The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem (album)
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The Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem is a collection of traditional Irish songs performed by The Clancy Brothers with frequent collaborator Tommy Makem. It was their third album and their final one for Tradition Records, the small label that the eldest Clancy brother Paddy Clancy ran. After this, the group recorded exclusively for Columbia Records until 1970. This was the first album for which they used the group name, The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem. Their prior recordings had simply listed their individual names on the cover.
Reception
In a specialized review of folk albums, D. K. Wilgus complimented the album for retaining a "ring of honesty" in authentically presenting Irish folk songs while suggesting that the record also strove too much to emphasize the "'felt beauty' or the meaning of the material." He singled out Liam Clancy's solo on "The Bold Tenant Farmer" for praise.[2]
After Liam Clancy died in 2009,
Track listing
All songs are traditional, except noted otherwise
Side one
- "Brennan on the Moor"
- "The Work of the Weavers"
- "The Stuttering Lovers"
- "Paddy Doyle's Boots"
- "The Maid of Fife-E-O"
- "The Bard of Armagh"
- "The Jug of Punch"
- "Roddy McCorley" (Ethna Carbery)
Side two
- "The Barnyards of Delgaty"
- "The Castle Of Dromore"
- "The Bold Tenant Farmer"
- "Ballinderry"
- "Bungle Rye"
- "Eileen Aroon"
- "Johnny I Hardly Knew You" (Joseph B. Geoghegan)
Personnel
- Paddy Clancy – vocals, harmonica
- Tom Clancy – vocals
- Liam Clancy – vocals, guitar
- Tommy Makem – vocals, tin whistle
- Bruce Langhorne – guitar
- Eric Darling – banjo[4]
References
- ^ "Specialty LPs: International". Billboard. Vol. 73, no. 20. 22 May 1961. pp. 28, 30.
- JSTOR 538192.
- ISSN 0140-0460.
- ^ "Self-titled "Tradition album": At the Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem".