| The Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem | |
| Type: | Album |
| Artist: | The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem |
| Cover: | Clancy_Brothers_&_Tommy_Makem_-_self-titled_album_cover.jpg |
| Released: | 1961 |
| Recorded: | Daniel Hancock |
| Genre: | Irish folk music |
| Length: | 34:33 |
| Label: | Tradition |
| Producer: | Patrick Clancy |
| Prev Title: | Come Fill Your Glass with Us |
| Prev Year: | 1959 |
| Next Title: | A Spontaneous Performance Recording |
| Next Year: | 1961 |
The Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem is a collection of traditional Irish songs performed by The Clancy Brothers with frequent collaborator Tommy Makem. It was their third album and their final one for Tradition Records, the small label that the eldest Clancy brother Paddy Clancy ran. After this, the group recorded exclusively for Columbia Records until 1970. This was the first album for which they used the group name, The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem. Their prior recordings had simply listed their individual names on the cover.
Billboard Magazine awarded the album four stars and praised the Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem for singing and playing Irish folk music "with much authority and feeling." In the reviewer's opinion, the songs on the album were "all sparkling with Irish wit and emotion."[1]
In a specialized review of folk albums, D. K. Wilgus complimented the album for retaining a "ring of honesty" in authentically presenting Irish folk songs while suggesting that the record also strove too much to emphasize the "'felt beauty' or the meaning of the material." He singled out Liam Clancy's solo on "The Bold Tenant Farmer" for praise.[2]
After Liam Clancy died in 2009, The Times of London noted that this album showed the Clancys and Makem "as assured and consummate performers, with Liam's dramatic style making his the strongest voice of all."[3]
All songs are traditional, except noted otherwise