Solas Album Vinyl Record

Online only! PRECIOUSLY few Irish bands can compare in both virtuosity and versatility with Solas, a quintet of truly dazzling individual talents. Multiple All-lreland champion Samus Egan plays no fewer than eight instruments, John Williams is a gifted button accordionist and the only American ever to win the coveted All-lreland sen-ior concertina title, Winifred Horan weaves deft classical touches with an earthypassion in her fiddling, Karan Casey possesses a crystalline voice that can soarlike no other, and John Doyle provides faultless guitar rhythms throughout. Butthe sum of Solas is far greater than their impressive parts, combining to producea marvelously spirited and textured sound rich in imagination, innovation, andtradition. They are the most exciting Irish band to emerge in many years - asthis stunning debut album attests. - Earle Hitchner, Irish Echo April 1996

Tracks:

1 Side A NÍL Na LÁ

2 The Flowing Bowl

3 Máire Breathnach's #1

4 The Doon

5 The Mason's Men

6 The Newry Highwayman

7 The White Petticoat

8 Stan Chapmans

9 The Miller's Maggot

10 I Wonder What's Keeping My True

11 Love Tonight

12 The Yellow Tinker

13 Cranking Out

14 Master Crowley's #2

15 Side B Dougie MacDonalds

16 Máirebreathnach's #2

17 The Antrim Rose

18 Atlantic Waves

19 Toss the Feathers

20 Johnny's Gone for a Soldier

21 Gan Ainm

22 The Humours of Whiskey

23 Leslie's March

24 Lament for Frankie

25 Timmy Cliffords

26 The Return Home

27 O'Ot Be Est Da Vong

28 John Joe Caseys