and the gabe
joe heaney and gabe o'sullivan

'tommy whelan...'tis the greatest of them all...' - the gabe


edited: my sincere apologies, i forgot to mention joe cooley's recording

[kenny]

"Bad Turns And Horseshoe Bends" - Harry Bradley.

[Julia Delaney]

Glad somebody mentioned Harry Bradley. A terrific player and a smart, warm man with a great sense of humor.
Thanks Kenny.

[Cathy Wilde]

Argh, so many! I forgot all about those, and Harry's record with Michael Clarkson, too. That one's a humdinger. And speaking of Northern favorites, Laurence Nugent's first one is grand as well.

[peter20p]

Hello, I'm new to the form, reading it for a while but its my first post. My name is Peter and I'm a learner on flute for nearly a year now.

My favourite albums are all the CD's by Harry Bradley, "The thing itself" by Peter O'Loughlin and Maeve Donnely. I also like the playing (and recordings) of Catherine McEvoy, John Wynne, Marcas O'Murchu and Conal O'Grada.

For non-flute : Tim Collins Dancing on silver

Peter

[crickett]

I love threads like this because I always learn from fellow-chiffers about things I need to check out. That's why I am bumping it. Two of my favorites have already been mentioned:

Cnoc Bui / Conal O'Grada
Bad Turns And Horseshoe Bends / Harry Bradley.

I confess, though, that sometimes I listen to the discs from June McCormick's tutorials from beginning to end (skipping the ornamentation samples at the very beginning). I find her playing, slow or fast, to be simply lovely of its kind. I realize these discs don't really count as albums, but you can't get much more no-frills!

[kenny]

I don't know whether or not this has been mentioned here before, but having just purchased an iPod Touch, and having been raking through the iTunes store for the first time, it would appear that Harry Bradley's "Bad Turns And Horseshoe Bends" can be downloaded from there. The original CD was on the "Outlet" label from Belfast, but they went bust not long after "Bad Turns..." was released. [ I do not believe the 2 events were connected ] What this meant was that Harry's first CD is now extremely difficult to get hold of - I haven't seen one on eBay for nearly 2 years now, so if you've been looking for it in vain up until now, that's the way to go. Every home should have one.