- Audio CD
- Number of Discs: 1
- Format: Import
- Label: Mulli
- ASIN: B000027XL1
- Other Editions: Audio CD | Audio Cassette
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 97,222 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
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Electrifying fiddler Tommy Peoples made his first and only recorded appearance with The Bothy Band on 1975, the band’s debut album. Peoples propels the group through a brilliant selection of jigs, songs, and especially reels. As the late Frankie Kennedy of Altan remarked, “They played the tunes straightforwardly, but they had the fire in their bellies.” That fire is nowhere more evident than on this album. Tracks: The Kesh Jig; Give Us A Drink Of Water; The Flower Of The Flock; Famous Ballymote / The Green Groves Of Erin; The Flowers Of Red Hill / Do You Love An Apple / Julia Delaney / Patsy Geary’s; Coleman’s Cross / Is Trua Nach Bhfuil Mé in Éirinn / The Navvy On The Line/The Rainy Day / The Tar Road To Sligo; Paddy Clancy’s / Martin Wynn’s; The Longford Tinker / Pretty Peg; Craig’s Pipes / Hector The Hero; The Laird Of Drumblaire / The Traveller; The Humours Of Lissadel / The Butterfly / The Salamanca; The Banshee; The Sailor’s Bonnet.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
If you are reading this, you most probably are aware of what to expect. I got this on vinyl (on the Mulligan label I believe) around 1976/7, and it just knocked me sideways.
From the outset (the intro to "The Kesh jig"), the Bothy Band just come out like bare knuckle fighters, hardly stopping to take breath, the changes of tunes and tempo; swaying and ducking and diving, and delivering knock out music all the way through. Each member, and you most probably know who they are, deliver a raw energetic, turbo charged, enthusiastic, and often copied but never bettered style of traditional Irish music. All of the Bothy Band recordings are superb, but I think that this, their first, for me at least, has the most dynamics.
(Also worth a very good mention is a new group called "The Bonny Men". I would stick my neck out and say that I think they come a very close second to taking up where the Bothy Band left off. Check them out.)
From the outset (the intro to "The Kesh jig"), the Bothy Band just come out like bare knuckle fighters, hardly stopping to take breath, the changes of tunes and tempo; swaying and ducking and diving, and delivering knock out music all the way through. Each member, and you most probably know who they are, deliver a raw energetic, turbo charged, enthusiastic, and often copied but never bettered style of traditional Irish music. All of the Bothy Band recordings are superb, but I think that this, their first, for me at least, has the most dynamics.
(Also worth a very good mention is a new group called "The Bonny Men". I would stick my neck out and say that I think they come a very close second to taking up where the Bothy Band left off. Check them out.)
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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful
Among the Very Best of the Celtic Millennium
18 Dec 1999
Format:Audio CD
If the Bothy band ever announces a reunion gig in Ireland, I'll be on the fastest plane over there. Like the Beatles, they didn't have many years together, but what years they were, and what an influence they had! Their music became the benchmark for anything "celtic" that came after it. You simply can't own a collection of Irish music without including the Bothy Band.
I still remember hearing their first album for the first time back in 1977. I envy any of you the sense of exhileration you feel when you discover something real. You won't look back.
24 of 27 people found the following review helpful
Bothies vs. Planxty vs. Altan
14 Oct 2001
Format:Audio CD
To amplify a bit on the two reviews that clashed a bit:
It's important to remember that the Bothies and Planxty were pioneers at the time. They each added to the tradition in different ways. The Bothy Band added a drive and percussive sound that has come to be identified with Irish traditional music -- indeed, many people who only know the more modern bands and artists such as Lunasa and Altan are almost shocked to hear the pure-drop stuff now, as it generally has no accompaniment like guitars or bodhrans or basses or such. Each were pioneers in the 70's and changed much about the face of traditional Irish music.
Altan, now, is a wonderful band. Paddy Keenan said (in a Irish Music Magazine interview in Sept. 2000) that it's groups like Altan and Dervish that are now holding open the door, "opening the gateways, bringing the music to new audiences and putting their own mark on it, which is the way the tradition should evolve."
Irish traditional musicians and fans Who Know still revere and love The Bothy Band. Without The Bothies and Planxty, groups like Altan and Dervish arguably could not exist.
13 of 14 people found the following review helpful
One of the classics
21 May 1998
Format:Audio CD
The Bothy Band lasted only a few years in the mid-1970's, but its influence on contemporary Irish music is indelible. Its personnel went on to distinguished careers: the O Domhnaill brother-and-sister team anchored the groups Relativity and Nightnoise, Tommy Peoples (who appeared with the Bothies on this album only) made a number of solo and duo recordings, Kevin Burke (who succeeded him) has recorded with several groups including his own Patrick Street, and Matt Molloy joined the Chieftains. This recording captures a group of outstanding musicians just coming into their own individually, and the combination is electric. As the late Frankie Kennedy of Altan remarked, they played the tunes straightforwardly, but "they had the fire in their bellies" ... and it's nowhere more evident than on this album.
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