Chieftains - Tears of Stone
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Artist: ChieftainsEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language), Stereo
CD Release Date: 1999-02-23
Music Label: RCA Victor
Soundtracks:
- Never Give All The Heart
- A Stor Mo Chroi
- The Lowlands Of Holland
- The Magdalene Laundries
- Jimmy Mo Mhile Stor
- I Know My Love
- Factory Girl
- Deserted Soldier
- Ye Rambling Boys Of Pleasure
- Sake In The Jar
- Raglan Road
- Siuil A Run
- The Fiddling Ladies
- Danny Boy
Free Music Notes for Tears of Stone
Free Music Review: Bright Women of Song & The Chieftains
Hit: 5 Stars
Leading Female Singers from around the world joined in this Celtic innovation from Gaelic Master Musicians--The Chieftains! The result is a lovely sample of song.
It's difficult to simply comment on a few selections because I love them all.
Bonnie Raitt gives a surprisingly different & striking performance of A Stór Mo Chroí. The sense of deep emotional loss in this song is very Gaelic--and it's very beautiful too.
The Magdalene Laundries by Joni Mitchell is another surprise of sorts, with its bitter, angry religious themes concerning female sexuality & "unwanted" pregnancy. An excellent composition that may be partially autobiographical? [NOTE: 09/09 Since writing this review, I watched the film THE MAGDALENE SISTERS & everything fell into place & made sense. However, JM's song is not in that highly recommended film.]
Jimmy Mó Mhíle Stór with The Ranklins is a real treat for us Gaelic lovers.
In Factory Girl by Siníad O'Connor the singer reminds us once again of her great talent for delivering a raw, purist sound.
Sake in The Jar is an Asian composition by singer Akiko Yano. The title is a word play on the traditional Irish tune Whiskey in The Jar. This song is a real treat. It's great the way the song subtley builds to an almost Dionysian crescendo.
Natalie Merchant, another greatly talented musician offers an almost lighthearted rendition of the sad The Lowlands of Holland
Dina Krall presents a very different vocal interpretation of Danny Boy--and it may be just be the best I've heard.
Other notable contributions by Brenda Frickler & Anúna (Never Give All the Heart); The Corrs (I know My Love); Mary Chapin Carpenter (Deserted Soldier); Loreena McKennitt (Ye Rambling Boys of Pleasure); Joan Osborne (Raglin Road); Sissel (Siúil A Run) a great rendering of a very sad, always apt & traditional tune.; Eileen Rivers, Natalie Machmaster, Marie Breatnach & Annbjorg Lien (The Fiddling Ladies) you just can't help but clap & dance along.
The Magdalene Sisters
Ophelia
Diamonds & Rust
Dog Eat Dog
I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got
Fundamental
Relish
Essential Mary Chapin Carpenter
Uprooted
The Corrs - Best Of + 1
Japanese Girl
Twilight: The Best of Akiko Yano Live
Tears of Stone Poster
This 1999 release has the Chieftains collaborating with guest female vocalists and musicians including Bonnie Raitt, Natalie Merchant, Joni Mitchell, Diana Krall, Joan Osbourne, Akikio Yano, Sinead O'Connor and more.So thoroughly identified are they with Irish music, that even when the Chieftains depart from the tradition--to collaborate with Chinese, country, or pop musicians, for example--they lose not a drop of credibility in the process. On Tears of Stone, the group accompanies a bevy of internationally acclaimed female vocalists on traditional tunes with inventive new arrangements by Paddy Moloney. Sinead O'Connor and the Corrs remain close to their roots, while Bonnie Raitt, Mary-Chapin Carpenter, Loreena McKennitt, and Joan Osborne all sound more than convincingly Celtic. The best performances, however, are by those artists least attached to the tradition. Moloney's take on Joni Mitchell's "The Magdalene Laundries" outdoes the original; "Sake in the Jar," composed for Japanese pop star Akiko Yano, sounds like a new form of music altogether; and Canadian jazz singer Diana Krall's "Danny Boy" doesn't so much tug at the heartstrings as rip them out by the roots. --Richard Gehr
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