Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem Absolutely Essential CD

2014 three CD set. The Clancy Brothers were an influential Irish Folk group, which initially developed as a part of the American Folk music revival. Most popular in the 1960s, they were famed for their trademark Aran jumpers and are widely credited with popularizing Irish traditional music in the United States and revitalizing it in Ireland, paving the way for an Irish Folk boom with groups like the Dubliners and the Wolfe Tones. The Clancy Brothers, Patrick 'Paddy' Clancy, Tom Clancy, and Liam Clancy, are best known for their work with Tommy Makem. It is this line-up that we celebrate with 60 great tracks.

1. The Rising of the Moon 2. The Foggy Dew 3. The Minstrel Boy 4. Whack Fol the Diddle 5. Eamonn An Chnuic 6. O'Donnell Aboo 7. The Croppy Boy 8. Kevin Barry 9. The Wind That Shakes the Barley 10. Kelly the Boy from Killane 11. The Men of the West 12. Tipperary Far Away 13. Nell Flaherty's Drake 14. Boulavogue 15. The Maid of the Sweet Brown Knowe 16. Bold Thady Quill 17. Rosin the Bow 18. The Real Old Mountain Dew 19. Courtin' in the Kitchen 20. Mick McGuire 21. The Moonshiner (Live) 22. The Whistling Gypsy (Live) 23. My Johnny Lad (Live) 24. The Work of the Weavers (Live) 25. The Old Orange Flute (Live) 26. Brennan on the Moor (Live) 27. Tim Finnegan's Wake (Live) 28. Port Lairge (Live) 29. Haul Away Joe (Live) 30. Young Roddy McCorley (Live) 31. A Jug of Punch (Live) 32. Reilly's Daughter (Live) 33. Johnny McEldoo 34. Whiskey You're the Devil 35. Cruiscin Lan 36. The Parting Glass 37. The Stuttering Lovers 38. The Maid of Fife-E-O 39. The Bard of Armagh 40. The Barnyards of Delgaty 41. Wild Mountain Thyme (Will Ye, Lassie, Go? 42. Marie's Wedding 43. The Wild Colonial Boy 44. The Castle of Dromore 45. The Bold Tenant Farmer 46. Ballinderry 47. Bungle Rye 48. Eileen Aroon 49. Johnny I Hardly Knew You 50. Bold O'Donahue 51. I'll Tell My Ma 52. Rothsea-O 53. Singin' Bird 54. Holy Ground 55. South Australia 56. As I Roved Out 57. McPherson's Lament 58. Shoals of Herring 59. I Know Who Is Sick 60. The Old Woman from Wexford