Christy Moore - "Whatever Tickles Your Fancy" 1975

First post from Spain! My laptop is all set up in my new [temporary] home. So here's a good one for you, in a similar vein to where we left off....

Christy Moore - Whatever Tickles Your Fancy
Polydor, 1975

















Christy Moore-- an excellent singer-songwriter from Ireland, the man responsible for organizing the legendary Irish folk band Planxty. He also has a successful solo career, a bit less traditional-oriented than Planxty, with more rock influences. A beautiful melding of traditional folk, Celtic, singer-songwriter, and folk rock sensibilities. You know it can be nothing but beautiful if the boys from Planxty had anything to do with it (and they did).

"Whatever Tickles Your Fancy, Christy Moore's third album was his first after his first departure from Planxty, in the mid-'70s. Perhaps feeling a bit as if he should try to please all folk factions, the LP was divided into an acoustic side ("Tippin' It Up to Nancy," in fact, features nothing but his voice and bodhran) and an electric one. Rearrangements of traditional material dominated the song list, although it also included a couple of Ewan MacColl tunes and, most surprisingly, a cover of Mountain's "One Last Cold Kiss." Whatever approach was used, he was an effective interpreter of traditional numbers, or work that was traditional in style (even "One Last Cold Kiss," after all, was based on a Nantucket legend). The electric side was very much in the British fiddle-electric guitar folk-rock style pioneered by Fairport Convention, the most notable cuts being "The Ballad of Timothy Evans" and the eight-minute closer, "Van Diemen's Land." "
-Richie Unterberger, All Music Guide

Christy Moore: vocals, guitar, bodhran
Robbie Brennan: drums
Donal Lunny: guitar, bouzouki, bodhran, moog, vocals
Jimmy Faulkner: guitars
Declan McNelis: bass, guitar
Kevin Burke: fiddle



















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