Chieftains - Essential Chieftains
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Artist: ChieftainsEdition: Music CD
Format: Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2006-02-21
Music Label: RCA
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- Lots Of Drops Of Brandy
- The Green Fields of America
- Santiago de Cuba
- The Donegal Set; Willy's Single\ King of the Pipers\ The Glen Road to Carrick
- Jabadaw
- The Bells of Dublin/Christmas Eve
- The French March
- The Stone
- The Munster Cloak/Tabhair Dom Do Lamh (Give Me Your Hand); The Munster Cloak\ Tabhair Dom Do Lamh (Give Me Your Hand)
- Chasing The Fox
- I Know My Love
- Shenandoah
- Country Blues
- Medley; Ladies Pantalettes\ Belles of Blackville\ First House in Connaught (Reels)
- The Foggy Dew
- Red is the Rose
- The Squid Jiggin' Ground / Larry O'Gaff; The Squid Jiggin' Ground\ Larry O'Gaff
- Lambs in the Greenfields
- Guadalupe
- Mo Ghile Mear ("Our Hero")
- Cotton-Eyed Joe
- Molly Bán (Bawn)
- Long Journey Home
- Love Is Teasin'
- The Rebel Jesus
- Il Est Né / Ca Berger; Il Est Ne\ Ca Berger
- Jimmy Mó Mhíle Stór
Free Music Notes for Essential Chieftains
Free Music Review: Celebrating a remarkable 40-year career
Hit: 5 Stars
It's probably best to just go out and buy every CD the Chieftains have ever released. Barring that -- or in addition to it -- The Essential Chieftains is a amazing two-disc collection spanning four decades of music.
Produced by Jerry Rappaport and band founder Paddy Moloney, the compilation spans the band's history from roots to branches. The first disc boasts 18 tracks from the Chieftains' extensive solo career, while the second provides 17 tracks from their numerous collaborations. Each track has been newly remastered from the original recordings to provide crystal-clear sound.
The very first track of disc 1, "Lots of Drops of Brandy" from the 2000 release Water from the Well, is the Chieftains at their prime. But as tracks progress, from 1977 to 2006, from 1992 to 1978, it quickly becomes clear that the Chieftains were always at the top of their game. Their musicianship is flawless, their arrangements clever and diverse, their devotion to Ireland's native music never in doubt.
But even in the band's solo albums, the Chieftains continued reaching out to other cultures with their music. "Full of Joy" seamlessly blends Irish sounds with a Chinese ensemble in 1987, while famed Spanish instrumentalist Carlos Nunez adds a Galician sound to the mix on 1996's "Santiago de Cuba." Within Ireland's borders, they joined forces with the excellent players of Altan for "The Donegal Set."
Samples from disc 2 include recordings with the Corrs, Van Morrison, Bela Fleck, Sinead O'Connor, the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Emmylou Harris, Linda Rondstadt, Los Lobos, Sting, Elvis Costello and the Rankins. The music is diverse, but the quality is uniform. And the Chieftains' ability to find the common ground between various styles and cultural traditions is nothing short of remarkable.
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Import only 37-track collection, part of Sony/BMG's 'Essential' line.More than 40 years on, the Chieftains are still the world's nonpareil Irish acoustic instrumental outfit. While celebrated for the international dissemination of their national mother lode they have actually promoted music from all six Celtic Nations; beginning with Ireland (Eire) but also honoring ancient folkways from Scotland (Alba), the Isle of Mann (Ellan Vannin), Brittany (Breizh), Wales (Cymru), and Cornwall (Kernow.) Furthermore, they have sought out musicians from other Celtic enclaves, such as Galicia (Northern Spain,) Cape Breton Island (Nova Scotia -- one of North America's few Gaelic-speaking regions) and the Southern U.S., where haunting modal tunes imported by mountain-dwelling Scots-Irish immigrants provided the essence of old-timey country and bluegrass music. There have also been pop-star collaborations and a myriad of concept, live-in-concert and tribute albums. The set includes excerpts from the thoroughly traditional "numbered" albums that made the group's reputation but also covers their pan-Celtic explorations, duets with stars of other genres, including Bela Fleck, Nanci Griffith, Linda Ronstadt and Los Lobos, plus encounters with notable Irish performers like Sinéad O'Connor, Van Morrison, and The Corrs. It is obviously impossible to encapsulate such a long and varied career, even over the length of two generously-filled disks, but this well-picked program gives an accurate picture of the band's astonishing scope and virtuosity. --Christina Roden
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