Simply Whistle pretty much does what it says on the tin. For the past five decades Pat Walsh has been part of the north-west traditional music scene and across each of its nineteen tracks this album puts Walsh?s tin whistle and her beautiful jigs, reels and flings centre-stage. Walsh was born to an Irish family in Manchester in the mid 1950s. This beautifully-packaged CD with its informative twelve-page booklet details not only the background to the tunes, both the traditional numbers and original compositions, but also Walsh?s own life story and her abiding love of traditional music. Produced by Mike McGoldrick, who has played alongside Walsh and also features on the album, the production retains a clean and simple feel which works so well. Within seconds of putting the album on Walsh?s evocative playing has immediately transported you to another time and place.
Tracks:
1. The teacake Reel/The bellydancer (Reels) 04:22
2. The Forgotten Fling/Miss Galvins (Flings) 02:48
3. Baby Matthew?s Jig/Emmet?s Hedgehog (Jigs) 02:27
4. Fr. O?Grady?s Trip to Bocca/Sheamus Heneghan?s (Reels) 02:57
5. Humours of Whiskey (slip jig)/Seamus Ennis? Lark in the Morning (Jigs) 03:14
6. Fingal?s Cave (March)/Sporting Paddy/Tie the Bonnet (Reels) 02:58
7. The Pondering jig/Diplodocus (Jigs) 03:53
8. Master McDermott?s/Taylors Fancy (reels) 02:35
9. The Lost jig/The Box Man (jigs) 02:54
10. Claudia?s Waltz 02:58
11. Poolbeg Chimney?s/The Ivy Leaf (reels) 02:31
12. Old Rafferty?s Apple/Rosie?s Wedding (jigs) 02:25
13. The Red Gates/Larry?s Favourite (reels) 03:42
14. The Love of Lucia/Heart Shaped Wood (jigs) 03:14
15. Kissing Cousins/John Sindt?s Favourite (slow reels) 03:55
16. Caoineadh An Spailpin (slow air)/Pass the Baby/John Griffin?s Fancy (jigs) 04:36
17. Eanach Mhic Coilin/The Music Room (reels) 02:32
18. Statia Donnelly?s/Marian?s Trip to Collooney/Humours of Ayle House (jigs) 03:38
19. The Mystery Reel/Naughton?s (reels) 02:17
