Whatever Tickles Your Fancy

Whatever Tickles Your Fancy
Studio album by Christy Moore
Released	1975
Studio	Ashling Studio, Rathgar
Genre	Folk
Length	38:56
Label	Polydor
Producer	Dónal Lunny
Christy Moore chronology

Last updated April 29, 2019

Whatever Tickles Your Fancy is the third solo album by Irish folk musician Christy Moore, released in 1975.^[1]

Folk music includes traditional folk music and the genre that evolved from it during the 20th-century folk revival. Some types of folk music may be called world music. Traditional folk music has been defined in several ways: as music transmitted orally, music with unknown composers, or music performed by custom over a long period of time. It has been contrasted with commercial and classical styles. The term originated in the 19th century, but folk music extends beyond that.

Christy Moore Irish folk singer, songwriter, and guitarist

Christopher Andrew "Christy" Moore is an Irish folk singer, songwriter and guitarist. He is one of the founding members of Planxty and Moving Hearts. His first album, Paddy on the Road was recorded with Dominic Behan in 1969. In 2007, he was named as Ireland's greatest living musician in RTÉ's People of the Year Awards.

Since his last album Prosperous in 1972, Christy had recorded three albums with Planxty. He left Planxty soon after, only to realise he had no profile as a solo artist in Ireland. Through playing with Jimmy Faulkner, Declan McNelis, and later Kevin Burke, they soon started to form the basis for an album recording.

Planxty is an Irish folk music band formed in January 1972, consisting initially of Christy Moore, Andy Irvine, Dónal Lunny, and Liam O'Flynn. They transformed and popularized Irish folk music, touring and recording to great acclaim.

Jimmy Faulkner was one of Ireland's top guitarists, who in a four-decade career played with many of Ireland's leading rock and roll, blues, folk and jazz musicians.

The album was recorded in Ashling Studios in Rathgar.

Rathgar, originally a village, from 1862 part of the township Rathmines and Rathgar, in 1930 became a suburb of Dublin, Ireland. It lies about 3 kilometres south of the city centre.

Track listing

All tracks are Traditional compositions, arranged by Christy Moore; except where indicated

"Home by Barna"
"January Man" (Dave Goulder)
"The Moving on Song (Go! Move! Shift!)" (Ewan McColl)
"Bunch of Thyme"
"Tippin' it Up to Nancy"
"The Ballad of Timothy Evans" (Ewan McColl, Peggy Seeger)
"Who Put the Blood"
"One Last Cold Kiss" (Felix Pappalardi, Gail Collins)
"Trip to Roscoff" (Christy Moore)
"Van Diemen's Land" (Traditional; arranged by Christy Moore and Dónal Lunny)

Personnel

Christy Moore – vocals, guitar, sleeve design
Jimmy Faulkner – electric and acoustic guitars
Dónal Lunny – guitar, bouzouki, bodhrán, Moog synthesizer, vocals
Declan McNelis – bass
Kevin Burke – fiddle
Robbie Brennan – drums

Dónal Lunny Irish musician and record producer

Dónal Lunny is an Irish folk musician and producer. He plays left-handed guitar and bouzouki, as well as keyboards and bodhrán. As a founding member of popular bands Planxty, The Bothy Band, Moving Hearts, Coolfin, Mozaik, LAPD, and Usher's Island, he has been at the forefront of the renaissance of Irish traditional music for over five decades.

Kevin Burke is an Irish master fiddler considered one of the finest living Irish fiddlers. For nearly four decades he has been at the forefront of Irish traditional music and Celtic music, performing and recording with the seminal groups The Bothy Band, Patrick Street, and the Celtic Fiddle Festival.

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References

↑ Larkin, C. (1997). The Virgin Encyclopedia of Eighties Music. Virgin Encyclopedias of Popular Music Series. Virgin. p. 328. ISBN 978-0-7535-0159-7 . Retrieved 6 July 2018.

External links

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[Larkin_1997-1] Larkin, C. (1997). The Virgin Encyclopedia of Eighties Music. Virgin Encyclopedias of Popular Music Series. Virgin. p. 328. ISBN 978-0-7535-0159-7 . Retrieved 6 July 2018.