One question from someone genuinely curious:
How come the Chieftans haven't been mentioned?
While I like music from the isles, I have yet to enjoy most of the acts mentioned here, so please take it from that perspective.
Are the C's too commercial? Or just taken for granted as being great? I could see that many could think of them as fulfilling the clichees on many tunes (drinking, carousing...) but...well, you tell me..:scratch2:
For your approval, a singer (Scottish-born, later living in Aus.): Eric Bogle.
He wrote "The Green Fields of France", also "And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda".
To this day I cannot get through 'Fields of France' without crying, much the same with 'Matilda'.
Anyone else like him?
Best,
C.