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Friday, July 15, 2022

PLANXTY - Live in Dublin 1980 - Jeremiah at The Voodoo Wagon

 

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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