Jimmy Crowley
Soldiers' Songs: The Irish Abroad and Soldiering
2009 — Free State Records CD CRO 008 CD
Captain Mackey's Goatskin and Stringband
Track List:
Theme signature, Garryowen, on hammered dulcimer and bodhrán
Who Knows Where the Wind Blows
Meagher's Brigade
Theme signature on piano
The Men that God made Mad
Song from the Backwoods
Theme signature on bowed psaltery and bodhrán
The Ballad of Tom Crean
María de la Rosa
The Congo Recruit
Theme signature on harp and bodhrán
Brian Ború's March\The Gallant Munsters
Carrigdhoun
The Catalpa
Theme signature on piano
Down Erin's Lovely Lee
Credits
Jimmy Crowley and Máirtín de Cógáin
Album Notes
TWO GENERATIONS OF CORK BALLADEERS: Jimmy Crowley and Máirtín de Cógáin
Corkmen Máirtín de Cógáin and Jimmy Crowley have given their whole lives to the promulgation and nurture of the ballad. Both men hail from the rebel county of Cork and now reside in America. Máirtín and Jimmy proudly speak the Irish language and have won degrees in the subject from the University of Ireland.
Máirtín is a founding member of The Fuchsia Band who have taken many a festival by storm in America. A consummate story-teller, actor, singer and musician, he can be seen and heard in the hit movie, The Wind that Shakes the Barley about the Irish War of Independence and subsequent Civil War. Jimmy Crowley is reckoned to be something of a legend in Irish music from his earlier work with Stokers Lodge, described by Micheál Ó Súilleabháin as "an icon in Irish music". He has recorded ten albums of music, is a committed songwriter and a song collector; and has found in Máirtín an able partner and counterfoil for the respect and commitment they both have for all branches of the song tradition from the bardic, Gaelic songs to the present day revival.
Captain Mackey's Goatskin and Stringband takes its name from a legendary Irish-American Fenian and a legendary Cork folk band from the sixties, Paddy's Goatskin and Stringband, which had a seminal effect on Jimmy's musical life. The Stringband's membership is fleshed out by the addition of Irish fiddler Valerie Plested and guitarist Don Penzien for a mighty sound, indeed!
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