Planxty

And then there's three others from this list, which I suppose come showing your love of Irish music.

Horslips the Tain, Planxty the Well, or sorry, The Well Below the Valley and Seamus Ennis, The Wandering Minstrel.

Yeah, I suppose there's loads of...

To be honest, there's countless Irish albums that I listen to.

But I feel like when you listen to Seamus Ennis, it's...

it feels really powerful energy-wise, you know.

But then, like, Planxty and Horslips both took what was, you know, considered some, like, traditional music or elements of traditional music and they made them their own things, like, and, like, obviously Planxty totally changed Irish music and even Irish traditional music forever, kind of, you know, even, even bouzoukis and mandolins being played with pipes and, like, the the songs mixed with tunes so much that they've done was amazing like but em that Tán album from Horslips the fact that it's all it's all written based on the story on Tán Bó Cunha which is like a Irish mythology story that is based around Dundalk as well but em Every song in that album is about this story that's thousands of years old.

And the fact that they could make Jarek Doom, which became a massive tune during the World Cup years ago.

Yeah.

And yet, Planxty used them.

Yeah.

And you know how wrong they were into closing their minds.

What I loved about this, Donal Lunny is on it, obviously, with the bouzouki.

I got a real bang of Planxty off it.

Maybe it's because of Lunny's bouzouki that came through in it.

Yeah, I mean, I'm a huge fan of Planxty.

I'm a massive fan, right, of them.

And, you know, so for me, having Donal play on the record, and I love the bothy band and I love...

My mom's a music teacher and my dad sings and plays guitar.

So I would have grown up hearing like Planxty, Christy Moore.

My dad's a huge fan of those.

So yeah, somewhat trad adjacent at least.

So I think that definitely had an influence on how I started playing and singing.

So those influences, as I've heard you talk about, they were bands like Planxty and people like Christy Moore.

What did that mean to you growing up? I mean, how important has Irish folk music been in shaping your musical identity as it's gone on?

Yeah, I mean, I think it's always been there.

Mary

Black, a lot of, you know, Planxty,

the Eagles,

Eagles

Before Skarda Glenn, we had Michael Piper Cooney, Sean Ryan's reel, from his 1995 cassette-only release, Tunes from the Village, this week's closet classic.

We've heard music from Christy Moore recently, both solo and with Planxty, and we'll now hear his post-Planxty band, Moving Hearts, albeit from 1985, after Christy had left the group.

We'll go to the last of their three records, The Storm, which features Donald Lunney on Bazooki, Davy Spillan and Declan Masterson on Ill and Pipes, and Keith Donald on sax, along with a full rock rhythm section.

From that record, we'll hear Tribute to Potter O'Donnell.

And then somehow it just, the trad stuff sort of wound its way in.

I do remember, you know, at some point I heard the Bothy Band, at some point I heard Planxty and then I listened again and was like, yeah, there's something here, this is good.

But there wasn't, yeah, there wasn't just like... one moment where I really got it.

And at some point, you look back years later and go, wow, I'm spending all my time playing traditional Irish music.

And then my dad introduced me to Moving Hearts.

He introduced me to Planxty.

And then I was like, oh my God, this is amazing.

And that was my first real introduction to Irish traditional music.