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The Essential Chieftains
The Essential Chieftains
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Artist: The Chieftains
Label: RCA
Category: Music

List Price: $24.98  (€19.73)
Buy New: $6.74  (€5.32)
You Save: $18.24  (€14.41) (73%)
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Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars(7 reviews)
Sales Rank: 52536

Format: Original Recording Remastered
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5

MPN: 75398
UPC: 828767539829
EAN: 0828767539829
ASIN: B000E6EJ34

Release Date: February 21, 2006
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days

Tracks:

  Disc 1
  • Lots Of Drops Of Brandy
  • The Green Fields of America
  • Santiago de Cuba
  • The Donegal Set; Willy's Single\ King of the Pipers\ The Glen Road to Carrick
  • Jabadaw
  • The Bells of Dublin/Christmas Eve
  • The French March
  • The Stone
  • The Munster Cloak/Tabhair Dom Do Lamh (Give Me Your Hand); The Munster Cloak\ Tabhair Dom Do Lamh (Give Me Your Hand)
  • Chasing The Fox

  Disc 2
  • I Know My Love
  • Shenandoah
  • Country Blues
  • Medley; Ladies Pantalettes\ Belles of Blackville\ First House in Connaught (Reels)
  • The Foggy Dew
  • Red is the Rose
  • The Squid Jiggin' Ground / Larry O'Gaff; The Squid Jiggin' Ground\ Larry O'Gaff
  • Lambs in the Greenfields
  • Guadalupe
  • Mo Ghile Mear ("Our Hero")
  • Cotton-Eyed Joe
  • Molly Ban (Bawn)
  • Long Journey Home
  • Love Is Teasin'
  • The Rebel Jesus
  • Il Est Ne / Ca Berger; Il Est Ne\ Ca Berger
  • Jimmy Mo Mhile Stor

Similar Items:

  • The Best of the Chieftains
  • The Bells of Dublin
  • Water From the Well
  • The Wide World Over: A 40 Year Celebration
  • Long Black Veil

Editorial Reviews:

Album Description
Import only 37-track collection, part of Sony/BMG's 'Essential' line.

Amazon.com
More than 40 years on, the Chieftains are still the world's nonpareil Irish acoustic instrumental outfit. While celebrated for the international dissemination of their national mother lode they have actually promoted music from all six Celtic Nations; beginning with Ireland (Eire) but also honoring ancient folkways from Scotland (Alba), the Isle of Mann (Ellan Vannin), Brittany (Breizh), Wales (Cymru), and Cornwall (Kernow.) Furthermore, they have sought out musicians from other Celtic enclaves, such as Galicia (Northern Spain,) Cape Breton Island (Nova Scotia -- one of North America's few Gaelic-speaking regions) and the Southern U.S., where haunting modal tunes imported by mountain-dwelling Scots-Irish immigrants provided the essence of old-timey country and bluegrass music. There have also been pop-star collaborations and a myriad of concept, live-in-concert and tribute albums. The set includes excerpts from the thoroughly traditional "numbered" albums that made the group's reputation but also covers their pan-Celtic explorations, duets with stars of other genres, including Bela Fleck, Nanci Griffith, Linda Ronstadt and Los Lobos, plus encounters with notable Irish performers like Sinead O'Connor, Van Morrison, and The Corrs. It is obviously impossible to encapsulate such a long and varied career, even over the length of two generously-filled disks, but this well-picked program gives an accurate picture of the band's astonishing scope and virtuosity. --Christina Roden


Customer Reviews:   Read 2 more reviews...

4 out of 5 stars The EssentialChieftains   May 19, 2008
Nice collection of this groups music I have been looking for and wanted for many years. I would recommend this disc for fans of this group


4 out of 5 stars The Essential Chieftains & The irish Rovers   August 4, 2007
I would just like to say i found the CD of high class perfomerance
as i've be a great fan of the Chieftains for a long time i have got nearly all there LP & i used to go to all there concerts in Melbourne Australia please keep up your good Work
Thank You very much Amazon
your Truley
V A Hillier



5 out of 5 stars Incomparable   May 25, 2007
  0 out of 2 found this review helpful

In the words of Nanci Griffith, soloist on the incomparable 'Red Is The Rose': 'Thank you, Chieftains!'


5 out of 5 stars Essentially Excellent   February 18, 2007
This 2 CD set has great variety and is packed with great songs and performers. The traditional Chieftan style permeates the album but the variety of guest artists and wide range of songs makes this one of our most played CD's.


4 out of 5 stars A good collection--but not entirely my definition of essential   January 18, 2007
  2 out of 2 found this review helpful

They've got a lot of the country roots in this collection in addition to a lot of their early work, but I'm particularly missing "Morning has Broken" with Art Garfunkel, "Rocky Road to Dublin" and the multinational chart hit, "Sake in the Jar."

Still this is a very worthwhile collection particularly if you don't have some of the Nashville Chieftains CDs.


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