Colin McEnroe Show: Irish Music That Doesn't Suck
Happy St. Patty's Day!
Published: Mar 17, 2011
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Colin McEnroe Show: Irish Music That Doesn't Suck
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For many years of my adult life, I rejected Irish-American culture. I don't particularly like the way St. Patrick's Day is celebrated in this country with green beer and bad music. Growing up in the 1960s, I had few exposures to anything deeper and "rootsier" than tacky Irish-American treacle.
But there was a shift that started in the late 1980s, and I would argue that it came first in film, with "My Left Foot," "The Dead," "The Commitments," "The Crying Game" and a dozen or soother unsentimentalized movies set in Ireland. And those movies dragged new sounds along with them. At pretty much the same time U2 had climbed into international superstardom with an Irish sound that didn't pander.
Those movies and U2, I would argue, created a new market for Irish authenticity. For me it meant a real discovery of and immersion in traditional Irish music.
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Susan McKeown - The Hare's Lament
Deanta - Willie and Mary
Jason Robert Brown -I Could Be In Love with Someone LikeYou
Solas - A Sailor's Life
Dropkick Murphys - Fields of Athenry
The High Kings - Fields of Athenry
The High Kings - Step It Out Mary
Patrick Streeet - William Taylor
Lunasa - Morning Nightcap
Luka Bloom - You Couldnt Have Come At A Better Time
Dervish - Sean Bhain
Christy Moore - Ordinary Man
T with the Maggies - Biodd Orm
La Lugh - Bealtaine
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I have been loving the Jolly
I have been loving the Jolly Beggars cd. Thanks for mentioning them on your show. Sweet vocal harmonies.
Loved this show
I love Celtic and Irish music. Thank you so much for introducing me to some artists that I was not familiar with and will get to know their music much better. It was a very enjoyable show!
E-mail from J.C.
Charlie Haden has a killer Athenry.
E-mail from Jim
Please mention the late great Kirsty Maccoll!!!
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