The Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem*

ARTIST: Paddy, Tom, & Liam Clancy, Tommy Makem

Liam Clancy - Guitar, Vocals
Tommy Makem - Pennywhistle, Vocals
Paddy Clancy - Vocals
Tom Clancy - Vocals
Erik Darling - Banjo
Bruce Langhorne - Guitar, Vocals
David Hancock - Recorder

OTHERS:

Patrick Clancy - Editing, Original Recording Producer
Laurie Flannery - Mastering
Steven Jurgensmeyer - Design
James J. Kreigsmann - Cover Photo
Robert Vosgien - Digital Mastering

* Note that this album has been released under various titles by several different record companies.

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Reviews:

March 19, 1997

While The Clancy Brothers might appear to many as the stereotypical "Irish folk group" with their wooly sweaters and their formal, ensemble singing, nevertheless, they were a major influence on the re-emergence of traditional music during the middle part of this century. This 1961 recording finds them in New York, joined by Tommy Makem and introducing to a new generation many of the songs that would become staples of such later revivalists as Christy Moore, Donal Lunny and bands like Planxty and the Bothy Band. Here are Makem and the Clancy's original, definitive, versions of songs such as "The Jug of Punch," "The Castle of Dronmore," "The Bold Tenant Farmer," and "The Maid of Fife-E-O" (covered by everyone from Joan Baez to the Grateful Dead as "Pretty Peggy-O"). What may be surprising to some is the passion and gusto that the group brings to the songs. Though they may have also inspired generations of green-beer soaked imitators, none could touch the original innovators.

-- Lahri Bond (Easthampton, MA)

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