Christy Moore - Whatever Tickles Your Fancy 1975

Christy Moore is an Irish legend and rightly so. He also appears on "Planxty - Cold Blow And The Rainy Night 1974" which can be found here;



"Whatever Tickles Your Fancy, Christy Moore's third album was his first after his first departure from Planxty, in the mid-'70s. Perhaps feeling a bit as if he should try to please all folk factions, the LP was divided into an acoustic side ("Tippin' It Up to Nancy," in fact, features nothing but his voice and bodhran) and an electric one. Rearrangements of traditional material dominated the song list, although it also included a couple of Ewan MacColl tunes and, most surprisingly, a cover of Mountain's "One Last Cold Kiss." Whatever approach was used, he was an effective interpreter of traditional numbers, or work that was traditional in style (even "One Last Cold Kiss," after all, was based on a Nantucket legend). The electric side was very much in the British fiddle-electric guitar folk-rock style pioneered by Fairport Convention, the most notable cuts being "The Ballad of Timothy Evans" and the eight-minute closer, "Van Diemen's Land." "

Richie Unterberger, All Music Guide



The album also features the beautiful "One last cold kiss", also performed by heavy rock band Mountain on their excellent album "Flowers Of Evil".

1 Home by Bearna
2 January man
3 The moving on song
4 Bunch of thyme
5 Tippin' it up to Nancy
6The ballad of Timothy Evans
7 What put the blood
8 One last cold kiss
9 Trip to Roscoff
10 Van Diemens Land

Christy Moore - vocals, guitar, bodhran
Robbie Brennan - drums
Donal Lunny - guitar, bouzouki, bodhran, moog, vocals
Jimmy Faulkner - guitars
Declan McNelis - bass, guitar
Kevin Burke - fiddle