Cork's Greatest Records: How Jackie Daly and Séamus Creagh raised the bar for Munster's trad scene
Seamus Creagh and Jackie Daly. Picture: Domhnall Ó Mairtín
“This disc will be a collector’s item,” proclaimed the headline on Bob O’Donoghue’s Evening Echo traditional music column in March 1977. It is safe to say, 43 years later, that his prophesy has proved correct. Jackie Daly and Séamus Creagh’s album of the same name not only made waves on its release at the height of the '70s trad revival, but has proved influential ever since, its popularity prompting its re-release by Gael Linn in 2005.
“Inventiveness,” according to reviewer O’Donoghue, was the essence of an album on which the tunes of Sliabh Luachra “known and played for an age” were again made new.
