The Chieftains featuring Ry Cooder: San Patricio | CD review

(Fantasy/Concord)The Chieftains have enjoyed an extraordinary career for the best part of five decades, partly because of adventurous, high-profile projects like this. They have matched their rousing Irish traditional playing with styles from across the world, recording with Spanish musicians, Chinese folk bands or country, bluegrass and rock celebrities from Alison Krauss to Van Morrison or the Rolling Stones. Now comes arguably their most original album, an Irish-Latin concept piece that inv...

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