The Saint Patrick's Day's Post.

Here are a few things for Saint Patrick's Day.....

The Best of the Chieftains [The Chieftains]
Traditional Irish music, I got this a few years ago for Christmas-- It is very good. We saw them at the Hollywood Bowl a few years ago, and the one with the funny hairdo in the center still had the funny hairdo (I think that one is Paddy Maloney). But they are fantastic, I mean, gosh, it's the Chieftains! Oh and, according to amazon, this release draws from 3 releases of the 70s, the last three releases which were strictly traditional music.
grab it here

Float [Flogging Molly]

So I was visiting a friend in Boston at the beginning of my break, and when we were in Cambridge ("our fair city") or Harvard Square or whatever, we went to Newbury Comics after having really really good burgers at Bartley's. I thought we were going to a comic book shop, but it turned out to be a record store. Which is fine. Being a Flogging Molly fan, I bought the new album. When the woman at the counter handed me my bag, I got super confused because there somethin heavy in the bag that seemed to be more than a cd. Well, it turns out, I got a free pint glass with my purchase of the cd. I think this might be just a Newbury Comics thing, so if you are gonna buy the album, and you can get to a Newbury Comics, buy it from them because nothing makes you (or maybe just me...) feel validated like a free pint glass. No siree bob.

As for Float itself, I can't say that I am super impressed. I've only listened twice and I wasn't paying attention either time, so I am reserving judgment, but it doesn't seem to be outstanding. It sounds good, but not amazing. I do like Flogging Molly a great deal. But give it a listen, tell us what you think. And get yerself a free pint glass.

get it here


1798-1998 Irish Songs Of Rebellion [The Alias Acoustic Band]
It's really really really good. I bought it on sale at Borders or something on whim. The first track includes a portion of the last stanza of W.Y. Yeats's "Easter 1916." I really like W.B. Yeats. I really like this cd. yup. On Amazon, there only seem to be the 2-disc-er versions, and mine is only 1 disc (disk?).
get it here

AND AND AND

Top o' the Morning: His Irish Collection [Bing Crosby]
ok so a few of the songs are pretty kitschy, but... it's BING AND IT IS FABULOUS!

get it here


And I know it has been posted before, but it is a staple here and it is amazing. And the link is still working. Here's The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem: In Person At Carnegie Hall.

I know I'll be watching.....

The Quiet Man
I watch it every St. Patrick's Day, no matter how corny or whatever.... I LOVE John Wayne (gahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh) and John Ford and the rest of the usual John Ford companyand I wish I was more like Maureen O'Hara.

"St. Patrick's Day" from The Quiet Man (1952) (Traditional/Victor Young) (performed by the Boston Pops Orchestra with Itzak Perlman, conducted by John Williams)
(from Cinema Serenade II: The Golden Age, the entirety of which can be grabbed, as previously posted, from here)


or watch The Informer ... a earlier John Ford film, also with Victor McLagen, about a former IRA man turned informer. It's really good too.

HAPPY SAINT PATRICK'S DAY, Y'ALL.