The Road from Connemara

by Joe Heaney

The Road from Connemara cover art
  • Type: Compilation
  • Released: 31 October 2000
  • Label: Topic
  • Country: Ireland
  • Length: 2:27:21
  • Community rating: 3.95/5 from 1 rating

Album Notes & Community Reviews

These thirty-nine tracks were recorded in the Beckenham home of Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger, who captured the great Carna singer in informal sessions. Edited by Fred McCormick, the two-disc set is the most extensive portrait of Heaney's unaccompanied sean-n贸s singing and storytelling ever issued.

Genres

Descriptors: a-cappella, unaccompanied-solo, traditional, storytelling, folk

Tracklist

  1. My Bonny Boy Is Young (4:37)
  2. The West of Ireland (0:59)
  3. Skibbereen (5:49)
  4. Bean Ph谩id铆n (1:37)
  5. The Song of the Eel (5:39)
  6. As I Roved Out (3:51)
  7. The Brown Blackthorn (8:51)
  8. Caroline and Her Young Sailor Bold (3:30)
  9. Fishing in Connemara (1:05)
  10. Song of the Drowning (5:36)
  11. Singing in Connemara (0:59)
  12. The Jug of Punch (2:44)
  13. The Ferocious O' Flahertys (0:52)
  14. The Widow from Mayo (5:26)
  15. The Harp Without the Crown (1:49)
  16. Suantra铆 (2:47)
  17. Adive to Young Singers (1:22)
  18. The Valley of Knockanure (6:03)
  19. The Valley of Knockanure - Actuality (1:28)
  20. Whiskey O Roudeldum-row (2:12)
  21. Barbary Ellen (5:32)
  22. The Two Greyhounds (4:07)
  23. The Old Woman of Wexford (2:46)
  24. The Banks of Claudy (4:51)
  25. 脡amonn an Chnoie (4:51)
  26. My Boy Willy (3:53)
  27. Pasty Mccann (2:36)
  28. Story and Song (6:27)
  29. The Hag with the Money (1:31)
  30. The Lonely Woods of Upton (3:49)
  31. O'brian from Tipperary (6:40)
  32. Ireland, Love of My Heart (5:06)
  33. C煤nnla (4:35)
  34. The Tennis Right (3:21)
  35. Enach Cuain (6:32)
  36. There Is a Fair Tomorrow in the County Clare- the Shoemaker (2:54)
  37. The Glen of Aherlow (4:28)
  38. Farewell to the Worries of Life (3:02)
  39. The Old Man Rocking the Cradle (2:46)

Credits

  • Joe Heaney - primary artist, vocals
  • Dan Quinn - transcription by [english lyrics]
  • Peggy Seeger - liner notes, recorded by
  • 脡amonn 脫 Br贸ithe - transcription by [gaelic lyrics], translated by [lyrics for booklet]
  • John Haxby - design
  • Liam Mac Con Iomaire - liner notes
  • Tony Dixon - mastered by
  • Tony Engle - producer
  • Ewan MacColl - recorded by
  • Folk - written-by

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