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** 101 of John Vechey's favorite #IrishMusic **
I play #IrishTraditionalMusic and naturally love listening to it.
This is the start of thread of 101 of the albums I've most loved, have influenced me the most, or I just find particularly wonderful.
I am going to take my time and write this over a period of months.
So please enjoy, I'm happy to take suggestions of new things to listen to, and no offense to anything that doesn't make the list.
Let's go!
1) Scully's Fest 2015
I discovered this album after posting on thesession.org (the online hub of #IrishTrad musicians) asking for some contemporary Sliabh Luachra music.
Scully's is a bar in Newmarket Co. Cork. About 40 years ago a weekly session got started by Jackie Daly and other local players.
In 2009 a festival was started there. By 2015 it had grown in local stature.
There is no album where I feel a closer connection to a time and place of the tradition.
2) Star Above the Garter
Outside of having the best cover art in #IrishTraditionalMusic the Star Above the Garter is probably the most famous album of Sliabh Luachra music.
Created by siblings Julia Clifford and Dennis Murphy and recorded in 1969.
The Murphys are some of the most famous students of famed Sliabh Luachra teacher Padraig O'Keeffe.
You'll hear lots of drone notes, and on many tracks they're playing a half step down.
An album of pulse and blue notes.
https://music.apple.com/us/album/the-star-above-the-garter/1573284112
@PlasticJohnny Love this..