Finbar Furey - Traditional Irish Pipe Music

Finbar Furey needs no real introduction to Celtic music fans except to point out that when he released this magnificent album in 1969 he was only 21 years old and already a master of the Uillean Pipes. I took the following from the sleeve notes "The Fureys are a musical family. Finbar's father, Ted, is a well-known fiddler who for many years played in that center of Dublin music, O'Donahue's Bar in Merrion Row. Finbar's arrival in Britain was preceded by his reputation as the youngest player ever to spellbind an audience. The pipes have always been considered an instrument to be mastered only in maturity. Possibly Finbar will be a great piper at the end of twenty-one years' playing, but certainly he was already a staggeringly good piper after just twenty-one years of living".....enjoy

Rakish Paddy

The Hag With the Money

Castle Terrace

Madams Bonaparte

The Young Girl Milking Her Cow

Fin's Favourite

Peter Byrne's Fancy

O'Rourke's Reel

Roy's Hands

Planxty Davy

The Bonny Bunch of Roses

Eddie's Fancy

The Silver Spear

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Finbar Furey - Traditional Irish Pipe Music

Fureys and Davey Arthur - Banshee

A rare 1978 LP by the legendary Fureys and Davey Arthur 1978. Great collection of less famous tunes by the band and never released on CD to my knowledge.

1. Ned Walsh's/The Piper's Chair
2. The Snows (they melt the soonest)
3. William Taylor
4. Derrol in the Rain
5. Baile An Ore/George White's/Aoife's Bottle
6. Pollution
7. Ship in full Sail/Badenloch/Hardiman's
8. I live not where I Love
9. Abroad as I was walking
10. Lonely One
11. Banshee
12. Sham-Rock

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Fureys and Davey Arthur - Banshee

Finbar & Eddie Furey - Lonesome Boatman

The Lonesome Boatman was released in 1969 by the Irish Folk music duo Finbar & Eddie Furey. The album followed on from the success of their 1968 debut album, It is best known for its title track which is played hauntingly on a tin whistle, as well as its magnificent version of the traditional ballad Carnlough Bay.

Bill Hart's Favourite
Dance Around The Spinning Wheel
Let Me Go To The Mountains
McShane
Colonel Fraser
The Lonesome Boatman
Carron Lough Bay
The Prickly Bush
Bogy's Bonny Belle
The Fox Chase

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Finbar & Eddie Furey - Lonesome Boatman