Track Listing: 1. Patsy Touhy's Reel / Old Cuffe Street 2. Sean O'Dwyer of the Glen 3. The Boys of Malin / The High Road to Linton 4. The Duke of Leinster / The Morning Dew 5. The Hare in the Corn / Padraig O'Keeffe's Jig 6. Bonaparte's Retreat 7. McFadden's Reel 8. Miss Patterson's Slipper 9. Top It Off / The Sunny Banks 10. The Cup of Tea / John Doherty's Reel 11. Cherish The Ladies 12. The Pinch of Snuff / The Wild Irishman 13. Julia Delaney's / The Mother's Delight 14. The King of the Pipers / Arthur Darley's Jig 15. The Gravel Walks 16. Red Haired Charles !7. The Boyne Hunt / Single Jig Click on underlined titles to hear MP3 sound bites

We are delighted to announce our release of this classic CD.

Music on the Fiddle
PADDY GLACKIN
CEFCD060


With:
Tom, Seamus, Kevin Glackin on track 12
Micheal O'Suilleabhain Harpsichord/Arrangements tracks 2, 9, 17.
Produced by Tony MacMahon

A truly magnificent album of traditional fiddle playing which Paddy recorded back in 1977 and which can be heard again--fans had been wishing for a CD reissue for years. Now their wishes have come true. Gael Linn in their project of re-releasing classic recordings from their back catalogue, have bowed to public pressure, and are delighted to announce the re-issue of this essential album. Most of the tracks being unaccompanied, Paddy's clean and energetic playing style and his inventive variations can be savored and studied. Still among my favorites after all these years are the track where Paddy plays "Julia Delaney" and "Mother's Delight" on the viola, and the one where he is joined by his father Tom and his brothers Seamus and Kevin for a powerful fiddle quartet on the great Donegal reel 'The Gravel Walks," with appropriate doubling at the octave.

Born and raised in the small Dublin village of Clontarf, Glackin was weaned on the Donegal style of fiddling played by his father, Tom. Glackin was equally influenced by the playing of John Doherty, an itinerant fiddler from Donegal.

A founding member of the Bothy Band, fiddler Paddy Glackin left to pursue a solo career shortly before the band launched their professional career.

While Paddy's art is essentially that of a soloist, he has been involved in a range of groups and performances, which demonstrate his musical flexibility and his willingness to experiment in placing "authentic" traditional music in new and often quite alien contexts. He was fiddle player with the group "Seachtar" later to become the Bothy Band and also he was a member of "Ceoltoiri Laighean". For many years a much sought after session musician, Glackin's fiddling can also be heard on recordings by Van Morrison, Kate Bush and John Cage.

Paddy Glackin's father, who was his first mentor and guide in the realm of traditional music, came fromThe Rosses in Donegal. His mother was of Mayo ancestry was born and reared in Dublin, as Paddy himself was. The other really formative influence in his musical life has been that of Johnny Doherty, the great Donegal fiddler.

Paddy is one of the more outstsnding of the younger generation of traditional fiddlers; is in keen demand as a soloist at concerts and sessions; he also appears frequently playing with Tony MacMahon, th eproducer of this record; and was a member of Ceoltoiri Laighean. Seamus Ennis

Press Reviews
A "must-have." Rating: **** Philippe Varlet.