Electrifying fiddler Tommy Peoples made his first and only recorded appearance with The Bothy Band on 1975, the band’s debut album. Peoples propels the group through a brilliant selection of jigs, songs, and especially reels. As the late Frankie Kennedy of Altan remarked, “They played the tunes straightforwardly, but they had the fire in their bellies.”
That fire is nowhere more evident than on this album. Tracks: The Kesh Jig; Give Us A Drink Of Water; The Flower Of The Flock; Famous Ballymote / The Green Groves Of Erin; The Flowers Of Red Hill / Do You Love An Apple / Julia Delaney / Patsy Geary’s; Coleman’s Cross / Is Trua Nach Bhfuil Mé in Éirinn / The Navvy On The Line/The Rainy Day / The Tar Road To Sligo; Paddy Clancys / Martin Wynn’s; The Longford Tinker / Pretty Peg; Craig’s Pipes / Hector The Hero; The Laird Of Drumblaire / The Traveller; The Humours Of Lissadel / The Butterfly / The Salamanca; The Banshee; The Sailor’s Bonnet.
About Dónal Lunny, Matt Molloy, Mícheál Ó Domhnaill, Paddy Keenan, Tommy Peoples and Tríona Ní Dhomhnaill
