Released 2003 Length 54:00 Release date 2003 | Recorded 2003 Artist Liam O'Flynn Label Claddagh Records | |
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Genres Folk music of Ireland, Celtic music Similar The Given Note, The Piper's Call, Out to an Other Side, The Brendan Voyage | ||
The Poet & The Piper is a studio album by poet Seamus Heaney and piper Liam O'Flynn, recorded in 2003 and released in the same year. The album is made up of instrumental tracks and spoken poetry, both often mixed together. The recording features traditional and contemporary music, lyrics and poetry such as An Bonnán Buí, one of the oldest known Irish traditional songs. The album was used as a soundtrack for television programme Keeping Time broadcast on both RTÉ and the BBC.
Contents
Track listing
- The Given Note / Port na bPúcaí
- Digging
- Bogland
- Árdaí Chuain
- At the Wellhead
- The Otter
- The Rolling Wave / The Hag's Money
- The Yellow Bittern (An Bonnán Buí)
- The Yellow Bittern / The Broken Pledge
- The Glamoured (Gile na Gile)
- Aisling Gheal
- The Tollund Man
- Midterm Break
- Sliabh Gallon's Brae
- Clearances 3
- Clearances 5
- Cronán na Máthar
- Two Lorries
- The Humours of Castlebernard / The Bank of Turf
- A Call
- Seeing Things - Section 3
- Fáinne Geal an Lae
- St. Kevin and the Blackbird
- Open the Door for Three
- The Annals Say
- Postscript
- Garret Barry's Reel / Seán Reid's Favourite
Personnel
Songs
The Given Note / Port na bPúcaíSeamus Heaney4:46
DiggingSeamus Heaney1:51
BoglandSeamus Heaney1:19
References
The Poet & The Piper Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA