Celtic Tides
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Brand: CelticEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1998-09-29
Music Label: Putumayo World Music
Soundtracks:
- Innis Aigh - The Chieftains, The Rankin Family
- Gabhar B?n - Clannad
- Feel So Near - Dougie MacLean
- Maid on the Shore - Solas
- Both Sides the Tweed - Mary Black
- Grian?n/Horse with a Heart - Altan
- Birkin Tree - Old Blind Dogs
- Caledonia - Dougie MacLean
- ? Hor? - Mary Jane Lamond
- Sleepy Maggie - Mary Jane Lamond, Ashley MacIsaac
- Catharsis - Natalie MacMaster
- Fear-Allabain - Capercaillie
- Weep Not for the Memories - Seamus Egan
Music reviews of Celtic Tides
Music Review: Could have been better
Rating: 3 Stars
I find this compilation somewhat disappointing. Many of the songs here are bland or boring, and few of them stay on the mind, even after listening to them several times. The big exception is Dougie McLean's "Caledonia": sure, it's a bit sentimental and shamelessly nationalistic, but it's a great song anyway. McLean's other cut here "Feel son Near", Clannad's folky "An Gabhar B?n" and Altan's instrumental "An Grian?n/Horse with a Heart" are good songs as well. As to the other songs, well, it's not that they are bad (though the awful rap "Sleepy Maggie" is), it's just that they fail to make an impression, even after listening to them several times. I have several Celtic music CDs, and they are all far better than this (even if they all include Pogues "Fairytale of New York"; thankfully this CD didn't).
Description of Celtic Tides
There are plenty of Celtic music compilations out there, but what makes Celtic Tides unusual is its sweeping inclusion of the obvious well-knowns: Clannad, the Chieftains, Altan, Capercaillie--even Scotland's Dougie MacLean and soloist Seamus Egan. In other words, this is a starter kit for sampling the most prominent creators of Celtic music, most of whom were celebrating the heritage before Celtic mania spread throughout the West in the mid-1990s. Certainly other collections feature more traditional, more acoustic Celtic music, but cuts like Old Blind Dogs' "The Birkin Tree" and Clannad's "An Gabhar B?n" satisfy that craving. Dougie Maclean's second cut, "Caledonia," is a smidge on the sentimental side, but this CD's variety is its strongest attraction, at once hushing with a soft lullaby from Mary Black to strutting the hip-hop beats of MacIsaac and Lamond's "Sleepy Maggie." For Celtic lovers already able to pull these artists' CDs from their shelves, this is a yawn; for those dipping toes into Irish Sea waters, a wee gift. --Karen KarleskiGeneral CDs
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