The Chieftains | en

The Chieftains are a Grammy winning Irish musical group founded in 1962 (Dublin, Ireland), known for performing and popularizing Irish traditional music. The band has recorded many albums of instrumental Irish folk music, as well as multiple collaborations with popular musicians of many genres, including Country music, Galician traditional music, Cape Breton and Newfoundland music, and rock and roll. They have performed with Van Morrison, The Rolling Stones, Sting, Roger Daltrey, Elvis Costello, Tom Jones, Sinéad O'Connor, James Galway, Jackson Browne, Nancy Griffith and numerous Country-western artists. In 1975, the group won praise for their playing of "Women of Ireland"...

Site for buying: http://homeboysteve.bandcamp.com/album/thats-all Review by Mark Deming Calling the Blue Chieftains "the greatest country-blues-rock band that ever existed" (as some nameless soul does while introducing the band on this live disc) might be going just a bit far to make a point, but anyone who's heard them knows that description isn't all that far off the mark. The Blue Chieftains were titans of the East Coast's roots rock scene, holding down a Sunday night residency at New York City's Continental Club that lasted several years and cutting a pair of well-loved singles for the Diesel Only label, but the...