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Celebrating The Celts     by Jim Trageser
This review first appeared in the January 17, 1997 issue of the North County Times.
If you have any taste at all for the music of Eire, if your pulse races when you hear tunes from the Scottish Highlands, if you actually enjoy bagpipes and if all that is Gael and Celt sets your heart ablaze, then this new two-CD set from Green Linnet is must listening.
There are more than two hours of reels, jigs and heartbreaking ballads on this compilation/sampler from the Connecticut label that specializes in Celtic music. From fiddle hoedowns to Irish dance bands to great Gaelic balladeers, this set is both exhilarating and enchanting. Some of the better-known acts include The Tannahill Weavers, Seamus Ennis, Patrick Street, Wolfstone and June Tabor.
And this CD would be worth its price if all it contained was Tabor's interpretation of "No Man's Land/Flowers of the Forest" and Robbie O'Connell singing "There Were Roses." Both are anti-war anthems, sung by two of the finest vocalists of any tradition, and both are two of the best examples of the street of deep blue that runs through the green hills of Ireland and Scotland.

Tracklisting
CD2:
1. Crooked Road/Foxhunter's Reel - Hayes, Martin
2. Cameronian Suite - Cherish The Ladies
3. Wishing Tree - McGuire, Seamus
4. Ballavanich - Wolfstone
5. Gort To Texas To Honolulu - Reeltime
6. There Were Roses - Keane, Jimmy
7. Winnie Hayes' Jig/Lonesome Jig - Williams, John
8. Rigney's/Ambrose Moloney's - O'Brien, Paddy
9. Two-And-Sixpenny Girl/Boys Of The Town - Clarke, Eddie
10. Bolen's Fancy/Dunmore Lasses/Maid Behind The Bar/Glass Of Be - Touchstone
11. No Man's Land/Flowers Of The Forest - Tabor, June
12. Pharoah - House Band
13. Maud Miller/Sailor's Return/Paddy Murphy's Wife - Keane, James
14. Celtic Lament - O'Donnell, Eugene
15. Johnny Allen's/Sporting Nell - McComiskey, Billy
16. Song For Ireland - Gaughan, Dick
17. Master Crowley's/Jug Of Punch - Lennon, Charlie
18. Jig And Five Reels - Bothy Band

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