Music CD - The Chieftains: The Essential Chieftains

	Music CD: The Essential Chieftains Artist: The Chieftains List Price: $24.98 Our Price: $10.71 Your Save: $ 14.27 ( 57% ) Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Manufacturer: RCA
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Tracks: 1. Lots Of Drops Of Brandy 2. The Green Fields of America 3. Santiago de Cuba 4. The Donegal Set; Willy's Single\ King of the Pipers\ The Glen Road to Carrick 5. Jabadaw 6. The Bells of Dublin/Christmas Eve 7. The French March 8. The Stone 9. The Munster Cloak/Tabhair Dom Do Lamh (Give Me Your Hand); The Munster Cloak\ Tabhair Dom Do Lamh (Give Me Your Hand) 10. Chasing The Fox
Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0828767539829 Format: Original recording remastered Label: RCA Manufacturer: RCA Number Of Discs: 2 Publisher: RCA Release Date: 2006-02-21 Studio: RCA
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Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: The EssentialChieftains Comment: Nice collection of this groups music I have been looking for and wanted for many years. I would recommend this disc for fans of this group Customer Rating: Summary: The Essential Chieftains & The irish Rovers Comment: I would just like to say i found the CD of high class perfomerance as i've be a great fan of the Chieftains for a long time i have got nearly all there LP & i used to go to all there concerts in Melbourne Australia please keep up your good Work Thank You very much Amazon your Truley V A Hillier Customer Rating: Summary: Incomparable Comment: In the words of Nanci Griffith, soloist on the incomparable 'Red Is The Rose': 'Thank you, Chieftains!' Customer Rating: Summary: Essentially Excellent Comment: This 2 CD set has great variety and is packed with great songs and performers. The traditional Chieftan style permeates the album but the variety of guest artists and wide range of songs makes this one of our most played CD's. Customer Rating: Summary: A good collection--but not entirely my definition of essential Comment: They've got a lot of the country roots in this collection in addition to a lot of their early work, but I'm particularly missing "Morning has Broken" with Art Garfunkel, "Rocky Road to Dublin" and the multinational chart hit, "Sake in the Jar." Still this is a very worthwhile collection particularly if you don't have some of the Nashville Chieftains CDs. More Reviews
Editorial Reviews: More than 40 years on, the Chieftains are still the world's nonpareil Irish acoustic instrumental outfit. While celebrated for the international dissemination of their national mother lode they have actually promoted music from all six Celtic Nations; beginning with Ireland (Eire) but also honoring ancient folkways from Scotland (Alba), the Isle of Mann (Ellan Vannin), Brittany (Breizh), Wales (Cymru), and Cornwall (Kernow.) Furthermore, they have sought out musicians from other Celtic enclaves, such as Galicia (Northern Spain,) Cape Breton Island (Nova Scotia -- one of North America's few Gaelic-speaking regions) and the Southern U.S., where haunting modal tunes imported by mountain-dwelling Scots-Irish immigrants provided the essence of old-timey country and bluegrass music. There have also been pop-star collaborations and a myriad of concept, live-in-concert and tribute albums. The set includes excerpts from the thoroughly traditional "numbered" albums that made the group's reputation but also covers their pan-Celtic explorations, duets with stars of other genres, including Bela Fleck, Nanci Griffith, Linda Ronstadt and Los Lobos, plus encounters with notable Irish performers like Sinéad O'Connor, Van Morrison, and The Corrs. It is obviously impossible to encapsulate such a long and varied career, even over the length of two generously-filled disks, but this well-picked program gives an accurate picture of the band's astonishing scope and virtuosity. --Christina Roden