Sweeney's Dream

Artist: Kevin Burke
Label: Smithsonian Folkways
Category: Music

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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 093074048528
EAN: 0093074048528
ASIN: B0000584VP

Release Date: 2001-02-27

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Tracks:

Love At The Endings/John McGrath's Reel
The Humours Of Lissadell/Sweeney's Dream
Murphy's Hornpipe
The Sligo Maid/The Woman Of The House/The Sailor's Bonnet
The Strayaway Child
The College Groves
Toss The Feathers
The King Of The Fairies
The Mason's Apron/Laington's Reel
The Bunch Of Keys/The Girl That Broke My Heart
Bonnie Kate/Jennie's Chicken
Rise A Mile 9Ride A Mile, Ride A Mule)
Brendan McGlinchey's Reel (Splendid Isolation/Sweeney's Buttermilk
Tuttle's Reel/The Chicken In The Saucepan (The Maids Of Mitchelstown)
The Kid On The Mountain
The Killarney Wonder Schottisches Guren Castle And The Finnea Lasses/The Long Note
George White's Favourite/The Happy Days Of Youth/Coleman's Cross

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Customer Reviews:

One fiddler alone keeping a pub spellbound in the old style!.......2003-04-04

Failte! (Greetings) Kevin Burke is one of the few fiddlers I can think of that could walk into any pub in Ireland, get out his fiddle and start playing through any of the hundreds of memorized traditional Irish tunes and keep his audience quiet and spellbound for extended periods of time absolutely alone. Kevin calls this "naked fiddle" with no other instruments involved to cover up what they call in the old country a "fiddler's fart." This is a follow up album to "If the Cap Fits," which is no longer available new. This is traditional Irish Music played the traditional way for fun and relaxation. Recorded in the early 1970's, this recalls a time before big budget albums and concerts. This was before competitions. In fact, if you had put a bunch of fiddlers together in the same pub, they wouldn't compete against each other. They would drink Guinness and jam until the "wee hours" of the morning together. This wasn't a primary "who the alpha male or female fiddler" thing. It was an enjoy the music and companionship thing. If you are building a Celtic Music Collection, this old style of playing needs to be represented. This album with "The Traditional Music of Ireland" by James Kelley, Paddy O'Brien and Daithi Sproule (which is still available but hard to access on Amazon.com) are excellent examples of this era of pub music. You can find Kevin's current music with the band Patrick Street either on album of frequent U.S. performances. Ceol de Erin Go Bragh! (Music of Ireland forever!)

Lovely, spare, fiery.......2001-12-12

Burke sounds wonderful here, and every note he plays can be heard, as this recording was done without a backing band. Celtic music fans will enjoy this album, and fiddle people will treasure it.

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