The Clancy Brothers - Best Of The Vanguard Years ( AUDIO CD 01-25-2000 )

Recorded a dozen years after the Clancy Brothers made their American splash via an appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show, this best-of set isn't a hits retrospective in the conventional sense. Rather, it offers a generous selection of group favorites and Irish staples recorded in 1973 for a single album. That initial Greatest Hits reappears here in its 24-song entirety and is fleshed out with four previously unreleased selections. Nearly 75 minutes long, the album presents a generous sampling of robustly delivered odes to drinking, sparking, roving, and rebelling. The nature of Irish music has broadened in the wake of the Clancys, but these lads have never been bested when it comes to traditional tunes delivered with beer-spilling gusto.

CONDITION: NEW

TRACK LISTING

1. Maid of Fife-E-O
2. Jug of Punch
3. Gallant Forty TWA
4. Whistling Gypsy
5. The Leaving of Liverpool
6. Real Old Mountain Dew
7. The Nightingale
8. Roddy McCorley
9. Castle of Dromore
10. Father's Grave
11. Johnny McEldoo
12. The Irish Rover
13. Old Woman from Wexford
14. Bonnie Charlie
15. The Jolly Tinker
16. Haul Away Joe
17. The Shoals of Herring
18. The Mermaid
19. Kelly, the Boy from Killanne
20. Rosin the Bow
21. Whiskey Is the Life of Man
22. MacPherson's Lament
23. Whiskey, You're the Devil
24. Holy Ground
25. The Wild Colonial Boy
26. Johnson's Motor Car
27. Reilys's Daughter
28. Finnegan's Wake