MICHO RUSSELL
Triskel Records, 1982, TRL 1009
Almost all the recordings made by Micho Russell are avalaible on CDs except for this one and another one I posted earlier.
This album is similar to the other ones with Micho introducing some of the tunes and playing them without any accompaniement. However he is joined on the eight first tracks on side A by a mandola player which was quite unnecessary to my opinion. That player is anonymous but I heard that he could be Frank Hogan who was known to play with another great name of Irish traditional music, the flute player Paddy Carty. Here the mandola is badly tuned and the backing doesn't suit Micho's flute playing. On the other tracks Micho plays his whistle with his fantastic style. He died in 1994 in a car accident and was one the finest exponents of the true traditional music practiced by farmers and inhabitants of small communities in North Clare. This album is very valuable for its little-known tunes like the Rising Sun or Tom Bawn. There is one song in Irish on B9.
For the connoisseurs and real lovers of Irish music.
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