Post your favourite Ballads

vibes23

Hey all,

I duno if this has been done already. So sorry if it has.

Post up your favourite ballad. I mean the tune you like to play, wish you could play or listen to most.

if you have a few name them all and the instrument you play them on if any.

Mine are:

Finnegans Wakes - Great ballad for a party
Lough Sheelins pride by wolfetones
Hot Asphalt - Damien Dempsy version
Rainy night in soho - Damo agaon.

Also Damien Dempsey new album rocky road i think its song no. 7 at the very end of song from about 3:25 mins in there a jig that lasts about 2 mins long. AMASIN !

You can here Barney mckenna at the end "That sounds alright boys "

Quality. Lets here yours!

yomchi

The Fields of Athenry - Probably the best ballad ever written. The version song by Paddy Reilly and without the add-ons created in the stands of Celtic FC. Ruins it.

Galtee Mountain Boy - another great one and the Foggy Dew. My Fave 3.

brousuka

All of above - great songs. My favourite (played on acoustic guitar) would be:

Black Velvet Band
Mc Alpines Fusillieers
Dirty old Town
Missing You
The Cobbler
Desperado
Raglan Road
Johnny Jump Up
Lakes of Ponchartrain
The Oul Triangle
Carrickfergus
Black is the Colour

A lot of Dubliners there I agree, but fairly guaranteed to get any session goin!

ErinGoBrath

I absoloutely LOVE these ones:

Authur McBride
Mc Alpines Fusillieers
Raglan Road
Lakes of Ponchartrain
Wrap the Green Flag
Back Home in Derry
Streets of New York
Erin Go Bragh

I can play the guitar but can't really make anything Irish sound good. Anyone recommend any decent Irish guitar lessons???

CSC

Too many to mention and these change on regular basis but at the moment it's Farewell to Dublin, From Clare to Here and Ride On.