JUNIOR CREHAN (1908-1998): THE LAST HOUSE IN BALLYMAKEA
Junior Crehan: fiddle, talking
Cissie Crehan; vocals
Baby Crehan: concertina
Tony Crehan: concertina
Angela & Ita Crehan: tinwhistles
P.J. Crotty: flute
Bobby Casey: fiddle
Eamon McGivney: fiddle
Released at the same time as the book "Martin Junior Crehan - Musical Compositions and Memories," this 2-CD set produced by Junior's daughter Ita contains 25 tracks of the famous West Clare fiddle player talking and playing, sometimes together with family members and musician-friends. A couple of additional tracks consist of Junior's wife Cissie singing a song, and Junior's mother Baby playing concertina--she was recorded in 1963 at age 87! Like the book, this is a marvelous welcome into the life in music of this gifted man
Rating: ****
Price: $39.99
Contents:
CD 1
1. Jig: The Luachrachan
2. Jigs: The Pipe on the Hob / Scully Casey's
3. Song: Lament for Willie Clancy
4. Reels: Farewell to Miltown Malbay / Mother's Delight
5. Air: A Stor mo Chroi - Love of my Heart
6. Hornpipe: The Last House in Ballymakea
7. Air & Hornpipe: Caoineadh an tSagairt (The Priest's Lament) / Caislean an Oir (The Golden Castle)
8. Song: Making Children by Steam
9. Set Dance: Planxty Davis
10. Air: An Paistin Fionn (The Fair-Haired Child)
11. Reels: Redigan's / Music in the Glen
CD 2
1. Jigs: The Mist Covered Mountain / Scully Casey's
2. Air: An Raibh Tu ag an gCarraig (Were You at the Rock)
3. Reels: The Old Torn Petticoat / The Green Fields of America
4. Song: The Christmas Letter
5. Emigration (spoken)
6. Reel: The West Clare Railway
7. March & Jig: God Save Ireland / Sweet Biddy Daly
8. Reels: Pigeon on the Gate / Gardiner's / Dogs Among the Bushes / Gan Ainm
9. Set Dance: Bonaparte's Retreat
10. The Country House Dance (spoken)
11. Air: Lament for the Country House Dance
12. Set Dance: The Humours of Bandon
13. Air: Caoineadh Bean Ui Chiarrai (The Kerry Woman's Lament)
14. Jigs: Gan Ainm / The Connaught Man's Rambles
