favorite no-frills album

[tin tin]

I'm listening to Jack and Charlie Coen's The Branch Line and am once again struck by the understated beauty of this soulful, and (deceptively) 'simple' recording, where the tunes are front and center. So there's my vote (at the moment) for favorite no-frills flute album.

Joe Burke's The Tailor's Choice would be another pick, and I'm terribly remiss in not (yet) owning Josie McDermott's Darby's Farewell.

What recordings are deep wells for you?

[dlambert]

Even though its a whistle album - Gavin Whelan's self titled work. Another is The Maple Leaf by Jimmy Noonan and friends.

[Rob Sharer]

Cathal McConnell, Lough Erne Shore.


There's aytin' and dhrinkin' in it.


Rob

[Julia Delaney]

My favorite CD changes over time. Overall it's probably this: An Historic Recording Of Irish Traditional Music Paddy Canny, P.J. Hayes, Peader O'Loughlin, Bridie Lafferty. The crusty Tony McMahon calls it the best ITM album of all. I agree with him.

This week I received these in the mail and they are terrific:
Seán Ryan CD1 Sean Ryan
Seán Ryan CD2 Sean Ryan

http://www.thesession.org/recordings/display/3872

You can order these directly from Sean Ryan's grandson. His email: fionacorbetryan@hotmail.com

Just fiddle, and it's purely wonderful.

[Casey Burns]

Contentment is Wealth

[Cathy Wilde]

Oh, dear, there are so many and they change. But over the years, for truly no-frills, all-flute all-the-time awesomeness ... Conal O'Grada's "Top of Coom" and "Cnoc Bui." Second would probably be Paddy Taylor's "The Boy in the Gap" and Roger Sherlock's "Memories of Sligo." Other ones I keep returning to that have more/different instruments would be Frankie Kennedy & Mairead ni Mhaonaigh's "Ceol Aduadh," the Coens' "The Branch Line," Crotty/Cullinans' "Happy to Meet, "Warming Up," "Molloy/Brady/Peoples," "The Missing Reel (John Lee & Seamus McGuire)," Angelina Carberry's "An Tradisiun Beo," the McKeon Family's "The Dusty Miller," Michael Cooney's "Just Piping" (you want no-frills? ) Martin O'Brien's "An Cran Carraig," Kathleen Collin's "Traditional Music of Ireland" (yummy fiddling) and a goodly portion of John Carty's output plus anything Mary MacNamara, Brid O'Donoghue, Mary Bergin or Donncha O'Brien.

[crookedtune]

Mike Rafferty's 'Speed 78'.

[dontf]

My current favorite is Billy Clifford's "Echos of Sliabh Luachra". Also Paddy Carty, "Traditional Irish Music".

[maracirac]

john creavan - ''story so far'', see: http://www.thesession.org/recordings/display/877
marin

[Denny]

used to be some here....

[Jäger]

Not just flute, but absolutely no frills and a huge favourite of mine is Tommy Healy & John Duffy - Memories of Sligo. Just flute and fiddle. Backed by Reg Hall on some tunes. And just tunes. All tunes, nothing fancy. Except their to-die-for playing.

[oleorezinator]

Ceol an Cláir
Bobby Casey - Taking Flight
Noel Hill and Tony Linnane
In no particular order.

[harrywhohaa]

McGreevy and Cooley - I love for showing the life in some really common tunes and also that I found it unlistenably scratchy when I first started playing irish music but now appreciate it

Doublin' - The Paddy's Glackin and Keenan, "Jenny's welcome to Charlie" still gives me goosebumps on every listen

[Aanvil]

The Maple Leaf
James Noonan, Michael Shorrock, Chris McGrath & Ted Davis


Clear, strong but sweet.

Most all of it is flute forward. All chunes.

I highly recommend it.

It's on iTunes and Amazon.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Maple-Leaf/dp ... 926&sr=8-1

[RudallRose]

the purest of the pure: Molloy's Stoney Steps.
None better for the artist's absolute essence of playing.