Celtic Fingerstyle Guitar, Vol. 1: Ramble to Cashel (1998)

About this title: This disc is the first in a two-volume survey of modern fingerstyle (as opposed to flatpicking) guitarists who specialize in arrangements of traditional Irish and Scots tunes; for each disc, there is a companion videotape of the same title available separately. The videotape includes complete notation of all the arrangements in tabulature and traditional notation. Volume 1 is perhaps the more consistently satisfying of the two discs, but that may be an illusion based on the appearance at the very beginning of three unbelievably sumptuous performances by uber-guitarist Martin Simpson. His ... read more

Tracks:

1. Medley: Believe Me If All These Endearing/Young Charms/Waters of Tyne [Traditional]
2. Sheperd's Delight [Traditional]
3. Lowlands of Holland [Traditional]
4. Bony Crossing the Alps [Traditional]
5. Ramble to Cashel [Traditional]
6. Cullen Bay [Traditional]
7. Murtagh McKann [Traditional]
8. Flamorgan Air [Traditional]
9. Medley: Merrily Kissed the Quaker/Culna [Traditional]
10. The Duke of Fife's Welcome to Deeside [Traditional]
11. The Golden Keyboard [Traditional]
12. The Faerie Queen [Traditional]
13. Planxty Kelly [Traditional]
14. Hardiman the Fiddler [Traditional]
15. The Butterfly [Traditional]
16. Banish Misfortune [Traditional]
17. Morgan Magan [Traditional]
18. Fanny Power [Traditional]
19. Chase the Weasel [Traditional]
20. Finn MacCool's Reel [Traditional]
21. Danny Boy [Weatherly]
22. Star of the County Down [Traditional]

Note: This is a general synopsis. Each listing is further described below.