The Best Of The Bothy Band

(2008 re-release of 1983 recording) 12 tracks: Reels: The Salamanca/The Banshee/The Sailor's Bonnet * Song and Reel: Pretty Peg/Craig's Pipes * Air, Set, Dance and Reel: The Blackbird * Reel: The Maids of Mitchelstown * Song: Casadh An tSugain * Reels: Music in the Glen/The Humours of Scariff/The Otter's Holt * Song: Fionnghuala * Jig: Old Hag You Have Killed Me * Song: Do You Love An Apple? * Jig and Reels: Leitrim Fancy/Round the World for Sport/Rip the Calico/Martin's Wynne/The Enchanted Lady/The Holy Land * Song: The Death of Queen Jane * Reels: The Green Groves of Erin/The Flowers of the Red Hill.

Classic tracks - The Bothy Band, along with their contemporaries De Dannan and Planxty, helped define the modern traditional Irish band.

The Best Of The Bothy Band, released four years after the band split up, is a superb introduction to their blend of tradition and innovation that still inspires Celtic musicians.

From ancient ballads, sung by siblings Micheal O'Dhomhnaill and Triona ni Dhomhnaill, to driving sets of dance tunes, played by uilleann piper Paddy Keenan, flutist Matt Molloy, and fiddler Tommy Peoples (and later Kevin Burke), the Bothies could do it all. The rhythmic center of the band was Donal Lunny, who provided the heartbeat on bodhran, bouzouki, and guitar.