Just what you’d expect from Johnny - new and old tunes played in his unique style: sensitive, artistic, elegant, delicate, precise, evocative and, above, inventive. And, at 18 tracks, there’s a lot of music there.
To take two ends of the scale (the old and the new), there’s two very common tunes on track 12 - "Banish Misfortune and Cliffs of Moher" - and Johnny has buffed them up to become the polished gems they should always be. You won’t hear them in quite the same way again.
Then there’s a great composition from Johnny’s son Conor - it could be mistaken for a Paddy Fahy tune - "Will This Winter Never End?"
Profits from the sale of the recording, as with Johnny’s first album "Solo Run", will be going to help the Clare Cancer Centre, a very worthy cause, so buy plenty of copies of this wonderful album for all your friends (see http://irishaccordeon.com).
David
Steele’s Rock
By Johnny McCarthy
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The Jug Of Punch
St Ruth’s Bush
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The Rolling Wave
Cara Mo Chroí (Friend Of My Heart)
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Poll Ha’penny
Hawk’s
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The Windy Gap
The Drunken Tinker
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An Buachaill Caol Dubh
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The Connacht Heifers
Jenny’s Welcome To Charlie
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Miss Crawford
The Girl That Broke My Heart
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Old Tipperary
The Gallowglass
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Will This Winter Never End?
Chief O’Neill
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Spailpín A Rúin
The Blackbird
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The Colliers
The Broken Pledge
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Banish Misfortune
Cliffs Of Moher
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Úr Chnoc Céin Mhic Cáinte
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Father Quinn’s
Port An Bhráthar
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Repeal Of The Union
Rolling In The Ryegrass
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Máirin De Barra
Steele’s Rock
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Molly Bán
College Groves
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Cailleach An Airgid
Young Tom Ennis
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