Mick Moloney - Far From the Shamrock Shore: The Irish-American Experience in Song
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Artist: Mick MoloneyEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
CD Release Date: 2002-02-12
Music Label: Shanachie
Soundtracks:
- The Boatman's Dance
- Pat Murphy Of The Irish Brigade
- Skibereen
- The Irish Volunteers
- Erin's Green Shore
- Green Grows The Laurel
- You Lovers All
- When The Breaker Starts Up Full Time
- No Irish Need Apply
- My Uncle Dan McCann
- Paddy On The Railway
- The Mulligan Guard
- Maloney The Rolling Mill Man
- Clancy's Wooden Wedding
- The Kellys
- Sweet King Williamstown
- Daisy Bell
Music reviews of Far From the Shamrock Shore: The Irish-American Experience in Song
Music Review: passion, humor, tragedy, and music to match
Rating: 5 Stars
Far from the Shamrock Shore is an ambitious, expertly executed treatment of the mostly forgotten tradition of Irish-American song. The accents here are as much American as Irish, and so are the musical settings, which owe more to 19th-Century string bands than to Celtic flute-and-pipe orchestras. No one, in other words, will confuse what he or she hears with an Altan or Chieftains recording. Instead, Celtic-revival pioneer and folklorist Mick Moloney highlights the varieties of music sung and performed by a people finding their way in a New World; though they have not forgotten where they came from, the old country is receding into fond memory and sentimental mist.The result is a wide-ranging selection of period folk ballads and popular songs. In those days, Moloney shows, these two genres often overlapped, and they freely plundered each other's lyrics and melodies. Though written by Dan Emmett (the Northern minstrel-show composer best known for "Dixie"), the terrific "Boatman's Dance" sounds as authentic a riverman's song as "Rock About My Saro Jane." Moloney, in fact, speculates that Emmett may have based "Dance" on a forgotten Ohio River song sung by African-American boatmen.
More representative of a purer, older Irish tradition are "Green Grows the Laurel," "Paddy Works on the Railway" (done in a variant you probably have not heard before), "You Lovers All," and "Erin's Green Shore." Several powerful Civil War-era songs -- including the irresistible patriotic rouser and barroom bellow "The Irish Volunteer" -- attest to the significant role newly arrived Irish immigrants played in that great and bloody conflict.
This is a splendid recording, an excursion into history full of the passion, humor, hard times, and wonderful music of those who lived it and made it.
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