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Waiting For A Call

By Tommy Peoples


  1. John Blessing’s Delight
    Australian Waters
    Kit O’Mahony’s
  2. Waiting For A Call
    The Spike Island Lassies
  3. Ard Baithen
    The Mooncoin
    The King Of The Pipers
  4. The Bunch Of Green Rushes
    Carmel Mahoney Mulhaire
  5. The Monaghan
    The Ship In Full Sail
    The Blarney Pilgrim
  6. Miss Ramsay
    Launching The Boat
  7. The Wishing Well
    The King Of The Pipers
  8. The Frieze Breeches
    The Lark In The Morning
  9. The Colliers
    Bob McQuillen’s
    The Spike Island Lassies
  10. Dulaman Na Binne Bui
    Tommy Peoples’
    Jenny’s Wedding
  11. Hardiman The Fiddler
    Give Us A Drink Of Water
    Heels Over Head
  12. The Drunken Landlady
    The Fisherman’s Island
  13. King George IV
  14. Paidin O’Rafferty
    The Langstern Pony
  15. Drumnagarry
    Miss Crawford
  16. The Fairest Rose

Three comments

Waiting for a Call

The new album by a “living legend” of the Irish fiddle. It’s a great honor for me to post this recording.

Though I can’t describe how great his music is, several things must be noted here. Eleven of sixteen tracks were recorded around 1985 with Alec Finn (bouzouki), Sean Patt (pipes) and Donal Lunny (bodhran), but they seems to have slept in the Shanachie studio for long (probably “waiting for a call”). And finally five more tracks were recorded with John Doyle last year (2002) to complete the project. Why did it take so long?


Great! I can’t say any more.

Older and …

Normally people get better during the years, but I think Tommy’s playing is * much * better on the older recordings of this album. Timing and intonation are quite a few times a bit weak on the new tracks IMHO.