FINBARR DWYER
Ireland's champion traditional accordionist
Outlet, 1977, SOLP 1032
F. Dwyer (1946-2014) was part of a family of musicians from Cork. He was known also as a good and prolific composer along with his brother Richard who played the box also. Most of the time musicians who won some competition were sought after by big companies. This is not his first album. His style is the style which dominated Irish box playing at that time and reminds me of Joe Burke and others.
Outlet was a Belfast-based label, now disappeared, and was notorious enough for its poorly recorded LPs.
It is the case here; first the piano well played by Teresa MacMahon is almost totally inaudible and seems at times out of place because of the reverberation; second there is some light wow due maybe to a poor moulding. Items of the Outlet catalogue are available on CDs but not this album according to http://www.irishmusicreview.com.
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