The Irish Rovers - Collection
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- The Last Of The Irish Rover
- The Star Of The County Down
- Orange And The Green
- My Boy Willie
- Donald Where's Your Trousers?
- Tied Up With A Black Velvet Band
- Turra Market
- The Lovely Isle Of Innisfree
- Lily The Pink
- Whiskey On A Sunday (The Puppet Song)
- The Jigs
- The Gypsy Rover
- Good Luck To The Barleymow
- The Unicorn
- Muirsheen Durkin
- The Caltan Weaver
- Rolling Home To Ireland
- Wasn't That A Party?
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Album Details: Collection
- Release Date:
- 10/29/2002
- Label:
- Varese Sarabande
- UPC:
- 030206637724
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Re-recordings of Irish Rovers' classics
, November 24, 2002
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| EXPERT RATING: From AMG Reviews 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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This quintet started out in the late '50s (curiously, by way of Canada) and by the mid-'60s were a popular folk ensemble on television on two continents. Although their work, exuberant and boisterous, with relatively little scholarship, and lacking a...Full The Irish Rovers Biography
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Most American listeners will know the Rovers only from their 1968 hit single of Shel Silverstein's "The Unicorn," or their early '80s recording of Tom Paxton's "Wasn't That a Party?" But their back catalog is filled with Irish ballads, drinking songs and family stories, accompanied by classic Irish guitar, whistle, accordion and multi-part singing. The Rovers typically avoided political statement (being a mixed band of Protestants and Catholics), though songs like "Orange and Green" do comment obliquely on The Troubles.
This newly recorded release finds the Rovers still in strong voice, and as joyous as ever. Only Will Millar is missing from the original lineup (he left the group in 1995), and new members, John Reynolds, Wallace Hood and Sean O'Driscoll all make strong contributions. These tracks appear to have been recorded in the mid-90s (the liner notes to do not say, but with Millar's absence and Jim Ferguson's presence, and noting that Ferguson passed away in 1997, 1996 seems likely), and revisit many of the Rovers' best-loved songs.
3-1/2 stars, if allowed fractional ratings. ...