Between the Jigs and the Reels: A Retrospective

Recording

CD

• Planxty –,
• The Well Below the Valley –,
• Cold Blow and the Rainy Night –,
• After the Break –,
• The Woman I Loved So Well –,
• Words & Music –

DVD

• Live from The Late Late Show –,
• The Music Makers, Live from the National Stadium –,
• Live from the Abbey Tavern –,
• Live Aisling Gheal Special –,
• Festival Fold, Live from the National Stadium –

  Critical reception

• "The boys are back. This CD/DVD is a timely reminder, 44 years after their debut, of the revolutionary musical imaginations that fuelled Planxty’s music and shaped so much of what has happened since then in the world of traditional music."
• "There is a healthy balance between the show-stoppers and the infinite complexities of the tunes, with plenty of space in between to make room for every listener."
• "The gargantuan DVD, bursting with outtakes from a slew of RTÉ recordings, is a treasure trove, with complementary versions of seminal recordings that will have ally self-respecting trad anoraks comparing and contrasting album and DVD for months."
• "Between the Jigs and the Reels is also striking for the riches of Planxty’s ensemble contributions: all multi-instrumentalists, with three vocalists rambling from the west coast of Clare to the furthest reaches of eastern Europe, propelled by calculus-like rhythms and genteel vocals."

• "Planxty are one of those seminal Irish acts doomed to bask in an aura of reverence while remaining essentially obscure to all but a tiny subset of the listening public."
• "A new overview of their accomplishments, may go towards restoring the group to the prominence folk purists agree they deserve."

• "This wonderful and impressively assembled collection tells the story of a morphing ensemble of musicians, songwriters, collectors, arrangers, and singers with a mutual lust for the discovery of music from different times and different places. The songs and tunes they collected and arranged, including everything from soft introverted ballads to whirling regional fiddle tunes, from haunting airs to skittering Balkan jams, all somehow made sense within this unique narrative of traditional and folk music they had sculpted and named Planxty."
• "This package of Planxty music is an arduously-curated goldmine of recordings, TV appearances and live sets that both the band and their fans deserve. Delve in. Lose yourself in it."

  Track listing

CD

1. "True Love Knows No Season " – 5:29
2. "Pat Reilly" – 3:15
3. "Sí Bheag, Sí Mhór" – 3:33
4. "Follow Me Up to Carlow" – 2:20
5. "Băneasă's Green Glade"/"Mominsko Horo" / – 5:48
6. "Aconry Lasses"/"The Old Wheels Of The World"/"The Spike Island Lasses" – 3:32
7. "The Pursuit Of Farmer Michael Hayes" – 6:10
8. "Accidentals"/"Aragon Mill" / – 6:02
9. "The Irish Marche" – 3:37
10. "The Rambling Siúler" – 4:19
11. "The Well Below the Valley" – 5:30
12. "Junior Crehan's Favourite/Corney is Coming" – 2:36
13. "Roger O'Hehir" – 5:33
14. "Smeceno Horo" – 4:32
15. "The West Coast of Clare" – 5:30
16. "Nancy Spain" – 3:32
17. Timedance:
18. :a. "The Humours of Barrack Street" – 1:30
19. :b. "Isercleran" – 2:35
20. :c. "Ballymun Regatta" – 2:25

    DVD

1. "The Blacksmith"/"Blacksmithereens"
2. "Three Drunken Maidens"/"The Foxhunter's Reel"
3. "When First Unto This Country"
4. "Sweet Thames Flow Softly"
5. "The Gold Ring"
6. "Hey! Sandy"
7. "Kitty Gone A Milkiing/Music Of The Forge"
8. "Only Our Rivers"
9. "Raggle Taggle Gypsy/Tabhair Dom Do Lámh"
10. "Three Drunken Maidens"/"The Foxhunter's Reel"
11. "The Good Ship Kangaroo"
12. "Ride A Mile/Hardiman The Fiddler/The Yellow Wattle"
13. "The Hackler From Grouse Hall"
14. "An Bonnán Buí/The West Wind"
15. "The Jolly Beggar/The Wise Maid"
16. "Sally Brown"
17. "Bean Pháidin"/"Rakish Paddy"
18. "Little Musgrave"
19. "East At Glendart/Brian O'Lynn/Pay The Reckoning"
20. "The Lady On The Island/The Gatehouse Maid/The Virginia/Callaghan's"
21. "As I Roved Out "
22. "Smeceno Horo"
23. "Johnny of Brady's Lea"
24. "The Pullet/The Ladies Pantalettes"
25. "I Pity The Poor Immigrant"
26. "Arthur McBride"
27. "True Love Knows No Season "
28. Timedance:
29. :a. "The Humours of Barrack Street"
30. :b. "Isercleran"
31. :c. "Ballymun Regatta"
32. "You Rambling Boys Of Pleasure"
33. "The Good Ship Kangaroo"
34. "Táimse Im' Chodladh"
35. "Thousands Are Sailing"
36. "Queen Of The Rushes"/"Paddy Fay's"
37. "Little Musgrave"
38. "The Scholar/The Chattering Magpie/Lord McDonald's/The Virginia/Callaghan's"
39. "Cliffs of Dooneen"

    Personnel

• Christy Moore – vocals, guitar, bodhrán, keyboard
• Andy Irvine – vocals, mandolin, mandola, bouzouki, harmonica, hurdy-gurdy
• Dónal Lunny – bouzouki, guitars, bodhrán, vocals
• Liam O'Flynn – uilleann pipes, tin whistles
• Matt Molloy – flute
• Bill Whelan – keyboards
• Noel Hill – concertina
• Tony Linnane : fiddle
• Nollaig Casey – fiddle
• James Kelly – fiddle
• Paul McAteer – Drums
• John Drummond – Bass
• Mike Nolan, Benny McNeill, Davy Martin, John Tate and Jack Boyle – Brass Section
• Audrey Park: Concert Mistress

• Christy Moore – vocals, guitar, bodhrán, keyboard
• Andy Irvine – vocals, mandolin, mandola, bouzouki, harmonica, hurdy-gurdy
• Dónal Lunny – bouzouki, guitars, bodhrán, vocals
• Liam O'Flynn – uilleann pipes, tin whistles

  Charts