Track Listings (14) - Disc #1| All Artists: Liz Carroll Title: Lost in Loop Members Wishing: 0 Total Copies: 0 Label: Green Linnet Original Release Date: 2/1/2000 Release Date: 2/1/2000 Genres: Folk, International Music, Pop Styles: Traditional Folk, British & Celtic Folk, Contemporary Folk, Celtic Number of Discs: 1 SwapaCD Credits: 1 UPC: 048248119924 |
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Chicago-born Liz Carroll is a former all-Ireland fiddle champion with a repertoire that encompasses various regional Irish styles as well as her original creations. Lost in the Loop was produced by fellow Irish-American Se... more » |
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Amazon.com Chicago-born Liz Carroll is a former all-Ireland fiddle champion with a repertoire that encompasses various regional Irish styles as well as her original creations. Lost in the Loop was produced by fellow Irish-American Seamus Egan of the band Solas; he plays percussion and penny whistle and takes a guitar solo on "Lament of the First Generation." Most of the guitar parts are played by Solas's John Doyle, and Solas fiddler Winifred Horan trades fiddle lines with Carroll on a couple of tracks. Carroll often combines her own compositions with traditional jigs and reels, as on the hard-driving medley of the traditional "The Old Maid of Galway" and the original "Lizzy in the Lowground." Chief O'Neill, the 19th-century Chicago police captain who collected and preserved the music of his native Ireland, must be smiling from somewhere beyond the Loop. --Rick Mitchell Similarly Requested CDs
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CD ReviewsThe only thing better is to see her live! Theodore Pollari | Chicago, IL | 02/10/2000 (5 out of 5 stars) "I had the pleasure to see Liz Carroll perform at the University of Chicago Folk Festival. From the first song she played I knew I was going to pick up at least one of her CDs. Lost in the Loop is amazing. It's one of those CDs that I will keep handy and listen to often. There is an energy to her playing and it comes through even in the CD. The recording quality does this awesome work justice, and it all comes together to be a fine, fine album!" Her best work to date. Brian Donovan | Pennsylvania, USA | 01/25/2004 (5 out of 5 stars) "Having seen Liz play live more than a dozen or so times, I've always appreciated her ability, but her first studio album (Liz Carroll) didn't seem to live up to her live performances. The first time I heard "Lost in the Loop", it brought back every live performance I had seen. This is it. The style, the ability, beautiful tune selections and you don't have to jostle with a few hundred beer toting people to hear it.For anyone asking me to recommend to best example of Irish style fiddling, this is it. Hands down, no competition. Eileen Ivers, Natalie McMaster and Winifred Horan are all great fiddlers, but this is the best I've heard." Me Own Celtic Music Queen Elizabeth! Brian Donovan | 10/09/2002 (5 out of 5 stars) "Failte! (Greetings!)Why is Liz so special? For starters, she is a prolific composer of what sounds like traditional Irish Music. While I have heartfelt thanks to other wonderful Irish fiddle players, Liz is inventing or re-inventing the tunes she plays, either through writing the song or coming up with a unique and wonderful spin on old tunes. While I would characterize Kevin Burke as one of the few fiddlers that could play alone in any Irish pub and have his audience spellbound, the same is true for Liz. Kevin is playing to an audience of one, for himself, and according to his 1000 percent in synch meditation on internal music. Liz is using the fiddle as her voice, as if singing. She rips through double notes, single and double leads, counterpoint, triplets and slides with ease and dexterity. Both styles are absolutely excellent. Liz excells as a former journey woman on back up fiddle in working with others as close friends and making different chemistries work. "The Golden Champagne Jig" is an excellent example of what sounds like authentic, traditional, old, Irish music. It is her own composition demonstrating both gut instincts for the music and a load of creativity. It is crying time when John Doyle's beautiful chording complements Liz's exquisite, gorgeous lead in the "Lament of the First Generation" and "Crow in the Sun." It is "toe tapping time" in the "Golden Legs/The Flogging Reel" set. John, Winifred Horan (fiddle) and Seamus Eagan are borrowed in this album from Solas, and demonstrate the Celtic style that first made Solas famous through the 1990's. Both Liz and Winifred are former All-Ireland fiddle champions. Seamus plays flute, mandolin, tenor banjo and bodhran and is reaching a point of his career as a more than two decade veteran to support other deserving talent. If this Solas-Carroll collaboration continues, many longtime Solas fans like myself will make the transition with the band."
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