 | The Bells of Dublin [Read More ...]
Description: Ireland's world-class ambassadors the Chieftains seem determined to play with anyone who is anyone, regardless of genre. On The Bells of Dublin, they do an exceptional job of teaming up with the likes of rockers Jackson Browne and Elvis Costello, as well as songbirds Marianne Fai... |
 | The Best of the Chieftains [Read More ...]
Description: The tracks on The Best of the Chieftains are drawn from The Chieftains 7, The Chieftains 8, and Boil the Breakfast Early--three of the band's recordings from the late 1970s. This was the period when former Bothy Band and Planxty flautist Matt Molloy and vocalist/bodhran pla... |
 | Long Black Veil [Read More ...]
Description: More than three decades and many albums spent charting the gorgeous musical landscape of Ireland have made the Chieftains by far the world's most recognized and qualified ambassadors of Celtic sound and rhythm. Having toured the globe and garnered numerous awards, the traditional... |
 | Tears of Stone [Read More ...]
Description: 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... |
 | Water From the Well [Read More ...]
Description: On Water from the Well, Paddy Moloney and the Chieftains return to the traditional Irish music that first made their reputations in the early 60s. Unlike most of their recordings from the 1990s there is nary a rock star, folk singer, or symphony orchestra to be found. Instead the... |
 | The Essential Chieftains [Read More ...]
Import only 37-track collection, part of Sony/BMG's 'Essential' line. |
 | Down the Old Plank Road: The Nashville Sessions [Read More ...]
Description: Now that bluegrass is (again) momentarily cool, leave it to the Chieftains to (again) plunge an all-star country cast into the Celtic wellsprings of old-time music, just as they did 10 years ago with 1992's Another Country. It's no surprise that the Chieftains can handle the rapa... |
 | James Galway - Dances for Flute [Read More ...]
Review: James Galway Enchants with "Dances for Flute":I purchased this CD after hearing a couple of tracks on our local fine arts radio station, but was completely unprepared for the richness and beauty to be found therein. Galway is a past master of the flute.The selections on this CD,... |
 | The Chieftains 9: Boil the Breakfast Early [Read More ...]
Description: It took Paddy Maloney 15 years and eight LPs to assemble the incarnation of the Chieftains that plays on Boil the Breakfast Early, the band's ninth release. When former Planxty and Bothy Band flautist Matt Malloy joined up, the Chieftains were finally able to perform with a ... |
 | The Wide World Over: A 40 Year Celebration [Read More ...]
Description: One of the elements that's made the Chieftains the stellar Celtic band in the world is their love of innovative collaborations with mainstream pop stars. The Wide World Over: A 40-Year Celebration gathers into a single collection some of the Irish ensemble's most memorable mo... |
 | From the Beginning: The Chieftains 1 to 4 [Read More ...]
Description: This four-disc compilation boxes the Chieftains' first four albums in one set. The albums, which were first released between 1964 and 1973 on Claddagh, trace the early path of the ensemble as they discover and perfect a method of playing traditional Irish music as a band. (Prior ... |
 | Further Down the Old Plank Road [Read More ...]
Description: As on Another Country (1992) and The Old Plank Road (2002), the venerable Irish acoustic band celebrates the shared sources of Celtic music and America's Appalachian folk/old-timey/bluegrass canon. That several of the guest players are veterans of all three sets lends a note of c... |
 | An Irish Evening: Live At The Grand Opera House, Belfast [Read More ...]
Description: During the early '90s, the Chieftains embarked upon a series of multigenre crossover recordings. Major pop stars were brought in as guest artists and a few had the goods, but others came across as wannabes or well-meaning if clueless PR victims. This Grammy-winning live album fro... |
 | Silent Night: A Christmas in Rome [Read More ...]
Description: Paddy Maloney has spent three decades arranging music for one of the world's great instrumental groups, the Chieftains, which must have given him a hunger to write for the human voice. A Christmas in Rome features either choirs or solo singers on nearly every track. To sing his a... |
 | Santiago [Read More ...]
Description: When the Chieftains' intrepid bandleader, Paddy Moloney, first heard Carlos Núñez, a young recorder and bagpipe virtuoso from a far-flung Celtic outpost in Spanish Galicia, he was mightily intrigued. Santiago explores a tradition that draws on medieval, Spanish, and Celtic sour... |
 | Long Journey Home (1998 Television Mini-series) [Read More ...]
Review: Celtic Amazing Grace :A spiritual experience Vince Gill and Sinead O'Connor, laced with levity Mick Maloney, add to this recipe Eileen Ivers on Fiddle, the Chieftans, Van Morrison are some of my favorites. There isn't one track on this CD that you'll skip. The theme thoughout i... |
 | Celtic Wedding: Music of Brittany [Read More ...]
Description: Brittany, in western France, is an ancient Celtic homeland whose language and music are closely related to those of Wales and Cornwall. And although Breton folklorist Polig Monjarret only jokingly suggested that the Chieftains do a Breton album, they did just that. Celtic Wedding... |
 | Irish Heartbeat [Read More ...]
20 bit remastered reissue of Van's 1988 album for Polydor, acollaboration with the Chieftains. 10 tracks, including 'Star Of The County Down' & 'Marie's Wedding'. 1998 Exile/ Polydor release. |
 | Chieftains 8 [Read More ...]
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 | Another Country [Read More ...]
Description: Appalachian and Irish acoustic trad music make an appealing combination, and the Chieftains and their stateside colleagues do ample justice to both in this Grammy-winning charmer. American Country music developed primarily from Scots-Irish and British folk tunes, rather than the ... |
