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It's hard to qualify what "best of" could mean in the case of a band as prolific as Altan. This was a record label collection (the best of the Green Linnet years) and it is just that from Frankie Kennedy's slow reel, "The Sunset," through the jigs, reels and airs that they play so well. Mairead Ni Mhaoinaigh on fiddle also supplies their trademark voice, Ciaran Tourish and Paul O'Shaughnessy are on fiddles as well, Frankie Kennedy is on flute plus various instruments by Ciaran Curran, Mark Kelly and Daithi Sproule. As a bonus there is a second CD, a live recording taken from the soundboard of a 1989 concert.
Track listing:
CD: 1
1. Tommy Peoples/The Windmill/Fintan McManus's
2. Moll Dubh A'ghleanna
3. Jimmy Lyon's/The Teelin/The Red Crow/The Broken Bridge
4. Sunset
5. Glory Reel/The Heathery Cruach
6. Flower of Magherally
7. Mazurka
8. Bhean Udaí Thall
9. King of the Pipers
10. 'SF Do Mhaimeo I
11. Jug of Punch
12. Emyvale/Ríl Gan Ainm/The Three Merry Sisters of Fate
13. Mhaighdean Mhara
14. Dúlamán
15. Drowsy Maggie/Rakish Paddy/Harvest Storm
16. Feochán
CD: 2
1. Con Cassidy's/Neil Gow's Highland/Moll and Tiarna/McSweeney's [Livel]
2. Yellow Tinker/Lady Montgomery [Live]
3. Thug Mé Rúide
4. Tá Mo Chleamhnas a Dhéanamh [Live]
5. Curlew/McDermott's/Three Scones of Boxty/Unnamed Reel [Live]
6. Tuirse Mo Chroí
7. Paddy's Trip to Scotland/Dinky's/The Shetland Fiddler [Live]
8. Johnny's Wedding/Rogue's Reel/The Gravel Walk [Live]
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