Irish Phonograph

 

THE IRISH PHONOGRAPH VOLUME 1

Irish Traditional Music from EMI 78s

RTE EMI, 1986, GAE 1003

This LP was published to mark the 50th anniversary of EMI's in Dublin in 1936. The notes written by Nicholas Carolan head of the Irish Traditional Music Archive are quite detailed about that record company'role in Ireland. The selection here is quite large with some examples of ''popular'' music with the Dublin Metropolitan Garda Ceili Band or the button accordion player Terry Lane but most of the tracks feature traditional musicians like Neil O'Boyle, Leo Rowsome or Sean Maguire. There are also small formations such as the Lough Gill Quartet, the excellent Gardiner's Sligo Traditional Trio and ceili bands like the Tulla C.B. or the Austin Stack C.B.  All the names of the musicians are in the sleeve notes. The recordings were made between 1937 and 1956. It seems that volume 2 never existed as far as I know.

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