Irish Tin Sandwich Players
I don't know what kind of an idiot I am - certainly a pretty serious and committed one with a long pedigree of bloopers.
All that stuff about in my last blog and somehow I hadn't realised that Feargal is the same Feargal Scahill who made a brilliant CD called 'A Flying Start' with ace harmonica player Paul Moran a few years back.
I even played tracks on the show, so impressed was I with the musicianship (the mouth music of The Maids of Mont Cisco, in particular) but somehow I never put three and two together and made five. Must be the ale.
Talking of Irish harmonica players I must dig out a CD I have of another ace player, Noel Battle.
Like the Murphy Brothers, he plays in the old style and like them he is a real virtuoso.
He has a solo album out and he also appears on A Blow For Peace - an album chock full of Irish harmonica players which I've been chasing for the last couple of months and so far haven't been able to get my hands on a copy.
But rest assured, gentle reader, this musical sleuth will leave no stone unturned.
Talking of the tin sandwich (as it is sometimes known) check out an album of that title by Tommy Basker the Cape Breton player - a man of great talent. Northumbrian tin sandwich player Will Atkinson also has a CD out - so far, like A Blow For Peace, it has managed to give me the slip. I live in hope.
Comment number 1.
At 10th Jun 2009, mandotwin wrote:Nah Then Mike
Try here for A Blow for Peace
Cheers
Andy Sugden
Complain about this comment (Comment number 1)
Comment number 2.
At 16th Feb 2010, Karen Anderson wrote:The tin sandwich is one of my favorite instruments. Its low cost and very small size adapt it well to class instruction among school children.
Complain about this comment (Comment number 2)