Think Before You Think

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Album: Think Before You Think
#	Song Title		Time
1)	Are You Ready Yet?/The Tailor's Thimble/Donoghue's Reel/I'm Ready Now	More Info...	0:04
2)	Green Brooms/The Humours of Kill Clougher	More Info...	0:03
3)	The Old Ruined Cottage in the Glen/The Morning Dew/Think Before You Think Before You Speak/The First Month of Spring	More Info...	0:04
4)	Paddy Rainey's Jig/Johnny Leary's/Winnie Hayes'	More Info...	0:04
5)	Fair and Tender Ladies	More Info...	0:04
6)	Peggy's Nettles/The Butlers of Glen Avenue/The Mountain Top	More Info...	0:03
7)	The Cameron Highlander/The Blackthorn Stick	More Info...	0:04
8)	An Páistín Fionn	More Info...	0:04
9)	The Peeler's Jacket/The Millner's Daughter	More Info...	0:03
10)	The Outlandish Knight	More Info...	0:04
11)	Dinny O'Brien's/Tommy Peoples/ The Small Hills of Offaly	More Info...	0:03
12)	Banish Misfortune/Trip to Athlone/Trim the Velvet	More Info...	0:04
13)	Eochaill	More Info...	0:05

Album: Think Before You Think
#	Song Title		Time
1)	Are You Ready Yet?/The Tailor's Thimble/Donoghue's Reel/I'm Ready Now	More Info...	0:04
2)	Green Brooms/The Humours of Kill Clougher	More Info...	0:03
3)	The Old Ruined Cottage in the Glen/The Morning Dew/Think Before You Think Before You Speak/The First Month of Spring	More Info...	0:04
4)	Paddy Rainey's Jig/Johnny Leary's/Winnie Hayes'	More Info...	0:04
5)	Fair and Tender Ladies	More Info...	0:04
6)	Peggy's Nettles/The Butlers of Glen Avenue/The Mountain Top	More Info...	0:03
7)	The Cameron Highlander/The Blackthorn Stick	More Info...	0:04
8)	An Páistín Fionn	More Info...	0:04
9)	The Peeler's Jacket/The Millner's Daughter	More Info...	0:03
10)	The Outlandish Knight	More Info...	0:04
11)	Dinny O'Brien's/Tommy Peoples/ The Small Hills of Offaly	More Info...	0:03
12)	Banish Misfortune/Trip to Athlone/Trim the Velvet	More Info...	0:04
13)	Eochaill	More Info...	0:05

Performer Notes

Danu includes: Cairan O'Gealbhain (vocals); Noel Ryan (guitar); Eamon Doorley (bouzouki, mandola); Jesse Smith (fiddle, viola); Donnchadh Gough (Uilleannn pipes, bodhran); Tom Doorley (flute, low whistle); Brenden McCarthy (button accordion).
Additional personnel: Garry O'Briain (mando-cello, keyobards); Bruno Staehlin (congas).
Recorded in January and September 1999. Includes liner notes by Earle Hitchner.
The sophomore effort from this very young Irish band is one of the best traditional folk albums to come out this year; not since the early work of Altan has a new group sounded this fresh and exciting. Danu draws almost exclusively from traditional sources, but its members aren't afraid to mess around with tradition when it pleases them (throwing, for example, the occasional contrapuntal harmony line into the mix on the reel "I'm Ready Now"), nor is their playing bogged down by earnest folkie reverence. Bodhran player Donnchadh Gough is especially creative, holding the pulse down firmly, yet varying his rhythmic and timbral approach widely from tune to tune. Singer Ciaran O Gealbhain is underused, appearing only on a few tracks, some of which are among the album's best. His singing on "Green Brooms" and "An Paistin Fionn" is gently lovely, and he even manages to breathe new life into as tired a song as "Fair and Tender Ladies," which is one of this disc's highlights. The instrumental sets are also uniformly excellent. Highly recommended. ~ Rick Anderson

Professional Reviews

CMJ (3/20/00, p.32) - "...Danu adheres to a more time-honored, traditional approach [to Irish music]....the youth of the group enables them to play their fiddles, accordions and pipes with an awful lot of zest and vigor."

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