PADDY GLACKIN: GLACKIN (1977)
Paddy Glackin: fiddle
Tom, Seamus & Kevin Glackin: fiddles
Micheal O'Suilleabhain: harpsichord
A truly magnificent album of traditional fiddle playing which Paddy recorded back in 1977 and which can be heard again--fans had been wishing for a CD reissue for years. Most of the tracks being unaccompanied, Paddy's clean and energetic playing style and his inventive variations can be savored and studied--I personally learned a lot from listening to this album when I was learning to play Irish fiddle. Still among my favorites after all these years are the track where Paddy plays "Julia Delaney" and "Mother's Delight" on the viola, and the one where he is joined by his father Tom and his brothers Seamus and Kevin for a powerful fiddle quartet on the great Donegal reel "The Gravel Walks," with appropriate doubling at the octave. A "must-have."
Rating: ****
Price: $21.99
Contents:
1. Reels: Pat Touhey's Reel / Old Cuffe Street
2. Air & Set Dance: Sean O'Duibhir an Ghleanna
3. Reels: The Boys of Malin / The High Road to Linton
4. Reels: The Duke of Leinster / The Morning Dew
5. Jigs: The Hare in teh Corn / Patrick O'Keefe's Jig
6. Bonaparte's Retreat
7. Reels: McFadden's Reels
8. Reel: Miss Patterson's Slipper
9. Slip Jig & Reel: Top It Off / The Sunny Banks
10. Reels: The Cup of (Overdrawn) Tea / John Doherty's Reel
11. Jig: Cherish the Ladies
12. Reels: The Pinch of Snuff / The Wild Irishman
13. Reels: Julia Delaney's Reel / Mother's Delight
14. Jigs: The King of the Pipers / Arthur Darley's Jig
15. Reel: The Gravel Walks
16. Reels: Red Haired Charles / The Boyne Hunt
17. Single Jig
