| Product Summary | | Label: Bmg/rca Victor | | UPC: 00090266363728 | | Release Date: 2/22/2000 | | Buy.com Sku: 60391292 | | Item#: MSD5HH | | Buy.com Sales Rank: 23913 | Format:  CD |
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| Despite their star-studded history, the trappings of fame have not compromised The Chieftains' respect for their roots. They are as comfortable swapping tales and tunes in a Dublin pub as they are headlining a concert at London's Royal Albert Hall. After 36 years and as many recordings, The Chieftains continue to surprise. Water From the Well draws deeply from the stream of Irish tradition encountered on an inner life through the Chieftains' homeland. The selections show the band's keene sense of both drama and sprightly festivity. Rich but lean, their music never uses more than is needed to fill either the broad canvass or the bracing vignette.
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Notes & Personnel Info |  | The Chieftains: Kevin Conneff (vocals, bodhran); Sean Keane, Martin Fay (fiddle); Derek Bell (harp, piano, harpsichord, tiompan); Matt Malloy (flute); Paddy Moloney (tin whistle, Uilleann pipes, accordion). | | Altan: Daithi Sproule (guitar); Ciaran Curran (bouzouki); Mairead Ni Mhaonaigh, Ciaran Tourish (fiddle); Dermot Byrne (accordion). | | Kilfenora Ceilidh Band: Michael Kelleher, Tommy Peoples (fiddle); Seamus Hynes (flute); Mary Corocoran (piano). | | Additional personnel: Laurence Courtney (vocals, banjo); Seamus Begley (vocals, accordion); Frankie Lane, Daith O Se, Ciaran O Gealbhain (vocals); Barney McKenna (banjo); Noel Grady (bouzouki); Ashley MacIsaac, John McHugh, James Murphy, Cora Smyth (fiddle); Janet Harbison, Laoise Kelly, The Belfast Harp Orchestra (harp); Rev. Gary Hastings, Peter Horan, Peter Molloy (flute); Dave Munnelly (accordion); Eoin O Beaglaoich (concertina). | | WATER FROM THE WELL was nominated for the 2001 Grammy Award for Best World Music Album. | | On 1999's TEARS OF STONE, the Chieftains' prior effort, the venerable Irish institution collaborated (surprisingly successfully) with a number of pop performers, some of whom (Bonnie Raitt, Natalie Merchant, Joan Osborne) had little or no discernible connection with traditional Irish music (apart from enjoying it, of course). On the aptly titled WATER FROM THE WELL, the Chieftains return to more authentic Irish turf, and the results, unsurprisingly, are gorgeous; nobody plays this music more ravishingly. | | About a third of the album is sung (Frankie Lane--no, not the "Rawhide" guy--guests on the jaunty "Jack of All Trades"), but the strictly instrumental numbers are often the most impressive, with Chieftain Derek Bell's harpsichord lending astonishing orchestral textures on "Lots of Drops of Brandy," the Belfast Harp Orchestra fleshing out the seraphically lovely "Planxty George Brabazon," and Dubliner (and almost Chieftain) Barney McKenna adding piquant banjo on "Within a Mile of Dublin." |
Producer: Paddy Moloney |
Musical Guests | | Altan | | Seamus Begley | | Ashley MacIsaac | | Frankie Lane | | Kilfenora Ceilidh Band | | Janet Harbison | | Laoise Kelly |
| | Compilation Appearances |
| | Associated Artists and Works | | Ears, Rabbit | | Galway, James | | Over the Sea to Skye: The Celtic Connection ~ Galway, James | | Galway, James | | Galway, James | | Galway, James | | Largo | | Largo ~ Largo | | Morrison, Van | | Morrison, Van | | Morrison, Van | | Original Soundtrack | | Original Soundtrack | | Rabbit Ears | | Streep, Meryl | | Van Morrison | | Van Morrison | | Van Morrison |
| | Technical Info | | Release Date : 02/22/2000 | | Original Release Date : 2000 | | Catalog ID : 63637 | | Label : RCA Victor Records (USA) | | Number of Discs : 1 | | Studio/Live : Studio | | Mono/Stereo : Stereo | | SPAR Code : n/a | | UPC : 00090266363728 |
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| | Professional Reviews | | Q (4/00, p.88)
- 3 stars out of 5 - "...[They] turn back to their roots with this set. An album of great balance....the textures here are so distinctive and rich that theirs is still one of the definitive sounds of a good time."Uncut (8/02, p.100)
- 3 out of 5 - "...The Chieftains are a treasure and every home should have at least one of their albums..." |
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