Each musician is so brilliant and all of them are really working together. No one is showboating in any way. Everyone playing for the greater good. And what a sound....
One evening, over 40 years ago, Michael,the guitar player from the Bothy Band, showed up at my buddies place, on the coast, with a jug of Hungarian wine, and his guitar, and the three of us drank wine, played and sung tunes, until about 3 in the morning, and one of those nights that rarely happen in a lifetime. RIPMichael
The Bothy Band's third album, from which this set starts off with, was my introduction to Paddy Keenan's wild style of playing. The tunes are: the morning star, the fisherman's lilt, and the drunken landlady. The fisherman's lilt appears twice, first in the key of C, and to finish off, in the key of D. Their 3rd album, Out of the wind into the sun, is still my favourite album till this day. But the rest of their recordings are also magnificent! They certainly left their mark on irish music, that's for sure!! Brilliant, just brilliant!!
I've heard a lot of Irish music, but these guys remind me of a 100 wild horses racing over the plains with their names flailing in the wind. I've been listening to them since I found a CD of theirs in 1987. Their sound is so powerful. They are like an Irish music rock band if such a thing can exist.
I know and love the Chieftains, early Clannad, Planxty and other bands that did the revival of Irish folk in the Seventies, but the sound of these guys is unparalleled, I agree with you. It's like the charge of the Rohirrim in front of Minas Tirith: an unstoppable might.
Many a great night spent at the Merryman in Scarriff listening to the Bothy Band. Session usually went on late in to the night with guest appearances from Dr. Bill Loughnane. Great memories, great musicians.
Michael is still with us forever!!!!I I´m plaiyng his parts and i feel very honoured. I´m from ARgentina. Long live the bothies!!!! my band is calles DOLAVON!
@@KelticTim For one, there is quite a sizeable German expat community in Argentinia, for another, why not play beautiful music regardeless where you're from. I am from Germany and started playing the Uilleann Pipes the year this was recorded.
@@michaelstaadt8012 gee, I wonder why I would question highlighting anything German coming out of Argentina? I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt, are you aware of how those Germans got there? It’s not cause they like the food. Anything and everything German coming out of Argentina should be spoke of in very, very hushed tones, probably better to not acknowledge it at all.
@@KelticTim I am quite aware of that ( how could I not, I'm German) but the misconception that emigration of Germans to Argentinia happened only after WW II is common but nontheless wrong. Actually it started in the 1850's with it's peak in the 1870's. Around 1936 there was an influx of Germans into Argentinia, who fled from Nazi Germany and a community of around 40.000 German Jews. One learns every day, doesn't one.
@@michaelstaadt8012 given the relationship Hitler had with the Argentinian govt, why would Germans flee Hitler, and the call home to fight, to a place that Hitler could reach out and punish them for it? I’m not saying you’re wrong or misinformed, I’m just curious to the logic of that. There’s no chance, imo, knowing what we know about Hitler and how he treated those he felt were disloyal to Germany, that he would allow them to live there without punishing them, and the Argentinian govt would’ve only been happy to help. Especially the Jewish Germans. It just doesn’t make sense. Why wouldn’t they flee to America or Canada?
Muck Connell, you have immaculately created the best playlist of all time. I never would have heard half of the best music if I'd stuck to my records, tapes, CDs..I'm such a backwards old fogey that I didn't get the magic of RU-vid until I randomly found you. You basically have saved a person's life and that person is boundlessly grateful. Whoever you are, I salute ❤
Paddy Keenan is god, and in this video and others of the 70s is like Michael Myers playing pipes. The possessed piper. I really admire the bothy band, especially to Mr. Keenan and Mr. Molloy, someday me and my soul will visit Ireland. Thanks for the video.
The Morning Star, The Fisherman's Lilt and The Drunken Landlady. the first track on the "out of the wind into the sun" album. great track and great vid. thnx for sharing.
WOW! I was familiar with Matt Molloy from listening to the Chieftains;I hadn'd heard anything from The Bothy Band-now I see(hear!) what I was missing,Thank you for sharing this,it's fantastic!
True for you, there were quite a lot of good groups in the 60s/70s, i.e. De Dannan, Clannad (still going) Planxty, The Bothy band, Stocktons Wings,Altan to name but a few and of course The Chieftains thankfully still going.
Joe Cooley was my fiddle teacher's mentor and teacher! Nice to see him mentioned. Cáit Reed was arguably the best Irish fiddler in America. She had the "nyah", the pure drop. She was a brilliant inprovisationist. She was my closest, most dear, best friend. We talked nearly every day for 23 years. For hours. She died in the arms of myself, her husband, and her daughter. She never released an album because she played for the love of playing only. She played with the Grateful Dead, the Chieftans, so so many people. She's playing in the Irish band in the pub scene in that Harrison Ford movie... seeing Joe Cooley mentioned is a balm to my soul. Did you know him?
Holy Cr*p ! ... weren't the 'Bothies' just the absolute dog's danglies, of all the various incarnations of a fairly small group of fine irish musicians... De Dannan & Planxty were great, but the Bothy Band had something else ! Wicked !
I wish I had know of this music 31 years ago...I would be a much better uilleann piper for sure. I've heard the tunes a thousand times but to see them in action 31 years ago is astonishing.....so fluent and effortless....AMAZING!
Easy lad, like the accents in Ireland, there’s so many diff styles of Celtic music that saying it as you did could lead to a quick fight. For instance, I prefer Irish folk music, particularly the songs of rebellion and anti English/Protestant persuasion, this song is more traditional Celt and does absolutely nothing for me. It’s something you’d hear playing in the mall on St Patrick’s day. These are just some talented hippies playing music with no soul. Gimme Johnson’s Motor Car or The Beggarman over this every day and twice on Sunday. These hippies can’t hold The Dubliners or The Clancy Brothers guitar picks. Celtic isn’t Irish, Celtic can cover music styles from Norway to France to Scotland. (That little lesson isn’t necessarily for you, but for the others who may read this exchange). See what I mean? A quick fight. Of course you may have been saying Celtic for the uneducated and you were already aware of all this, in which case apologies.
@egilssaga1 They're not "like bagpipes", they ARE bagpipes. Not the Great Highland Bagpipe, but bagpipes nonetheless. Just like the spanish Gaita, the italian Zampogna, the swedish säckpipa, the mainland european dudelsack and their various other variants. They're all bagpipes. They have a pipe or two or seven or whatever, and they have a bag which supplies the air for the pipes. They're bagpipes.
I am discovering these tracks again and filled with joy and admiration for these talented and godly musicians. Could some one tell me is playing on the pipes in this recording.I adore lunny and molloy and have followed their paths but dont recognise the pipe player. Thanks for posting
@Qwerti60 oh i see its better than irish music which is why its so popular i think i will go into town tonight and have a beer. Now will i go to molly o'gradys irish pub and listen to some traditional irish music or maybe i can go to my local klezmer bar and listen to bucky goldstien the jewish cowboy play klezmer i bet my uncircumcised foreskin i wont find any klezmer
I think there's some truth in that; the Bothies will be making aspiring folkies feel inadequate for the rest of time! Mind you, this embarrassment of riches did give us Out of the Wind into the Sun, so they're forgiven. ;)
I saw the Bothy Band at Lancaster University in 1977 and can tell you why the audience is mummified during the music. Even if you tapped a foot with the (infectious) music, a bearded, anally retentive purist, or her boyfriend, silenced you pdq! These concerts were apparently policed by them. The original fun police; so unIrish. Amazing music appreciated by tossers - it was a shame. Interesting to see the memory isn't wrong though
I´m from Argentine but I live in Spain (in fact this´s important ´cause we don´t have this kind of music). From me, this music is like home, this music make my soul fly.
The second and the fourth tune are both the "Fisherman's lilt", not the Sailor's bonnet. These two are obviously related, and the Bothies play the fishermans lilt in the same unusual way as the sailors bonnet (second part repeated, first part single), but there are several phrases that show that this is not the same reel. The A part starts similar but then goes in another phrase which doesn't feature the off-beat-f#-rolls.
all fabulous musicians...wonderful arrangements....flute, pipes and fiddle from matt, paddy and kevin couldn`t have better support than from donal, michael and triona on bouzouki, guitar and clavinet, repectively.
I know Irish tunes are usually known to have more than one name, but isn't the second tune The Sailor's Bonnet, then goes into Fisherman's Lilt? Sounds like there's 4 tunes to me, and not three ...
Michael domhaill look ays gutair passed away years ago yes buured in Saint comchils cemetery kells county Meath Ireland Was at funeral alatan played at grave
can someone tell me who is playing on this piece as not being an expert, i thought i notices donnal lunny from planxty and the flautist from the chieftans
