Track Listing

1. Are You Ready Yet?/The Tailor's Thimble/Donoghue's Reel/I'm Ready Now!
2. Green Brooms/The Humours Of Kill Clougher
3. The Old Ruined Cottage In the Glen/The Morning Dew/Think Before You Think Before You Speak!
4. Paddy Rainey's Jig/Johnny Leary's/Winnie Hayes'
5. Fair And Tender Ladies
6. Peggy's Nettles/The Butlers of Glen Avenue/The Mountain Top
7. The Cameron Highlander/The Blackthorn Stick
8. An Paistin Fionn
9. The Peeler's Jacket/The Millner's Daughter
10. The Outlandish Knight
11. Dinny O'Brien's/Tommy People's/The Small Hills Of Offaly
12. Banish Misfortune/Trip To Athlone/Trim The Velvet
13. Eochaill

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #68843 in Music
• Released on: 2000-02-22
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .21 pounds

From Amazon.co.uk
While many of the new breed of folk musicians are constantly exploring new directions, there are just as many--and an equally large audience--whose aim is to maintain the status quo and preserve the tradition in its purest form. Listening to Waterford seven-piece Danú's second album "blind", it could easily have come from any point after the Chieftains' debut album in the late 1960s, such is its timelessness. The band's youth brings a boundless energy to the proceedings but the material and approach to it are firmly passed down from their musical forefathers. Tom Doorley's flute playing is hugely indebted to Matt Molloy's and is just as effective. The album covers a range of boisterous jigs and reels, all steeped in Irish musical history, plus a smattering of slightly less absorbing songs. Danú were voted the best live act of 2000 in one poll and are by far at their best when heading off at full steam, tempered by an undoubted musical virtuosity. For those who like their Irish folk straight down the middle, Think Before You Think may be indispensable. --Phil Udell