Word: makeme
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Dates: during 1961-1961
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...four singers are known as "The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem," and two of the Clancys come by their revolutionary impulses honestly-they are former members of the I.R.A. Old-style revolution, however, was not nearly so lucrative as recording or touring, and the Clancys have learned that practical lesson from a briskly selling Columbia album, from club dates and concerts that have taken them all over the U.S. In the overcrowded folk field, the Clancys are as fresh and lusty a sound as their fans are likely to hear outside of a County Tipperary...
Ireland, said Sheridan, is the land of happy wars and sad love songs. So we are informed, at any rate, by one of the singers on a Columbia album called "A SPONTANEOUS RECORDING!" The spontaneous performance is given by the Clancy Brothers (Tom, Pat, and Liam), Tommy Makem, Pete Seeger (on banjo), Bruce Langhorne (on guitar), and what is described as "a 200-voice singing audience." The audience is not omnipresent, and all of the songs (like all Irish songs, I'm convinced) have the gift o' th' gab. The performers, too, are ebullient, effervescent, and effusive, a welcome change...