Drunken Landlady - The Bothy Band circa 1977

[@ibassnote]

Each musician is so brilliant and all of them are really working together. No one is showboating in any way. Everyone playing for the greater good. And what a sound....

[@wildbill3638]

One evening, over 40 years ago, Michael,the guitar player from the Bothy Band, showed up at my buddies place, on the coast, with a jug of Hungarian wine, and his guitar, and the three of us drank wine, played and sung tunes, until about 3 in the morning, and one of those nights that rarely happen in a lifetime. RIPMichael

[@mikeo3177]

One of Ireland's most exciting bands ever. they didn't just play music, they gave it life

[@rahang4126]

Quite agree, I've always been a great fan of this band.

[@runeulriksen]

The Bothy Band's third album, from which this set starts off with, was my introduction to Paddy Keenan's wild style of playing. The tunes are: the morning star, the fisherman's lilt, and the drunken landlady. The fisherman's lilt appears twice, first in the key of C, and to finish off, in the key of D. Their 3rd album, Out of the wind into the sun, is still my favourite album till this day. But the rest of their recordings are also magnificent! They certainly left their mark on irish music, that's for sure!! Brilliant, just brilliant!!

[@wallyabb]

Michael is still with us forever!!!!I I´m plaiyng his parts and i feel very honoured. I´m from ARgentina. Long live the bothies!!!! my band is calles DOLAVON!

[@KelticTim]

If you’re from Argentina why play this style of music? I could see German, but not this

[@michaelstaadt8012]

@@KelticTim For one, there is quite a sizeable German expat community in Argentinia, for another, why not play beautiful music regardeless where you're from. I am from Germany and started playing the Uilleann Pipes the year this was recorded.

[@KelticTim]

@@michaelstaadt8012 gee, I wonder why I would question highlighting anything German coming out of Argentina? I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt, are you aware of how those Germans got there? It’s not cause they like the food. Anything and everything German coming out of Argentina should be spoke of in very, very hushed tones, probably better to not acknowledge it at all.

[@michaelstaadt8012]

@@KelticTim I am quite aware of that ( how could I not, I'm German) but the misconception that emigration of Germans to Argentinia happened only after WW II is common but nontheless wrong. Actually it started in the 1850's with it's peak in the 1870's. Around 1936 there was an influx of Germans into Argentinia, who fled from Nazi Germany and a community of around 40.000 German Jews. One learns every day, doesn't one.

[@KelticTim]

@@michaelstaadt8012 given the relationship Hitler had with the Argentinian govt, why would Germans flee Hitler, and the call home to fight, to a place that Hitler could reach out and punish them for it? I’m not saying you’re wrong or misinformed, I’m just curious to the logic of that. There’s no chance, imo, knowing what we know about Hitler and how he treated those he felt were disloyal to Germany, that he would allow them to live there without punishing them, and the Argentinian govt would’ve only been happy to help. Especially the Jewish Germans. It just doesn’t make sense. Why wouldn’t they flee to America or Canada?

[@richgouette]

Donal. always smiling... always awesome Paddy..the master...

[@MarisaDwyer]

Muck Connell, you have immaculately created the best playlist of all time. I never would have heard half of the best music if I'd stuck to my records, tapes, CDs..I'm such a backwards old fogey that I didn't get the magic of KZbin until I randomly found you. You basically have saved a person's life and that person is boundlessly grateful. Whoever you are, I salute ❤

[@mr.crighton9491]

Bothy Band in their only appearance at Madame Tussaud's wax museum!!! Some of those wax figures even had a little movement to them.

[@misstinwhistle1]

Timeless. Who could not love this?! Fantastic!

[@infledermaus]

I've heard a lot of Irish music, but these guys remind me of a 100 wild horses racing over the plains with their names flailing in the wind. I've been listening to them since I found a CD of theirs in 1987. Their sound is so powerful. They are like an Irish music rock band if such a thing can exist.

[@Thaumazo83]

I know and love the Chieftains, early Clannad, Planxty and other bands that did the revival of Irish folk in the Seventies, but the sound of these guys is unparalleled, I agree with you. It's like the charge of the Rohirrim in front of Minas Tirith: an unstoppable might.

[@Kitiwake]

I recommend The Kilfenora céilí band also.

[@Thaumazo83]

Go Paddy, make those pipes sing! 💪🏾✊🏾

[@kieranmccarthy871]

1:22 when The Drunken Landlady kicks in, utter magic

[@michaeldineen8324]

This is marvellous.I love it when they play the fisherman's lilt in the higher key to finish. The speed at which they played also impressed me.

[@philipcroft2236]

It's like pouring double cream out of a pitcher that never ends. Pure gold.

[@kevo32a]

The Morning Star, The Fisherman's Lilt and The Drunken Landlady. the first track on the "out of the wind into the sun" album. great track and great vid. thnx for sharing.

[@shawnblood4647]

For 5 years they were a great irish band

[@andreacolle2107]

I migliori! Bravissimi!!!!! Ma come fa la gente lì presente a restare ferma?

[@billygaughan1670]

One of my all time favourite trad bands. Donal luny is still pushing Irish trad music forward. Brilliant.

[@morganfreeman5171]

The bothy band, as good as it gets !

[@smike09100]

I played the grooves off my LP on this song, back in the 70's, and it still sounds just as good. Thanks for this!

[@doolinmusic]

Many a great night spent at the Merryman in Scarriff listening to the Bothy Band. Session usually went on late in to the night with guest appearances from Dr. Bill Loughnane. Great memories, great musicians.

[@Rugby0747]

I was fortunate enough to them performing in Dublin a long time ago!

[@of53rd]

the keyboard adds a nice unique touch that I 'reelly' like. Great job!

[@DeLuciaNWhistler]

Paddy Keenan is god, and in this video and others of the 70s is like Michael Myers playing pipes. The possessed piper. I really admire the bothy band, especially to Mr. Keenan and Mr. Molloy, someday me and my soul will visit Ireland. Thanks for the video.

[@tribchb]

No. Tunes in order are The Morning Star, The Sailor's Bonnet, The Drunken Landlady, and The Sailor's Bonnet again to reprise.

[@bdmac100]

The very best altogether like.

[@greenviolist34]

Whatever your taste in music. Can we not for, just a moment, revel in the rare perfection of a live performance.

[@JuliaR60]

Beautiful. Thank you. Loved Bothy band sinds discovering them many year’s ago

[@darkfey1963]

WOW! I was familiar with Matt Molloy from listening to the Chieftains;I hadn'd heard anything from The Bothy Band-now I see(hear!) what I was missing,Thank you for sharing this,it's fantastic!

[@deeppurple883]

Excellent 👌🏻👏🏼

[@AnVeidhleadoir]

I love during the middle tune, as the camera pans around the fort, you can see the older musicians looking on, enjoying it, cos it is good music.

[@suurnarr]

Absolutely marvellous! If all drunken landladies could leave such trace in music history :)

[@alexmorris452]

One of the top bands

[@bronamcvittie]

Love that clavinet! The landlady must live on ;+)

[@Jenxxie]

Holy Cr*p ! ... weren't the 'Bothies' just the absolute dog's danglies, of all the various incarnations of a fairly small group of fine irish musicians... De Dannan & Planxty were great, but the Bothy Band had something else ! Wicked !

[@bl44378]

Yeah .... I was wondering about the fiddle too - but say no more lol - great tunes and great footage bilko tks.

[@philipcroft2236]

Look at Donal the hippy!

[@suurnarr]

Wonderful! This is one of my favourite Irish tune rentitions ever...

[@josefgiven]

Thanks for posting these treasures.

[@SaorEire]

Celtic Folkweave is amazing! I'm glad to see someone else who has heard it!

[@PhalainaBelgium]

Fantastic concert !! Thanks for posting ! Phalaina

[@rakutzimbel4539]

Wow, great music!

[@metalpiper]

I wish I had know of this music 31 years ago...I would be a much better uilleann piper for sure. I've heard the tunes a thousand times but to see them in action 31 years ago is astonishing.....so fluent and effortless....AMAZING!

[@TheMattyMarlow]

Fantastic stuff xx

[@AlekseyK]

I love "the morning star" absolutely my fav !!

[@liamg353]

True for you, there were quite a lot of good groups in the 60s/70s, i.e. De Dannan, Clannad (still going) Planxty, The Bothy band, Stocktons Wings,Altan to name but a few and of course The Chieftains thankfully still going.

[@Lorri555]

absolutely brilliant! timeless!

[@AnVeidhleadoir]

I love from 1:54 onward where the camera pans around the fort like structure with all eyes on The Bothy Band!

[@LateralZoot]

RIP Micheál

[@verandi3882]

quite captivating

[@pascalcharpentier5682]

super !!!

[@8chevalier8]

As Joe Cooley said, "Irish music is the only music that brings people to their senses!"

[@frankG335]

Joe Cooley was my fiddle teacher's mentor and teacher! Nice to see him mentioned. Cáit Reed was arguably the best Irish fiddler in America. She had the "nyah", the pure drop. She was a brilliant inprovisationist. She was my closest, most dear, best friend. We talked nearly every day for 23 years. For hours. She died in the arms of myself, her husband, and her daughter. She never released an album because she played for the love of playing only. She played with the Grateful Dead, the Chieftans, so so many people. She's playing in the Irish band in the pub scene in that Harrison Ford movie... seeing Joe Cooley mentioned is a balm to my soul. Did you know him?

[@francje]

The lady is triona ní Dhomhnail. I do not know the recording you talk abaut but her name will maybe help.

[@spwt6634]

Music to get hammered to

[@RonenBraverman]

One who doesn't heared celtic music, don't know what is real music!!!

[@KelticTim]

Easy lad, like the accents in Ireland, there’s so many diff styles of Celtic music that saying it as you did could lead to a quick fight. For instance, I prefer Irish folk music, particularly the songs of rebellion and anti English/Protestant persuasion, this song is more traditional Celt and does absolutely nothing for me. It’s something you’d hear playing in the mall on St Patrick’s day. These are just some talented hippies playing music with no soul. Gimme Johnson’s Motor Car or The Beggarman over this every day and twice on Sunday. These hippies can’t hold The Dubliners or The Clancy Brothers guitar picks. Celtic isn’t Irish, Celtic can cover music styles from Norway to France to Scotland. (That little lesson isn’t necessarily for you, but for the others who may read this exchange). See what I mean? A quick fight. Of course you may have been saying Celtic for the uneducated and you were already aware of all this, in which case apologies.

[@RonenBraverman]

@@KelticTim Me too

[@whhswhhs]

Terrific.

[@SandythePiper]

Yes, and Fisherman's Lilt again, but in D =) Thank You!!

[@taainks7babe]

beaut

[@deterdettol]

Oh, so Clannad is also one of the bands. I should go listen to their music some day..

[@PaddysreturnVienna]

The second and the fourth tune are both the "Fisherman's lilt", not the Sailor's bonnet. These two are obviously related, and the Bothies play the fishermans lilt in the same unusual way as the sailors bonnet (second part repeated, first part single), but there are several phrases that show that this is not the same reel. The A part starts similar but then goes in another phrase which doesn't feature the off-beat-f#-rolls.

[@tantalumdom]

I am discovering these tracks again and filled with joy and admiration for these talented and godly musicians. Could some one tell me is playing on the pipes in this recording.I adore lunny and molloy and have followed their paths but dont recognise the pipe player. Thanks for posting

[@christaylor2070]

Paddy Keenan

[@Meehowski]

Awesome!!

[@Dayepipes]

You should hear a well finger-picked 12 string guitar backing either uilleann pipes or warpipes. A whole musical genre few if any have ever developed.

[@FredericGuttierez]

Beau pays que l Irlande !

[@deterdettol]

But you still have the chance to enjoy The Chieftains - probably the best and only 60's era band who are still active today.

[@BluudyGreg]

Actually, now that I heard the whole thing The Sailor's Bonnet is played near the end as well in D, I believe ...

[@michaeldineen8324]

Bluudy Greg No sign of The Sailors Bonnet. The tune is The Drunken Landlady.,

[@eileengannon]

i desperately want that clavinet

[@Domitianvs]

@egilssaga1 They're not "like bagpipes", they ARE bagpipes. Not the Great Highland Bagpipe, but bagpipes nonetheless. Just like the spanish Gaita, the italian Zampogna, the swedish säckpipa, the mainland european dudelsack and their various other variants. They're all bagpipes. They have a pipe or two or seven or whatever, and they have a bag which supplies the air for the pipes. They're bagpipes.

[@celtlass]

Studio audience or not, I don't know how they could hold still for this performance!

[@harmen147]

it's quite simular. it's both very good :p harmen

[@diegoprat3709]

I´m from Argentine but I live in Spain (in fact this´s important ´cause we don´t have this kind of music). From me, this music is like home, this music make my soul fly.

[@thomasmckenna5372]

It look's like that crowd is sitting on it's hand's

[@Wafaloo]

Funky keyboard with the inversed colors~!

[@sergioropo3019]

Wow, humans making music, not computers. How fascinating.

[@nikiarrowsmith]

No harmen,.....I believe Morning nightcap is a Lunasa original hence couldnt have possibly been done by bothy.

[@nww009]

I'm interested in the Bouzouki. Does anyone know where I could purchase a decent beginners Bouzouki?

[@bl44378]

It looks like Seamus Ennis sitting next to the clavinet?

[@BluudyGreg]

I know Irish tunes are usually known to have more than one name, but isn't the second tune The Sailor's Bonnet, then goes into Fisherman's Lilt? Sounds like there's 4 tunes to me, and not three ...

[@fryk2462]

Roger Hodgson playing bouzouki

[@eoinmccormack1940]

Nope. It's Dónal Lunny

[@fryk2462]

Eoin McCormack Of course he is..I know perfectly who Is Lunny, but he Is the alter ego of Hodgson there

[@eoinmccormack1940]

aha, my bad.

[@SandythePiper]

IT IS PADDY KEENAN=)

[@josefgiven]

I think there's some truth in that; the Bothies will be making aspiring folkies feel inadequate for the rest of time! Mind you, this embarrassment of riches did give us Out of the Wind into the Sun, so they're forgiven. ;)

[@Maeva.dalleau]

ils sont ouf !

[@omarshinken]

@Qwerti60 whats klezmer music?

[@Dayepipes]

Is there any hope of a reunion? I know Mícheál is no longer with us.

[@neil2385]

fucking wrecks my head

[@tantalumdom]

can someone tell me who is playing on this piece as not being an expert, i thought i notices donnal lunny from planxty and the flautist from the chieftans

[@greenviolist34]

0:17 😍😍😍

[@harmen147]

i think it's not the morning star but morning nightcap harmen147

[@RonenBraverman]

Who talked with you and who are you to say my brother what to do?

[@sebastianverney7851]

I'm a complete junkie for this music

[@txrasputin]

what kind of chanter would this be?

[@hoof2001]

I saw the Bothy Band at Lancaster University in 1977 and can tell you why the audience is mummified during the music. Even if you tapped a foot with the (infectious) music, a bearded, anally retentive purist, or her boyfriend, silenced you pdq! These concerts were apparently policed by them. The original fun police; so unIrish. Amazing music appreciated by tossers - it was a shame. Interesting to see the memory isn't wrong though

[@chezremo.chanson]

what's the name of the song at 1.27 ? thanks ! great !

[@GraeneyMac]

The Drunken Landlady.

[@charleswinokoor6023]

They sure as hell knew how to groove. Some rap producer with half a brain should sample it.

[@charlescousins3394]

whos the narwhal at 0:40??

[@gamerthegreat9664]

Yooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

[@HavocHerseim]

I went to a brothy night in Scotland with my father in law. I was 36. I was the youngest in the room by 30 years. You say you love bothy... but why then are they extinct?

[@RonenBraverman]

When God created the music, He created at first the Celtic music!!!

[@williefinn4932]

all fabulous musicians...wonderful arrangements....flute, pipes and fiddle from matt, paddy and kevin couldn`t have better support than from donal, michael and triona on bouzouki, guitar and clavinet, repectively.

[@royalhilltararanger3947]

Michael domhaill look ays gutair passed away years ago yes buured in Saint comchils cemetery kells county Meath Ireland Was at funeral alatan played at grave