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"Donegal
fiddle music is inevitably intertwined with the
lonesome caoining of Johnny Doherty, but the north-west's
appetite for unfettered merriment is seldom aired
with such panache as it is by Liz Doherty on this,
her second solo outing. The sheer exuberance ricocheting
across the bow of the album on the opener, Johnny
Sunshine / The Blue Lamp, is so infectious, it'd
surely bypass the sternest of anti-happiness league
inoculations. Then again, Doherty's bareboned immersion
in the Scottish borrowing, Michael's Mazurka,
reeks of a poignancy that only a long-time inhabitant
of the music can create. Producer and counterpointing
fiddler Gerry O'Connor lends his by now trademark
joie de vivre to the mix. Fiddle music that tweaks
heartstrings and smile lines in equal measure. Imbibe
and delight in its glories."
Siobhan
Long, The Irish Times, May 23rd 2002
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