Altan - The Blue Idol
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Music CD Cover Artist: Altan Edition: Music CD CD Release Date: 2002-02-26 Music Label: Narada Soundtracks:
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Free Music Notes for The Blue Idol Album
Free Music Review: brilliance and beauty, as usual
Hit: 5 Stars
Altan has never released a less than fully satisfying recording, and in that sense The Blue Idol is entirely predictable. As Altan always does, it wraps the Irish tradition in inventive modern arrangements, without resorting to cloying New Age or sappy pop-fusion sounds. Altan is, instead, a branch from a tree with deep, deep roots.Even by the standards Altan has set for itself, however, Blue Idol is exceptional. The opener, "Daily Growing" (often recorded as "The Trees They Do Grow High"), is something of a folk standard -- I first heard it on a Judy Collins album in the 1960s, and Collins was hardly the first revival singer to pick it up -- but Altan's version is such a perfect wedding of the erotic and the tragic that it draws the listener in, takes the breath away, and commands the ear and the heart. It's also a pleasure to hear Paul Brady's reedy tenor, now in service to its owner's career as rock singer-songwriter, working in a traditional context again. In "The Pretty Young Girl" Dolly Parton so convincingly assumes the persona of a veteran Altanian that I didn't recognize her until I looked at the liner notes. Which surely says a whole lot, all of it favorable, about both her and the band. "Uncle Rat" is a rarity, a non-American variant of the famous children's song "Froggie Went A-Courting," recorded by everybody from Burl Ives to Bob Dylan. Mairead Ni Mhaonaigh's vocals, always an object of wonder, are as welcome as always; I am especially enamored of her handling of "The Sea-Apprentice Boy." The jigs and reels are, of course, well chosen and brilliantly performed.
It all raises the unsettling question of how a band so good could keep getting better. Here's to a long, long life and the even greater music -- though the mind boggles at the very concept -- to come.