Ce sont les immigrants Irlandais en Amérique qui ont enregistré les premiers disques de musique folk �irlandaise�. Mais les musiciens irlando-américains ont agrégé aux traditions celtiques de nombreux éléments puisés parmi les autres musiques américaines, notamment le jazz. Ce coffret retrace cette aventure en offrant certains de ses meilleurs moments musicaux.
�IRISH BILL� ANDREWS: Ask my father when he came from Ireland � MICHAEL J. CASHIN: Ginger�s favorite/The bogs of Allen � MICHAEL CARNEY: The jolly tinker � MICHAEL COLEMAN: Lord Mc Donald/Ballinasloe fair/Tarbolton/Longford collector/Sailor�s bonnet � MICHAEL COLEMAN: Tell her I am/Trip to Sligo � PETER �P.J.� CONLON: The college grove/The floggin� � PACKIE DOLAN: The grove � DINNY �JIMMY� DOYLE: Let Mr Maguire sit down � TOM ENNIS: The Wexford reel � FLANAGAN BROTHERS: Moving bogs � FLANAGAN BROTHERS: On the road to the fair � MICHAEL GAFFNEY: The night cap/The mysteries of Knock � HUGH GILLESPIE: Finnea lassies/Curran�s castle � JOHN GRIFFIN: The real old mountain dew � ELEANOR KANE: The morning dew/The traveller/Shark favourite � PADDY KILLORAN: The grease in the bog � JOHN Mc CORMACK: Ballymore � JOHN Mc GETTIGAN: The maid of the Moorlough shore � JOHN Mc KENNA: Colonel Frazier � JOHN Mc KENNA & JAMES MORRISON: The tailor�s thimble/Red haired boy � MAURICE Mc SWEENEY: Bank of Ireland � EDDIE MEEHAN & JOHN Mc KENNA: Bridie Morley�s � JAMES MORRISON: Farewell to Ireland � TOM MORRISON: Dunmore lassies/Manchester reel/Castelbar traveller � WILLIAM MULLALY: The green groves of Erin/The ivy leaf � EDWARD MULLANEY & PATRICK STACK: The Chicago reel/Rambling pitchfork � DELIA MURPHY: The Irish girl�s lament � FRANK MURPHY: The rakes of Clonmel � NEIL NOLAN: Miller�s reel/Duffy the dancer � FRANK QUINN & JOE MAGUIRE: Sailing home/Donovan�s reel � ED REEVY: Tom Clarke�s fancy/The boys at the Lough � PAT ROCHE: Boys of Bluehill � DAN SULLIVAN: Nano�s favorite � PADDY SWEENEY & PADDY KILLORAN: Ah surely/The steeplechase � JOSEPH TANSEY: St Patrick�s night/ The crushen � PATRICK J. TOUHEY: Drowsy Maggie/Scotch Mary/The floggin�.
DIRECTION G�RARD HERZHAFT IRISH IN AMERICA
