Planxty - Live in Dublin 1980 - Voodoo Wagon
a fine recording of a fine band and featuring three legends in Irish folk music in their own right (well they all are really) with Andy Irvine (check out his solo work and with Paul Brady too) Donal Lunny (who deserves more attention outside his homeland) and the legend that is Christy Moore an uncompromising radical and honey voiced master of Irish music in all its forms
Planxty
Olympia Theatre
Dublin Ireland
1980-08-18/23
Soundboard @320
01. Plains of Kildare
02. Emigrant's Farewell
03. Chattering Magpie---Lord McDonald
04. As I Roved Out
05. Nancy Spain
06. The Gold Ring
07. The Jolly Beggerman
08. Set of Reels
09. Kellswater
10. John O'Dreams
11. Tierney's---Out On the Ocean---Pay the Reckoning
12. Johnny Cope
13. I Pity the Poor Immigrant
14. The Irish March
15. Smeceno Horo
16. No Time for Love
17. West Coast of Clare
18. Good Ship Kangaroo
19. Timedance (The Humours of Barrack Street-Isercleran-Ballymun Regatta) (Bonus Track)
Christy Moore - Acoustic Guitar, Bodhrán, Vocals
Donal Lunny - Bouzouki, Guitar, Bodhrán, Keyboards
Liam O'Flynn - Uilleann Pipes, Tin Whistle
Andy Irvine - Mandolin, Mandola, Bouzouki, Hurdy-Gurdy, Harmonica, Vocals
Bill Whelan - Keyboards
Nollaig Casey (Nollaig Ni Cathasaigh) - Fiddle
Check out Mr Moore's fine introduction to the band here from the same year as this set and you can tell he has been blessed with what we might call a touch of the Blarney (from the kissing of the Blarney Stone) and gift it is!
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