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The Singing Kettle

By Chulrua


  1. Hughie Travers
    John Byrth’s
    Boil The Breakfast Early
  2. Wellington’s Advance
    The Gander At The Pratie Hole
  3. Jimmy McGettrick’s
    The Master’s Return
  4. The Ballad Of Capel Street
  5. The Meeting Place
    The Wild Irishman
    The Ivy Leaf
  6. The Singing Kettle
    Gooseberry Fair
  7. Drowsy Maggie
    The Steeplechase
  8. Asha, Asha
  9. The Drunken Sailor
    The Gatehouse Maid
  10. Tommy Coen’s
    Coen’s
  11. The Kerfunten
    Gallant Tipperary
  12. Ashfields In Brine
  13. Eddie Moloney’s
    Roll Her On The Mountain
  14. Scully Casey’s
    The Rookery
    The Yellow Wattle
  15. The Golden Wedding
    Paddy Murphy’s Wife
  16. Bridget Flynn
  17. Jimmy McGettrick’s
    The Morning Dew

Four comments

Hot off the presses, so hot in fact that it doesn’t yet appear to be available from any online source. So, unless you happen to know any of the musicians in the group, be patient. It’s well worth it.

Chulrua (cool-ROO-ah) is Pat Egan (guitar, vocals), Paddy O’Brien (button accordion), and Patrick Ourceau (fiddle). This is the group’s 3rd CD, but the first featuring somewhat new member Patrick Ourceau.

This recording features a nice mix of traditional reels, jigs, and hornpipes. Although the songs are more recently composed (two by Mick Fitzgerald, one by Archie Fisher), they may as well be traditional. There’s nothing flashy or overproduced about the CD. Just wonderful traditional music from three masterful musicians. All three have a wonderful sense for the music and present not-so-well-known settings and arrangements of tunes that you may otherwise think are common tunes. Definitely worth adding to your collection.

Available (soon presumably) through Shanachie at http://www.shanachie.com or through the band’s website at http://www.chulrua.com.

The Singing Kettle

Paddy O’Brien, button accordion
Patrick Ourceau, fiddle
Pat Egan, guitar and vocals

Track 7 tune 1

is a marvelous, if slightly unusual, version of “The Reel with the Birl”, rather than just another of “Drowsy Maggie”. I have changed the tune link to show this. Great album!