November 14th, 2010 | 
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Has one or two very light surface marks, but plays fine, sounds sublime. From a well cared for personal collection. Buy with confidence–see my feedback.Amazon.com
One of the elements that’s made the Chieftains the stellar Celtic band in the world is their love of innovative collaborations with mainstream pop stars. The Wide World Over: A 40-Year Celebration gathers into a single collection some of the Irish ensemble’s most memorable moments, includin… More >>
The Wide World Over: A 40 Year Celebration
Originally posted 2010-08-07 23:39:32.
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This album comes across as so phony. I could not BELIEVE what I was hearing. Complete with the currently popular “mystical” effects from Riverdance, it dumbs down this great traditional music and reduces it to the most obvious devices to pull audience strings. (And I love the Riverdance album! Just, not what they did in here!) I was shocked to hear such superb musicians as Sinead, Ricky and others doing such unabashedly CHEESY renditions of this great, original, rich music. The vibrant tapestry one associates with the Chieftans is completely absent.
Rating: 3 / 5
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Tedious. Trite. Blasphemous.
I know it’s “just” music, but I feel abused by this effort.
If you’re a fan of The Chieftains you don’t need to own or hear this CD. You already own the best cuts and the other thirteen or sixteen are just pitiful grabs for the limelight that it seems they feel they’re missing!
If you’re not a fan of “The Chieftains”, you won’t become one because you listened to this collection.
Really! Ziggy Marley!?!?! My 19-year-old daughter and her friend were in stitches, laughing at that collaboration. Others are equally moronic.
The Chieftains don’t have to play back-up to every act!
What next? Accompanying Christina Aguilera as she sings “Danny Boy”????
Nothing is forever. Forty years is a long time. If The Chieftains have recorded all that they need to record, then don’t record!!! However, I will be the first in line to buy tickets when them come to Pittsburgh. (Unless they feature Michael Jackson…)
[Nothing against Michael Jackson!]
Rating: 1 / 5
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Answer: To make an album with The Chieftains. Seriously, if you like collaborations, this is OK; but The Chieftains are best straight up!
Rating: 3 / 5
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Do you have any idea how long I have been looking for a recording of “I Know My Love?” Try five years!! When I was in Ireland on tour in 2000, I heard that hauntingly beautiful love song and tried to find it over there. I can’t believe that while I looked everywhere over in the UK, I am now finding it five years later, long after giving up, on the Internet! And what a beautiful interpretation it is too. I wouldn’t have expected anything less from the mighty Cheiftains…
Rating: 5 / 5
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Just pop the disk into your CD player and enjoy. This group definitly makes some of the happiest and most beautiful music you will ever hear. The new Ziggy Marley and the old Sinead O’Connor tracks are great but still luv the old traditional music best and nobody does it better than the Chieftains. I just returned from their St. Patricks Day concert at Lincoln Center in NY an hour ago and my foot is still tapping along to the tunes they left playing in my memory. Great music from a great band!
Rating: 5 / 5
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