Miko, Pakie and Gussie Russell of Dolin, Co Clare, were an Irish musical family of singular attractiveness and interest, with aremarkably rich store of local Clare music. This record was recorded on location by John Tams and Neil Wayne in 1977, and is an exceptional document of the traditional music making still to be heard in the Irish countryside during the mid-1970s.
1 Campbell’s Reel
2 The Heather Breeze / The Traveller
3 St. Kevin of Glendalough
4 The Potlick / The Peeler’s Jacket
5 The Five Mile Chase
6 Russell’s Hornpipe / Fisher’s Hornpipe
7 The Poor Little Fisher Boy
8 The Walls of Liscarroll / The Battering Ram
9 Garret Barry’s Reel
10 Tommy Glenny’s Reel
11 The Connemara Stockings / The Westmeath Hunt
12 When Musheen Went to Bunnan
13 Tatter Jack Walsh
14 The De’il Among the Tailors
15 The Roscrea Cows
16 Fair Haired Boy / The Black Haired Lass
17 Off to California
18 Give the Girl her Fourpence
19 Nora Daly
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