The Best of Altan

Tracklist

• CD 1
• 1
  Tommy Peoples / The Windmill / Fintan McManus’s
  3:16
• 2
  Moll Dubh a’ Ghleanna
  3:28
• 3
  Jimmy Lyon’s / The Teelin / The Red Crow / The Broken Bridge
  4:41
• 4
  The Sunset
  3:42
• 5
  Glory Reel / The Heathery Cruach
  2:57
• 6
  The Flower of Magherally
  4:18
  4.0 ★
• 7
  Mazurka
  2:46
• 8
  A Bhean Udaí Thall
  3:31
• 9
  King of the Pipers
  3:12
• 10
  ’Sí Do Mhaimeo Í
  2:51
• 11
  The Jug of Punch
  3:32
• 12
  The Emyvale / Ríl gan Ainm / The Three Merry Sisters of Fate
  2:57
• 13
  An Mhaighdean Mhara
  2:56
• 14
  Dúlamán
  3:44
• 15
  Drowsy Maggie / Rakish Paddy / Harvest Storm
  2:58
• 16
  An Feochán
  4:44
• CD 2: Live
• 1
  Con Cassidy’s / Neil Gow’s Highland / Moll and Tiarna / McSweeney’s
  4:14
• 2
  The Yellow Tinker / Lady Montgomery
  1:46
• 3
  Thug Mé Rúide
  2:35
• 4
  Tá Mo Chleamhnas a Dhéanamh
  5:03
• 5
  The Curlew / McDermott’s / Three Scones of Boxty / Unnamed Reel
  4:07
• 6
  Tuirse Mo Chroí
  4:05
  5.0 ★
• 7
  Paddy’s Trip to Scotland / Dinky’s / The Shetland Fiddler
  4:45
• 8
  Johnny’s Wedding / Rogue’s Reel / The Gravel Walk
  4:34

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Release credits

• Aidan McGovern
  assistant [9-10, 15]
• Anna Ní Mhaonaigh
  background vocals [14], guest [14]
• Brian Masterson
  engineer [9-10, 15]
• Ciarán Byrne
  assistant [9-10, 15]
• Ciarán Curran
  Irish bouzouki [4], arranger [4]
• Dan Fitzgerald
  engineer [2-3, 6, 12]
• Dermot Byrne
  accordion [3], diatonic button accordion [1, 7], guest [1, 7]
• Dónal Lunny
  bodhrán, keyboard, arranger [4], bodhrán [1-2, 4, 14], engineer [4], guest [1, 11, 13-14], keyboard [4, 11, 13], producer [4]
• Frankie Kennedy
  Irish flute [3], arranger [4], flute [4]
• Garvan Gallagher
  double bass [2]
• Liam Ó Maonlaí
  didgeridoo [10], guest [10]
• Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh
  arranger [4], fiddle [3-4], lead vocals [2, 6]
• Marie Askin
  piano [6]
• Mark Kelly
  guitar [4]
• P.J. Curtis
  producer [9-10, 15]
• Steve Cooney
  fretless bass [11, 14], guest [11, 14]
• Séamus Quinn
  piano [3]
• Tommy Hayes
  bodhrán, mouth harp, percussion, shakers, bodhrán [5], guest [5, 11, 14], percussion [14], shakers [11]
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Issues

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  T
  The Best of Altan

  2x CD
  1997
• T
  The Best of Altan

  2x CD (30 Years of Green Linnet reissue)
  2013