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2. Star of the County Down
3. Orange and the Green
4. My Boy Willie
5. Donald Where's Your Trousers?
6. Tied Up With a Black Velvet Band
7. Turra Market
8. Lovely Isle of Innisfree
9. Lily the Pink
10. Whiskey on a Sunday (The Puppet Song)
11. Jigs: Sweet Biddy Daly/Tatter Jack Walsh/The Rakes of Kildare/The Rambl
12. Gypsy Rover
13. Good Luck to the Barleymow
14. Unicorn
15. Muirsheen Durkin
16. Caltan Weaver
17. Rolling Home to Ireland
18. Wasn't That a Party? |
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Irish Rovers
Collection
2002 ROVERS
CD (October 29, 2002)
Original Release Date October 29, 2002
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There's an eight-page booklet of liner notes in this anthology, but nowhere in the notes or on the case does it say precisely when these 18 tracks were recorded. That's never a good sign when you're deciding which one or two anthologies of an artist's work to start with. It does emerge in passing in the liners that these are "new recordings of their classic favorites" made after the Irish Rovers formed their own Rover Records label in the late 1980s. The original versions would be preferable to these, though it's still competent and well-recorded, if predictable and relatively slick, traditional Irish music, usually with a rousing bent. It's not strictly traditional, of course; there's a re-recording of Shel Silverstein's "The Unicorn" (which they took to the Top Ten in 1968), a cover of the Scaffold's arrangement of "Lily the Pink," and Tom Paxton's "Wasn't That a Party?" (which has a very slight pop/rock feel with the slide guitar and less avowedly Irish rhythm). ~ Richie Unterberger, All Music Guide
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