tracks

Tommy Peoples
The Windmill
Fintan McManus's
Moll Dubh A' Ghleanna
Jimmy Lyon's
The Teelin
The Red Crow
The Broken Bridge
The Sunset
Glory Reel/The Heathery Cruach
The Flower Of Magherally
Mazurka
A Bhean Udai Thall
King Of The Pipers
'Si Do Mhaimeo I
The Jug Of Punch
The Emyvale/Ril Gan Ainm/The Three Merry Sisters Of Fate
An Mhaighdean Mhara
Dulaman
Drowsy Maggie
Rakish Paddy
Harvest Storm
An Feochan
Con Cassidy's/Neil Gow's Highland/Moll And Tiarna/McSweeney's
The Yellow Tinker/Lady Montgomery
Thug Me Ruide
Ta Mo Chleamhnas A Dheanamh
The Curlew/McDermott's/Three Scones Of Boxty/Unnamed Reel
Tuirse Mo Chroi
Paddy's Trip To Scotland/Dinky's/The Shetland Fiddler
Johnny's Wedding/Rogue's Reel/The Gravel Walk

notes

The Best of Altan (GLCD1177) packaged together with an exclusive, Limited Edition Bonus CD (Altan recorded live at the Museum Bochum (Bochum, Germany) in January 15, 1989).

Track 1-4 from the CD Altan (GLCD 1078) and recorded in Aigle Studios, Dublin, Ireland.

Tracks 1-8, 1-16 from the CD Horse With A Heart (GLCD 1095) and recorded at Lansdowne Studio in Dublin, Ireland in July 1988. Track 1-16 remastered 1995.

Tracks 1-2, 1-3, 1-6, 1-12 from the CD The Red Crow (GLCD 1109) and recorded at Westland Studios, Sublin, Ireland, June 1990.

Tracks 1-9, 1-10, 1-15 from the CD Harvest Storm (GLCD 1117) recorded at Windmill Lane Studios, Dunlin, Ireland, September/October 1991.

Tracks 1-1, 1-7, 1-11, 1-13, 1-14, 1-5 from the CD Island Angel (GLCD 1137) recorded at Windmill Lane Studios, Dublin, Ireland, July 1993. Tracks 1-1, 1-7 remastered 1995.

Disc one has the cat no GLC 1177-1.
Disc two has the cat no GLC 1177-2.

Some copies came with a circular green hype sticker 'Limited Edition Bonus CD'

credits

Accordion – Dermot Byrne (tracks: 1-1, 1-3, 1-7)
Arranged By – Altan, P.J. Curtis (2) (tracks: 1-3)
Backing Vocals – Anna Ní Mhaonaigh (tracks: 1-14), Ciarán Tourish, (tracks: 1-1, 1-5, 1-7, 1-9 to 1-11, 1-13 to 1-15), Dáithí Sproule (tracks: 1-1, 1-5, 1-7, 1-11, 1-13, 1-14), Frankie Kennedy (tracks: 1-1 to 1-3, 1-5 to 1-7, 1-9 to 1-15), Mark Kelly (3) (tracks: 1-1 to 1-3, 1-5 to 1-7, 1-9 to 1-15)
Bass [Fretless] – Steve Cooney (tracks: 1-11, 1-14)
Bodhrán – Colin Murphy (tracks: 1-8, 1-16), Dónal Lunny, (tracks: 1-1, 1-2, 1-4, 1-14), Tommy Hayes (tracks: 1-5, 1-9, 1-10, 1-15)
Bodhrán [Bass] – Dónal Lunny, (tracks: 1-8, 1-16), Tommy Hayes (tracks: 1-9, 1-10, 1-15)
Bouzouki – Ciarán Curran,
Bouzouki [Bouzouki-guitar] – Ciarán Curran, (tracks: 1-1 to 1-3, 1-5 to 1-7, 1-9 to 1-15)
Compiled By – Thomas Rota
Design – Brian Wittman
Double Bass – Garvan Gallagher (tracks: 1-2)
Edited By – Christian Scholze (tracks: 2-1 to 2-8), Jan Reichow (tracks: 2-1 to 2-8), Jean Trouillet (tracks: 2-1 to 2-8)
Engineer – Brian Masterson (tracks: 1-1, 1-7, 1-5, 1-9, 1-10, 1-11, 1-13, 1-14, 1-15), Dan Fitzgerald (tracks: 1-2, 1-3, 1-6, 1-8, 1-12, 1-16), Dónal Lunny, (tracks: 1-4)
Fiddle – Ciarán Tourish, (tracks: 1-1, 1-5, 1-7, 1-9 to 1-11, 1-13 to 1-15), Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh, Paul O'Shaughnessy (tracks: 1-2, 1-3, 1-6, 1-8 to 1-10, 1-12, 1-15, 1-16, 2-1 to 2-8)
Flute – Frankie Kennedy
Guitar – Dáithí Sproule (tracks: 1-1, 1-5, 1-7, 1-11, 1-13, 1-14), Mark Kelly (3)
Guitar [High Strung] – Mark Kelly (3) (tracks: 1-2, 1-3, 1-6, 1-12)
Jew's Harp – Tommy Hayes (tracks: 1-9, 1-10, 1-15)
Keyboards – Dónal Lunny, (tracks: 1-4, 1-9 to 1-11, 1-13, 1-15), Phil Cunningham (2) (tracks: 1-8, 1-16)
Liner Notes – Earle Hitchner
Low Whistle – Frankie Kennedy (tracks: 1-1, 1-5, 1-7, 1-11, 1-13, 1-14)
Mastered By – Christian Scholze (tracks: 2-1 to 2-8), Dieter Wegner (tracks: 2-1 to 2-8)
Percussion – Steve White (3) (tracks: 1-8, 1-16), Tommy Hayes (tracks: 1-9, 1-10, 1-14, 1-15)
Photography By – Colm Henry, Kevin Yatarola
Piano – Marie Askin (tracks: 1-6), Séamus Quinn (tracks: 1-3)
Producer – Altan (tracks: 1-1, 1-5, 1-7, 1-11, 1-13, 1-14), Brian Masterson (tracks: 1-1, 1-5, 1-7, 1-11, 1-13, 1-14), Dónal Lunny, (tracks: 1-4), P.J. Curtis, (tracks: 1-2, 1-3, 1-6, 1-9, 1-10, 1-12, 1-15), Phil Cunningham (2) (tracks: 1-8, 1-16)
Remastered By – Brian Masterson (tracks: 1-1, 1-7, 1-15c), Dónal Lunny, (tracks: 1-1, 1-7, 1-15c, 1-16)
Shaker – Tommy Hayes (tracks: 1-11)
Translated By – Proinsias Ó Maonaigh
Vocals – Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh (tracks: 1-1 to 1-3, 1-5 to 1-16, 2-1 to 2-8)
Whistle – Ciarán Tourish, (tracks: 1-1, 1-5, 1-7, 1-9 to 1-11, 1-13 to 1-15), Frankie Kennedy (tracks: 1-2, 1-3, 1-6, 1-9, 1-10, 1-12, 1-15), Phil Cunningham (2) (tracks: 1-8, 1-16)

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