Laddies and Lasses - show me your Irish/Celtic rock love

Any and all Irish Rovers tunes you can download!

 

Molly Malone is one i like.

 

I am a bassist first and long time TBer, but a mandolin and some Celtic music dug deep under my skin a few years ago, so I now play mando and banjo in a Celtic Punk band. Here is what we are listening to:

Celtic Rock/Punk:

• Young Dubliners - especially the album With All Due Respect. Brilliant takes on a bunch of Irish standards
• Flogging Molly - of course
• Dropkick Murphys - I don't actually love them, but they are obligatory on any list like this
• The Tossers - tremendous band out of Chicago, the best band I know for drinking music you might not actually know the words to
• Flatfoot 56 - another tremendous Chicago band, but more punk than Celtic
• The Real McKenzies - Celtic punk from Canada. Loud, rowdy, drunk, and old. These guys have seen everything and done everything
• Kilmaine Saints - good friends of ours, they have put out a lot of great music over the years
• Shilelagh Law - Just learning about them, and the more I hear the more I like
• The Rumjacks - Australian punk band that would have taken over America by now if they weren't on the other side of the world
• I would plug Hold Fast here, but our album is stuck in post-production purgatory. March is a busy month for a Celtic punk band!

Traditional Folk Bands

• The Dubliners - The godfathers of Irish folk music
• The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem - the lighter side of Irish folk, but just as important as The Dubliners
• The Irish Rovers - mentioned above, a solid recommendation
• The Irish Descendents - Second generation, but very traditional. Just like second wave ska, we're talking about the 90s
• The High Kings - a polished commercial product that does strictly covers of traditional tunes. Nevertheless, they are great at what they do
• Gaelic Storm - I debated which category to put them in. They do a lot of originals, but they also do plenty of traditionals

Instrumental Irish Folk

• We Banjo 3 - Enda Scahill is widely recognized as the greatest Irish tenor banjo player ever, but the rest of his bandmates (his brother and a pair of brothers that started as his students) are not far behind him. Best show I've ever seen in my life
• Planxty - old school, pretty dull by today's standards, but giants of the genre
• Socks In The Frying Pan - young guys doing a great job
• The Chieftains - another monumental name in the history of Irish Traditional Music
• Danu - instrumental, great for interludes
• Beoga - ditto
• Talisk - ditto
• Teada - ditto

Ahem. I'm done. If you want specific song recommendations from there, I'm game.

 

Irish drinking music? what about...



may the bass be with you

Wise(b)ass

 

My God, how did I miss the Pogues? That's grounds for having my flat cap taken away...

 

Daath for the metalheads
In the light-led zepplin
Van Morrison
Cranberries
U2

 

maybe because they were from London?

greetings

Wise(b)ass

 

<self-plug>Back in the '90s I did a couple of records with a somewhat funky Celtic roots band, some trad stuff and some not. It may fit the bill for you, or may not.

Kips Bay Ceili Band, Digging In
Kips Bay (shortened name for 2nd album), Into The Light

The records may be out of print for all I know; they were originally on Green Linnet.</self-plug>

 

Some Canadian content:

Great Big Sea - anything off of thier "Play" album
Spirit of the West - Home for a Rest
Jimmy George - anything off the "Month of Sundays" album
Stan Rogers - Barrett's Privateers

 

btw: Happy St. P- day everybody!!!



don' t drink that stuff, you will....

Wise(b)ass

 

Horslips. Dearg Doom.

 

Cranberries, Karine Polwart. Sorry, a little late but that's always for next year. A tribute to Cranberries was probably already obvious.

 

Celtic Metal - Eluveitie. They have songs in Gaulish, which is an extinct Celtic language. I friggin love that band.

 

Name the other six Celtic nations.....

 

Oops, they're Swiss! Thats what you get when you assume! Will have to listen to Eluveitie now to see what they're like.

 

Oh come one 17 posts and no one mentions the obvious

 

So, @Marley's Ghost, how did the show go?