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With St. Patrick's Day and the search for green beer just a day away,
my first thought was to highlight
Irish
Drinking Songs, a collection by
The
Clancy Brothers,
The
Dubliners and
The
Irish Rovers of
Unicorn
fame. But then I came across The Wide World Over. And that
reminded me of Barry Lyndon, Stanley Kubrick's unimaginably
beautiful and unimaginably dull version of a novel by William
Makepeace Thackeray. Which is relevant only because that was the
first time I heard
The
Chieftains. Later on I had a couple of their records of
traditional Irish music in my collection, back when I had a record
collection. And now I can go back and recreate the less embarrassing
parts of that collection without all that bulky vinyl. Including this
album of collaborations with Irish performers like
Sinéad
O'Connor,
The
Corrs,
Joni
Mitchell and
Ziggy
Marley. (Ziggy Marley is Irish? Who knew?)
Or better yet,
enjoy
them uncombined. With or without green beer.
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