Planxty - CD/SD

I've been on a big Planxty-related buzz over Christmas and I was thinking - reharmonising of old well known songs, adding virtuoso instrumental sections, bringing in instruments and tunes from other traditions and making it your own, a whole overlapping ecosystem of bands and members where you can start from one album and branch out as you see fit, all while being fully grounded in an oral tradition that goes way, way back - it's basically Irish jazz, isn't it?

Sweeney's Men were great, but Liam O'Flynn was Planxty's secret ingredient. Like for The Blacksmith they're playing an old English song they got from Steeleye Span, as a duet between mandolin and bouzouki, with an original Balkan-inspired coda at the end, but the pipes come in and suddenly you're in west Clare. The bit where everything but the pipes drop out and then they come back in with the bodhrán makes the whole song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_1YIJCrYHk

Liam O'Flynn RIP

https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2018/0314/947337-liam-oflynn/

Learned this on guitar once, DADGAD of course...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iw5Gi6U4MQ0

https://youtu.be/YMvBnEvuBuA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMvBnEvuBuA

Second attempt. Amazing performance from the 2004 gig

What a fuckin band tbh

No love on this thread for the Andy Irvine/Dick Caughan record 'Parallel Lines'?
I kinda get hung up on the Creggan White Hare and forget how stunning most of the rest of the record is - the main exception being the sax coda on "My Back Pages"... some stunning stunning material on here. "At Twenty One"? Damn!

Planxty!!!!!