CLADDAGH RECORDS NEWSLETTER March 1997 Claddagh Records, Dame House, Dame Street, Dublin 2, Ireland phone/fax +1-353-1-679-3664. Retail and international mail-order. email claddagh@crl.ie (Finbar Boyle) WHEELS OF THE WORLD. (Volumes 1 and 2). Various. YAZOO 7008/7009. First time on CD for re-issues of classic Irish-American sides of the 1920. Absolutely essential listening from Michael Coleman, James Morrison, Patsy Touhy, Paddy Killoran, Frank Quinn and more. CATHIE RYAN. Cathie Ryan. SHCD 78008. Debut solo album from the former singer with Cherish the Ladies. SONGLINES. Karan Casey. SHCD 78007. Collection of traditional songs from the singer with SOLAS. IRISH VOICES.Various Artists. TSCD702. Compilation from the great Topic singing albums, featuring classic singing from John Reilly, Paddy Tunney, Joe Heaney, Sarah Makem, Sarah Ann O'Neill and others. LIVE! Flook! SmallCD9405. New group composed of some of the very best younger players. The members are Brian Finnegan, Sarah Allen, Michael McGoldrick and Ed Boyd. THE DAWNING OF THE DAY. Finbar & Eddie Furey. BGOCD291. An album from the young Fureys, recorded in 1972. Dance tunes and songs. TRADITIONAL IRISH MUSIC. Delos. DELOS 1. Debut album from a young group featuring fiddle, flute, box, tin whistle, uilleann pipes, bodhran and guitar. A TASTE OF IRELAND. Various Artists. NI 7035. Compilation album from Nimbus of the live concerts from the various festivals in Cork University, featuring Kevin Burke, John Williams, Ciaran Tourish, Seamus Glackin, Tom Doherty, Brendan Ring and others. THE BEST OF ALTAN. Altan. GLCD 1177. Another compilation from the Green Linnet years, with an added CD of the live German sessions which were previously released on the German CD 'Ireland'. Some old recordings have become available to us again after having been missing for many years; THE LARK IN THE MORNING TCD 1001. Liam Clancy, Tommy Makem, Padraig O'Keeffe, Paddy Tunney, Sarah Makem, Denis Murphy, Sean 'Ac Dhonnchadha and more. Recorded at various locations in 1955 and THE CLANCY BROTHERS AND TOMMY MAKEM. TCD 1022. On of their earliest US releases. HUNG UP AND DRIED. Afterhours. CMCD 067. North of England Irish group performing Irish material. IRISH FOLK LEGENDS. VARIOUS ARTISTS. CDC 013. Compilation of 7" single releases - may be worth it for some of the hard-to-get 1960s ones. Includes The Sea Around Us (The Ludlows), Liverpool Lou (Dominic Behan), The Butcher Boy (The Ludlows), Muirsheen Durkan (Johnny McEvoy), The Curragh of Kildare (The Johnstons). CELTIC INSPIRATION - AN IRISH SOUNDSCAPE. CDC 012. This is an album of ambient sounds recorded 'amongst the cathedral, churches, monastic cells, forest and lakes of Glendalough'. It's also accompanied by some rather lame music on fiddle, keyboards and harp.