Planxty

Planxty was a landmark release in 1972, providing a booster shot to Irish folk and linking four musical giants for the first time -- Andy Irvine, Christy Moore, Donal Lunny and Liam O'Flynn. But what makes these wailing, lonesome songs eternally satisfying is how they pulse with a beat peculiar to the Emerald Isle, to its rainy fields, leaden skies and stark cliffs.