MATT PAUL TOMMY MOLLOY • RRADY • PEOPLED

LUN 017

□ IME blurrs my memory of place and time when I think of Peoples and Molloy, when I remember their presence in small places of nights gone quickly by. It seemed to me

as if they stood up out of the very ground, inserting their warm presence and their violent music into our space and hour. Peoples’ dark eyes and darker face seemed at those times to me to penetrate the brown wood of the fiddle as his thick and stained fingers tore tender notes with the bow. Molloy, profile to him and to my silent eye, blew into the black timber flute, eyes unfocussed on the ground, gaunt and bent fingers rising and falling in muscular waves over the flute’s small black holes. All else was in shadow to me-stools, faces, bottles, smoke.

They come back to me on soft evenings with their music, and their charm has stayed with me under all the years I’ve known

them.

r MATT vTOLLOY •

PAUL RRADY-

TOMMY PEOPLES

Side A

1 Matt Peoples (Reels)

2 The Creel of Turf/Tom Billys (Jigs)

3 The Crosses of Annagh/McFaddens Handsome Daughter (Reels)

4 The Newport Lass/The Rambling Pitchfork (Jigs)

5 Shamrock Shore (Song)

6 Munster Buttermilk/The Connachtman’s Rambles (Jigs)

7 Speed the Plough/Toss the Feathers (Reels)

I learned the song Shamrock Shore from Dublin singer Frank Harte. It most probably dates from

around 1850 and is unusual in that it isn’t a ‘party song’ (to use the Northern euphemism) but an objective, hard and astute commentary on the state of the nation during the first 50 years of the last century. It ends with a plea to Irishmen to settle their differences for the common good, a plea that falls on deaf ears 100 years later.

Paul Brady.

I hear them now on this faithful record, wondering how to praise music that has moved me so often in dark times. So I will not praise;

I tell you of their faces and hands instead...

Many have sat in accompaniment with them, and perhaps none better than Paul Brady, whose guitar is here heard well.

I wrote this note for their record, which will accompany my solitary thoughts in times distant: Peoples, Molloy, Brady; Tommy, Matt and Paul.

Please listen. Tony MacMahon.

SideB

1 The Limerick Lasses/The Foxhunters (Reels)

2 Mick Finns/The Blackthorn (Reels)

3 Fergal O’Gara/The Cloon (Reels)

4 Mulqueeney’s/Out in the Ocean (Hompipe/Jig)

5 The Rainy Day/The Grand Canal (Reels)

6 The Scotsman over the Border/The Killavil (Jigs)

7 John Brennans (Silver Spire)/Drag Her Round the Road (Reels)

8 The Graf Spee (Reel)

All tracks recorded at Eamonn Andrews Studios, Dublin, Feb. 1977, engineered by Brian Masterson and produced by Donal Lunny; except A5 and 6, B3 recorded in Dublin Sound Studios, Oct. 1977, engineered by Pat Morley and produced by Donal Lunny; and B4 recorded at Trend Studios, Nov. 1977, engineered by Paul Waldron and produced by Paul Brady.

Thanks to Breandan Breathnach for assistance in identifying the titles of tunes for this album, and special thanks to Peter Browne.

Cover photography, design and artwork by Willy Matthews.

Mulligan Music Ltd., 101 Templeogue Road, Dublin 6, Ireland.

Printed in the Republic of Ireland.

® Mulligan Music 1978. © Mulligan Music 1978.

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PEOPLES

1. Matt Peoples Reels (Trad. Arr. Peoples, Molloy, Brady)

2. The Creel of Turf/ Tom Billy's (Trad. Arr. Peoples, Molloy, Brady)

3. The Crosses of Annagh/McFadden’s Handsome Daughter (Trad. Arr. Molloy, Brady)

4. The Newport Lass/The Rambling Pitchfork (Trad. Arr. Peoples, Brady)

5. The Shamrock Shore (Trad. i Arr. Brady) M

6. Munster Buttermilk/The Connachtsman's Rambles (Trad. Arr. Peoples, Molloy)

7. Speed The Plough/ Toss The Feathers (Trad. Arr. Peoples, -■ Molloy, Brady)

LUNO17 SIDE 2,

(1-8) Mulligan Music

1. The Limerick Lasses/ The Foxhunters (Trad. Arr. Peoples, Molloy,

2. Mick^inns/The Blackthorn (Trad. Arr. Molloy. Brady)

O'Gara/The Cloon (Trad, pies, Molloy Brady) eney's/Out In The Ocean rr. Peoples, Molloy)

MATT MOLLOY/PAIJL—

BRADY/TOMMY PEOPLES