Released 1983 Words & Music
(1983) Live 2004
(2004) Release date 1983 Producer Donal Lunny | Length 39:42 Artist Planxty Label Shanachie Records | |
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Recorded Late Oct. and early Nov. 1982,
at Windmill Lane Studios, Dublin Genres Folk music of Ireland, Celtic music Similar The Woman I Loved So, After the Break, Cold Blow and the Rainy Nig, The Well Below the Valley, Live 2004 | ||
Words & Music is the sixth album by the Irish folk band Planxty, produced by Dónal Lunny and recorded at Windmill Lane Studios in late October and early November of 1982; it would be their only release on the WEA label. In 1989, the album was reprinted by the Shanachie label, who have kept it in print ever since.
Contents
Expanded line-up
Like the previous album, The Woman I Loved So Well, the album features an expanded line-up of the band, with core members Christy Moore, Dónal Lunny, Andy Irvine and Liam O'Flynn joined again by keyboard player Bill Whelan, now a member of the band, and fiddler Nollaig Casey, who had been performing live with the band since 1980. Fiddler James Kelly and Moving Hearts bass player Eoghan O'Neill also appear on the album.
Track listing
- "Queen Of The Rushes"/"Paddy Fay's" (jigs) – 3:25
(Trad., Arr. Planxty) - "Thousands Are Sailing" (song) – 5:18
(Words: Trad., Music: A. Irvine, D. Lunny) - "Táimse Im' Chodladh" (slow air) – 4:07
(Trad., Arr. Planxty) - "Lord Baker" (song) – 9:16
(From John Reilly, with new words and music from C. Moore) - "Accidentals"/"Aragon Mill" (instrumental/song) – 6:02
(A. Irvine)/(S. Kahn) - "Aconry Lasses"/"The Old Wheels Of The World"/"The Spike Island Lasses" (reels) – 3:32
(Trad., Arr. Planxty) - "I Pity The Poor Immigrant" (song) – 4:25
(B. Dylan) - "Irish Marche" (Irish clan march) – 3:37
(William Byrd, Arr. L. O'Flynn, D. Lunny, B. Whelan)
Personnel
Songs
1I The Queen of the Rushes - II Paddy Fays Jig3:28
2Thousands Are Sailing5:19
3Taimse Im'Chodladh4:10