The Red Crow
by Altan
- Type: Album
- Released: 1 January 1990
- Label: Green Linnet
- Country: Ireland
- Length: 45:02
- Community rating: 3.95/5 from 1 rating
Album Notes & Community Reviews
Produced by P. J. Curtis, the album fields Mair茅ad N铆 Mhaonaigh on fiddle and vocals, Frankie Kennedy on flute, Paul O'Shaughnessy on fiddle, Mark Kelly on guitar and Ciar谩n Curran on bouzouki, with guests including Dermot Byrne and D贸nal Lunny. Its balance of songs and tunes, roughly forty to sixty, won the NAIRD Celtic/British Isles Album of the Year award, the first of three Altan albums to take it.
Genres
Descriptors: traditional, folk, harmonies, rhythmic, storytelling
Tracklist
- Yellow Tinker / Lady Montgomery / The Marry Harriers (2:46)
- Con Cassidy's / Dusty Millar (3:04)
- The Flowers of Magherally (4:20)
- Brenda Stubbert's / Breen's / The Red Box (4:55)
- Iris Duhun Ramha (3:13)
- Jimmy Lyon's / The Teelin / The Red Crow / The Broken Bridge (4:39)
- Moll Dubh A' Ghleanna (3:29)
- The Wedding Jig / Hiudai Gallagher's March / James Byrne's / Mickey Doherty's / Welcome Home Grainn (6:43)
- Mallai Chroch Shli (3:51)
- Tommy Bhetty's Waltz (5:01)
- The Emyvale / Ril Gan Ainm / The Three Merry Sisters of Fate (2:55)
Credits
- Altan - primary artist, arranged by
- Donal Lunny - bodhr谩n
- Johnny 'Ringo' McDonagh - bodhr谩n, percussion [bones]
- Ciaran Curran - bouzouki, guitar
- Mair茅ad N铆 Mhaonaigh - fiddle, vocals, written-by
- Frankie Kennedy - flute, backing vocals, whistling
- Mark Kelly - guitar, backing vocals
- Ross Wilson - artwork
- Greenberg Kingsley - design
- Dan Fitzgerald - engineer
- Mary McShane - engineer [assistant]
- Peter McGrath - engineer [assistant]
- Arty McGlynn - written-by
- Jerry Holland - written-by
- Traditional - written-by