Word: mear
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Long Black Veil is a lovely introduction to this musical Irish institution, with a cogent, eclectic choice of material and Moloney's smart matching of song to singer. Sting leads off with the rapturous Mo Ghile Mear--Our Hero, a tribute to Bonnie Prince Charlie that makes the listener shiver, and sing along, with its manly melancholy. For three other star studs, Moloney provided tales of faithless women: the dirty dancer in Jones' giddily melodramatic version of Tennessee Waltz, the vixen who leads a beau to murder in Knopfler's The Lily of the West, the adulteress refusing to save...
Listening to this timeless music, you can almost believe that a song could save the world. It's tempting to offer each Chieftain the toast from Mo Ghile Mear--"So wish him strength and length of days"--but these old boyos already have both...