| Oh. Damn. There's a guy in my group who keeps telling me "you've
just GOT to buy a CD player!" (after 2 years, it gets tedious).
I keep telling him "Sure, and I will -- when I can get stuff from
Shanachie, Green Linnet, Flying Fish, Kicking Mule and Philo, on
CDs." Guess I should start saving my pennies?
Dick
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| re:.2
Well, Dick, it's been almost a year and a half. Have you gotten
a CD player yet?
re:.3
Well, the set up costs for a new technology are such that anything
that isn't guaranteed a large sale is likely to be left out. At
any rate, in the time since these previous notes, those costs have
been going down, and a number of small labels are putting out CD's.
I haven't seen anything from Kicking Mule yet (oh, for Caswell
Carnahan on CD I'd sell my soul!), but Green Linnet, Shanachie,
Rounder/Philo/Varrick/et al., Flying Fish, and others have been
putting out CD's. CD's are still out of reach of the really small
independents, but I don't think it'll be too long before the
medium is accessible to all. In fact, the compact disc could be
a great boon to folk music of all kinds in that it'll be a much
better archival medium for recordings than anything else currently
available.
Anyways, here is a list of Celtic music I have on CD so far (I'm
still working on more...):
The Clancy Brothers & Lou Killen
GREATEST HITS Vanguard
Clannad CLANNAD IN CONCERT Shanachie
" MAGICAL RING RCA (import)
" LEGEND RCA (import)
" MACALLA RCA
" THE COLLECTION K-Tel International
" RING OF GOLD Celtic Music
" SIRIUS RCA
De Danann BEST OF DE DANANN Shanachie
" BALLROOM WEA
Tommy Makem & Liam Clancy
THE MAKEM & CLANCY COLLECTION Shanachie
Magical Strings ON THE BURREN Flying Fish
Moving Hearts MOVING HEARTS WEA
The Pogues RED ROSES FOR ME Stiff
" RUM, SODOMY & THE LASH Stiff
" IF I SHOULD FALL FROM GRACE WITH GOD Island
" FAIRYTALE OF NEW YORK [EP] Pogue Mahon
The Pogues & others STRAIGHT TO HELL [movie soundtrack] Enigma
Relativity RELATIVITY Green Linnet
" GATHERING PACE Green Linnet
Tannahill Weavers LAND OF LIGHT Green Linnet
Joemy Wilson CAROLAN'S CUP Dargason Music
And there are others that I haven't picked up yet that I want to,
including Patrick Street, a couple of Silly Wizard's, Christy
Moore's, and at least one other Joemy Wilson.
--- jerry
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