The Best of the Chieftains [1992] The Chieftains

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CD - Remastered

  • Release Date: 02/19/2002
  • Original Release: 1992
  • Sales Rank: 8,721
  • Label: SONY
  • UPC: 696998601727

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The Best of the Chieftains [1992]

1LISTENUp Against the Buachalawns 4:02
2LISTENBoil the Breakfast Early 3:53
3LISTENFriel's Kitchen 4:41
4LISTENNo. 6 the Coombe 3:50
5LISTENO'Sullivan's March 3:59
6LISTENSea Image 6:11
7LISTENAn Speic Seoigheach 3:36
8LISTENThe Dogs Among the Bushes 2:05
9LISTENThe Job of Journeywork 4:15
10LISTENOh! The Breeches Full of Stitches 4:21
11LISTENChase Around the Windmill 5:01
12LISTENThe Wind That Shakes the Barley/The Reel with the Beryle 2:50

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Editorial Reviews

Well, sort of. The 50 minutes of music here represent the best of the group's three albums (Chieftains 7, Chieftains 8, Boil the Breakfast Early) recorded for Columbia Records during 1977, 1978, and 1979. It's a good collection, and not a bad place to start for the new listener, though it won't offer any revelations for longtime fans, who'd tuned in long before this point in their history. The lineup during this era was Paddy Moloney (uillean pipes, tin whistle), Sean Keane (fiddle), Mick Tubridy (flute, tin whistle, concertina), Kevin Cunniffe (bodhran), Martin Fay (fiddle), Derek Bell (harp, timpan, oboe), and Sean Potts (tin whistle), with Matt Molloy (flute) replacing Mick Tubridy on Boil the Breakfast Early. The material, a good distillation of the best of those three albums, all sounds fine and represents the group's virtuoso sound from this period. Bruce Eder, All Music Guide

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Two CD's, Two Reviewsby High-School-Harry

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August 31, 2009: The first CD is excellent. Traditional Celtic music (and culture) has been a particular favorite of mine for many years. There are none better than The Chieftans especially with their earlier material. The first CD captures some of this however some of the remakes and remastering loses some of the more gritty original flavor. Not a complaint, really, still top notch old school Irish with all the joy and pain; the humor and whimsey that goes with it. None better.

The second CD... I could have lived without in the two-fer set. I have actually only listened to it once. Mostly my own personal taste. I don't care for it when they stray from the Irish traditional roots and do some sort of blend with non-Irish artists. Not my cup of tea.