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The Long Black Veil
The Chieftains

RCA 74321 251676 2
(Released 1995)

  1. Mo Ghile Mear - "Our Hero" with Sting (3:22)
  2. The Long Black Veil with Mick Jagger (3:38)
  3. The Foggy Dew with Sinèad O'Connor (5:20)
  4. Have I Told You Lately That I Love You? with Van Morrison (4:40)
  5. Changing Your Demeanour (3:16)
  6. The Lily Of The West with Mark Knopfler (5:10)
  7. Coast of Malabar with Ry Cooder (6:01)
  8. Dunmore Lassies (Instrumental) with Ry Cooder (5:14)
  9. Love Is Teasin' with Marianne Faithfull (4:36)
  10. He Moved Through The Fair with Sinèad O'Connor (4:54)
  11. Ferny Hill (Instrumental) (3:43)
  12. Tennessee Waltz / Tennessee Mazurka with Tom Jones (3:58)
  13. The Rocky Road To Dublin with the Rolling Stones (5:06)
    Total time: (58:59)

The Chieftains:
Martin Fay, Sean Keane, Kevin Conneff, Matt Molloy, Paddy, Moloney, Derek Bell

Producer: Paddy Moloney tracks 2, 13 with Chris Kimsey and track 7 with Ry Cooder.

Review by Geoffrey Himes:
The Long Black Veil (UK) cover Over the years this Irish folk band has recorded with James Galway, Roger Daltrey, Nanci Griffith, Elvis Costello, Willie Nelson, and many more. For The Long Black Veil, they made their biggest haul yet: the Rolling Stones, Van Morrison, Marianne Faithfull, Mark Knopfler, Sinead O'Connor, Tom Jones, Sting, and Ry Cooder. Knopfler, Faithfull, and O'Connor wander off-key in their vocals. Sting, Jones, and Mick Jagger stay on key in theirs, but never quite connect with their chosen songs nor with the ancient folk tradition the Chieftains tap into each time they play. A powerful musical connection is forged three times on the album, however. Morrison patiently builds his own "Have I Told You Lately That I Love You?" to a grand climax over flute and pipes; Ry Cooder adds a mysterious Mideastern guitar part to an instrumental version of "Dunmore Lasses;" and on "The Rocky Road to Dublin," Charlie Watts's ceili-swing drumming holds together a loose adventurous jam session which features Kevin Coneff's lead vocal and wild exchanges of the Chieftains' twin fiddles and the Rolling Stones' guitars. Three epiphanies may not be enough to justify the Long Black Veil project, but you can find a whole album of such moments on Van Morrison & the Chieftains' 1988 Irish Heartbeat, one of the greatest Irish recordings ever made.

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