Celtic mando albums 2005

[Dagger Gordon]

What did we get in 2005, then?

All I can think of are Shooglenifty's live album and The Funky String Band (both featuring Luke Plumb) and David Surette's 'Northern Roots'.

I guess 'The Glass Slipper' has slipped into 2006, but there must be some other stuff.

[billy parker]

Speaking of the Glass Slipper, any news on progress other than what was posted on 12-6-05?
Happy Holidays

[mad dawg]

Was Simon Bradley's and Luke Plumb's Wintering Out released this year or last?

[jmcgann]

Hardly a mando album, but I played a solo mando track on "The Boston Edge" w/ Joe Derrane and Seamus Connolly. I also played backup on mando on one track.

In the spring, the same lable (Mapleshade) will release "The Man Behind The Box" duo with myself and Joe Derrane. There's two mando solo tracks on that one...

[SternART]

jmcgann.........I dig the sound they get at Mapleshade. Did you go to the Mansion to record?
It is a tweaky audiophile label, known for simple by unusual recording techniques, like standing
around a few mics with an acrylic deflector.....Tony Williamson did a CD there, nice natural sound
on it. Mostly a jazz label, but it seems they are diversifying the kinds of music they put out.

[jmcgann]

Thanks Art- yep, but the Mansion looks a lot nicer airbrushed on the website- it was pretty funky, and they have moved onto a new locale somewhere in MD. A pair of PZM mics hardwired to a 15 IPS hotrodded Sony reel to reel, live to 2 track with no compression, reverb or ANYTHING- totally what you hear is what you get as played.

Tony's stuff sounds great!

[Perry]

This one just missed the cut for 2005 and it is not exclusively Celtic but it's one of my favorite mando-ish albums released over the last year or so:

http://www.mandolincafe.com/news/publish/mandolins_0095.shtml

[craigtoo]

There was at least one mando set on "House to House" with Roger Landes and Randal Bays. And some nice Zouk work.....

[jmcgann]

Thumbs up on the Sam Bartlett CD!

[Mandobar]

david surette has a new album out. good stuff!

[epicentre]

Checked out the music on House to House and promptly ordered a CD. Sounds like it should be good. Unfortunately, my credit card was messed with, had to cancel, new one in a week; hopefully their shipping will be late and can insert the newbie. http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/rock.gif

Don't have a cent invested in the following but if you would like to hear some celtic with some heart, check out "Hearts Content" and "James Connolly" on EZFolk.com.; not too much mandolin but great stuff. Go to "musicians A-Z and keep looking.....sorted by first name.

Has anyone played a Fylde Lucetta? They are supposed to have a wider fret board than the normal mando. Have to do something at some point in time or change the nickname from Epi to "Hamfist".....dang!!

If anyone knows where I could get mandolin tabs for "Carrickfergus" I would appreciate the info.

With thanks;
Epi



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[Martin Jonas]

Despite its name, Skip Gorman's "Mandolin In The Cow Camp" (discussed here (http://www.mandolincafe.net/cgi-bin/ikonboard.cgi?act=ST;f=18;t=29979)) could just as well be called a Celtic album. A good third of the tunes are directly from the Scottish or Irish tradition, and many of the more obviously American ones have identifiably Scottish or Irish origins. As there are nearly 80 tunes on that album, that's enough for a decent Scottish album.

I've spent a bit of this afternoon learning to play Skip's lovely versions of the Scottish laments "Morag of Dunvagen" and "James Moray of Abernathy" (actually Neil Gow's "Lamentation for James Moray of Abercairney"), and had great fun with those. Both of them closely follow the transcriptions on Nigel Gatherer's site, so it wasn't too difficult to figure out what Skip was playing.

I really, really like the fact that Skip doesn't follow the high-speed heavy ornaments style of Irish and Scottish session playing. Keeping things simple and lettign the tunes breathe is so much more rewarding in the end.

Martin

[whistler]

Somebody gave me a copy of an album by a player from Galway, John Colfer. The title is 'Swinging on a Gate'. His playing is very individual in style, but very strongly rooted in the tradition, with no pretentions of virtuosity. Whislt the mandolin is not particualrly popular as a main instrument in Irish music, there are plenty of players, some of them better known as tenor banjo or fiddle players, that *should* put recordings out. Eddie Moloney from Quinn, E.Clare, is one. Mick (Banjo)O'Connor, Brian Kelly, Kieran Hanrahan and Mick Moloney are all as accomplished on mandolin as they are on banjo. The latter two, at least, have made recordings with mandolin. Sean Casey, son of Bobby Casey, is best known as a fiddler, playing in Sessions around London, but he has an all Ireland title on mandolin. Even though he has hardly touched a mandolin for 15 or 20 years, on the odd occasion I have heard him play one, he has blown me away. There is one recording, 'Casey in the Cowhouse', featuring Sean as a teenager, on mandolin, accompanying his father. It was deleted long ago, and I have yet to hear it, by by all accounts, it is well worth seeking out.