Good traditional irish cd?

Question

In the wake of St. Patricks Day I realized that I do not really have any good irish music. Now I don't want those cd you get from wal mart or those card stores, but can anyone recommend to me a good irish cd with traditional sound. I have been searching somewhat for a CD and see artists like the Dubliners, or Clancy Bros. Are they any good? Please recommend something for me. thanks

Answer 1

There's this CD called Blásta,not really sure if it's still around but it's got a mix of jigs,reels,hornpipes aswell as ballads. It's got instrumental aswell as vocal too so it's a really good mix of trad music...but i'm sure if you get any compilation CD you'll find that!

Answer 2

The Pogues !!

Brillaint Cd !!

Answer 3

the dubliners for sure... it doesnt come any more st.patricks than that!

Answer 4

I don't know if they sell this cd in the u.s. but its called Jigs & Reels.  my mom and i bought it in the shannon airport when we were in ireland.  it is traditional irish music.

Answer 5

Instrumental:

John Williams - Steam (warning - it's accordion)

Anything by

Kevin Crawford

Paddy Keenan

Paddy Glacken

Lunasa

The Tea Merchants - a bit of funk mixed in there

The Mulcahy Family

w/ songs:

De Dannan - How the west was won

Solas, try Reunion - some of their CDs are far better than others - I'd go with Reunion or the self titles Solas

Altan

The Fuschia Band

Cherish the Ladies

The Chieftains

Mary Black

Dolores Keane

I can't remember if there are songs on these or not:

Teada

Flook

Beoga

these are all new bands with exciting young players - like 25 yr olds - but they're fantastic!

Check out www.greenlinnet.com (I think) That's a great record label for Irish music

There's so much good Irish music out there - I'm glad you don't want to go to WalMart...good call!