The Blue Idol

Artist: Altan
Label: Narada
Category: Music

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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 724381195529
EAN: 0724381195529
ASIN: B00005Y372

Release Date: 2002-02-26

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Listmania:

Featured Altan CDs
Some Good Celtic Music (in ABC order)
My favorite music irish, celtic, etc. in no order
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Tracks:

Daily Growing
Uncle Rat
Roaring Water
The Pretty Young Girl
The Blue Idol/The Butcher's March
The Gatehouse Maid/The Ashplant/The Trip To Cullenstown
Cuach mo Lon Dubh Bui
Mother's Delight/Ormond Sound
The Low Highland/Moneymusk/Duncan Davidson Highlands/The Wild Irishman
The Sea-Apprentice Boy
Slainte Theilinn
An Cailin Deas Og
Comb Your Hair And Curl It/Gweebarra Bridge

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Customer Reviews:

Great Example of High-Spirited Celtic Tradional Music.......2003-08-11

I love this CD because of it's range of sounds and tracks - it goes from reels to jigs and to songs sung in Gaelic. Overall the band is very tight - Altan's best CD yet!

Could have been so much better........2003-01-06

I'm really torn on this CD... it starts off with three of the most beautiful peices of music I've ever heard. And then what? Nothing... this CD is a perfect mix of the best and the most cliche and boring. Tracks 1,2,3, and 7 are beautiful and unique, while tracks 5,6,8 and 9 are makes of tunes that have been played by practically every Celtic band, whether Irish or Scottish, thats out there. And there is nothing about these later mentioned tracks that distinguishes them from the ordinary. So what this CD does is leave me skipping tracks. I do think though, that the good tracks alone are worth buying the whole CD, however boring the other tracks are. Altan is a respectable artist, but I can think of many other artists, better, and more complete in their goodness. If you don't mind the lack of vocals, Lunasa is one of the best Irish bands you can hear. Your money would be better spent on "Otherworld" by the aforementioned band.

Another Stong Outing.......2002-11-17

A longtime fan of Altan, I am very pleased with new CD. The band seems only to grow stonger and more confident with each new outing. Their live shows become more intimate and spontaneous. I especially enjoyed "Daily Growing", "Pretty Young Girl" and all the reel and jig sets. This is an excellent CD for fans of Irish or Celtic music.

This Album makes us feel at home.......2002-10-12

Thanks to all participating musicians for this superb album.
Listening to these tunes with closed eyes gives us the feeling as if we are sitting inside "Cul A Dun" in Teelin, Co.Donegal !
Especially Mairead's voice and her fiddleplay and Dermot's relaxed boxplaying is full of harmony. Nothing could be better!
( Except the next album...maybe ).

celtic new age.......2002-04-14

a perfect cross-breed between melody-celtic-and-new age. Their best yet!

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