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The Essential Chieftains | 
 enlarge | Artist: The Chieftains
Label: RCA
Category: Music
List Price: $24.98
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Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 4143
Format: Original Recording Remastered
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 75398
UPC: 828767539829
EAN: 8287675398294
ASIN: B000E6EJ34
Release Date: February 21, 2006
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| Tracks:
Disc 1
| • | Lots Of Drops Of Brandy | | • | The Green Fields of America | | • | Santiago de Cuba | | • | The Donegal Set; Willy's Single\ King of the Pipers\ The Glen Road to Carrick | | • | Jabadaw | | • | The Bells of Dublin/Christmas Eve | | • | The French March | | • | The Stone | | • | The Munster Cloak/Tabhair Dom Do Lamh (Give Me Your Hand); The Munster Cloak\ Tabhair Dom Do Lamh (Give Me Your Hand) | | • | Chasing The Fox |
Disc 2
| • | I Know My Love | | • | Shenandoah | | • | Country Blues | | • | Medley; Ladies Pantalettes\ Belles of Blackville\ First House in Connaught (Reels) | | • | The Foggy Dew | | • | Red is the Rose | | • | The Squid Jiggin' Ground / Larry O'Gaff; The Squid Jiggin' Ground\ Larry O'Gaff | | • | Lambs in the Greenfields | | • | Guadalupe | | • | Mo Ghile Mear ("Our Hero") | | • | Cotton-Eyed Joe | | • | Molly Ban (Bawn) | | • | Long Journey Home | | • | Love Is Teasin' | | • | The Rebel Jesus | | • | Il Est Ne / Ca Berger; Il Est Ne\ Ca Berger | | • | Jimmy Mo Mhile Stor |
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Amazon.com
More than 40 years on, the Chieftains are still the world's nonpareil Irish acoustic instrumental outfit. While celebrated for the international dissemination of their national mother lode they have actually promoted music from all six Celtic Nations; beginning with Ireland (Eire) but also honoring ancient folkways from Scotland (Alba), the Isle of Mann (Ellan Vannin), Brittany (Breizh), Wales (Cymru), and Cornwall (Kernow.) Furthermore, they have sought out musicians from other Celtic enclaves, such as Galicia (Northern Spain,) Cape Breton Island (Nova Scotia -- one of North America's few Gaelic-speaking regions) and the Southern U.S., where haunting modal tunes imported by mountain-dwelling Scots-Irish immigrants provided the essence of old-timey country and bluegrass music. There have also been pop-star collaborations and a myriad of concept, live-in-concert and tribute albums. The set includes excerpts from the thoroughly traditional "numbered" albums that made the group's reputation but also covers their pan-Celtic explorations, duets with stars of other genres, including Bela Fleck, Nanci Griffith, Linda Ronstadt and Los Lobos, plus encounters with notable Irish performers like Sinead O'Connor, Van Morrison, and The Corrs. It is obviously impossible to encapsulate such a long and varied career, even over the length of two generously-filled disks, but this well-picked program gives an accurate picture of the band's astonishing scope and virtuosity. --Christina Roden
Album Description
Import only 37-track collection, part of Sony/BMG's 'Essential' line.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 2 more reviews...
 The EssentialChieftains May 19, 2008
Nice collection of this groups music I have been looking for and wanted for many years. I would recommend this disc for fans of this group
The Essential Chieftains & The irish Rovers August 4, 2007
I would just like to say i found the CD of high class perfomerance
as i've be a great fan of the Chieftains for a long time i have got nearly all there LP & i used to go to all there concerts in Melbourne Australia please keep up your good Work
Thank You very much Amazon
your Truley
V A Hillier
 Incomparable May 25, 2007
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
In the words of Nanci Griffith, soloist on the incomparable 'Red Is The Rose': 'Thank you, Chieftains!'
Essentially Excellent February 18, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This 2 CD set has great variety and is packed with great songs and performers. The traditional Chieftan style permeates the album but the variety of guest artists and wide range of songs makes this one of our most played CD's.
A good collection--but not entirely my definition of essential January 18, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
They've got a lot of the country roots in this collection in addition to a lot of their early work, but I'm particularly missing "Morning has Broken" with Art Garfunkel, "Rocky Road to Dublin" and the multinational chart hit, "Sake in the Jar."
Still this is a very worthwhile collection particularly if you don't have some of the Nashville Chieftains CDs.
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