ROOTS RAMBLE: Sounds Irish

Thinking of some acquiring some Irish recordings that have more roots than branches, heavier on the fiddles than electric guitars? We can hook you up with several suggestions all easily found online for your antidote to rockers affecting tough-but-tender urban Irish attitudes.

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ROOTS RAMBLE: Sounds Irish

POSTED: Friday, March 16, 2012, 1:00 PM

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Altan’s The Poison Glen (Compass) will please people who love the sound of traditional music very lightly arranged with traditional instruments and the sweetest of old-style sopranos singing Gaelic and a bit of Dylan. The latter seems a requisite for trad bands out of Ireland these days.

From the heart of Sligo, Dervish preserve the traditions for sure but also add a dab of the Dylan, one they worked up for one of his birthday bashes and the crowds made them keep it. Dervish’s most recent is technically two years old, but is only now getting pushed in the US on CD Baby. It’s a live one titled From Stage to Stage.

Finally The Chieftains, surely traditional, but after 50 years on the road, who can blame then for wanting to share the kind of hybrids that evolve from jamming at festivals around the globe. Voice of Ages (Hear) has many guests, from Decembrists to Carolina Chocolate Drops. Do some combinations work smoothly while others sound like The Boys were added as an afterthought? Well, yeah, but no collection is complete without, right?

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