Hi, I'm a psychiatric and learning disability nurse.3 children-just had last baby on 8 May 2007.Use...
Hi, I'm a psychiatric and learning disability nurse.3 children-just had last baby on 8 May 2007.Used to travel a lot but don't get out much now!
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I love this album.I love it so much I used to make my Thai lodger listen to it after our weekly bonding pub sessions.She didn't get it! I first heard the title song "Ride On" 18 years in our local music playing pub and have sang this and other songs so often using my guitar and my Christy Moore song book that the book's fallen apart!
Background Christy was born 1945 in County Kildare (Eire) and was one of the founding members of "Planxty "-an Irish folk band who shared the stage with Donovan in County Galway in the 1970's.He eventually left to set up another band "Moving Hearts" and then went solo.He has an interest in songs which are involved in social or political commentary.I've seen him live twice at the Hexagon in Reading and it was fantastic.I had to drag my husband-ageing grumpy biker-kicking and screaming the first time but he was like a lamb the second time because this man is so multi skilled-singing,guitar, bodhran(Irish drum) ,humour,stage presence-you name it-he's got it.My husband's previous experience of this genre was Thin Lizzy's "Whisky in the Jar" but he is now a born again folkie all thanks to Christy Moore.Christy has also played at Glastonbury.
Style This album was released in 1987.It's categorised as world music in the adverts for the album which put its retail price as currently between 4 and 6 pound.I think that this is an accurate description as Irish folk music makes me think of River dance (I'm not knocking it-I was there!) or "around the house and mind the dresser" sort of music and this is very different. There are 12 songs on the album
City of Chicago Ride On Vive la Quinta Brigada Song of Wandering Angus McIlhatton Lisdoonvarna Wicklow Hils Sonny's Dream Dying Soldier El Salvador Back Home in Derry Least We Can Do
The title track is by a well known Irish songwriter from Cork called Jimmy McCarthy and includes the inimitable line "Rub your claw along my gut one last time"-you couldn't make it up if you tried could you! While I have had no idea what this song is about for the past 18 years I am always moved by it as there's something very haunting about the combination of the words and the tune.
There is a melancholic thread which runs through the album on the whole.For example "Viva la Quinta Brigada" sings about the Irish volunteers who went to fight in the Spanish Civil war against Franco and fascism."Dying Soldier" is about the Troubles in Ireland presumably, "Sonny's Dream" is about a father who's died and a needy mother who wants her son to stay with her."Back Home in Derry" is a fast ,rousing ,very sad song about the transportation of convicts written by Bobby Sands, the hunger striker who died.In fact, the only happy song is "Lisdoonvarna" which refers to a place in County Clare which is famous for music.This and the last song on the album are the only ones which I am not particularly keen on but overall this is an album well worth getting.Yes it's got dark themes in the songs but it makes you think and be moved.
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