Finbar & Eddie Furey   •   The Town Is Not Their Own

• The Town Is Not Their Own
  • 1981 - Harp/Pickwick HPE 613 LP (IRL)

• Side One
  1. The Curragh Of Kildare
  2. Dainty Davy
  3. Jig: Tattered Jack Welch
  4. The Flowers In The Valley
  5. Bill Hart's Favourite

• Side Two
  6. Sliabh Na Mban (The Mountain of the Woman)
  7. The Town Is Not Your Own (Shay Healy)
  8. The Lonesome Boatman (Finbar Furey)
  9. Jig: Rocking The Baby
  10. Eamonn An Chnoic

• Credits
  • All tracks: Trad. Arr. F. & E. Furey, unless otherwise noted.

• Track Sources
  • Tracks: 1-4, 6, 7, 9, 10 are from Finbar & Eddie Furey (1968)
  • Tracks: 5, 8 are from The Lonesome Boatman (1969)

Sleeve Notes

There is no sound in all music that resembles the combination of Irish pipes accompanying voice and guitar, and that combination is unique to the Furey Brothers. The backing of Finbar's plaintive pipes to Eddie's wild voice gives a windswept, rather desolate flavour to the sadder songs, contrasting with the frisky whistle and brisk piping on the dance tunes.

This album of the Fureys has the combination of songs, slow airs and dances that make them so popular, and features Finbar's solo on the Indian whistle The Lonesome Boatman, which has proved a show stopper at all their recent concerts.

Finbar and Eddie have become known in Scotland, as well as in Ireland, as two of the finest traditional musicians to emerge in recent years.