A combined effort with fiddle player Kevin Glackin, Forgotten Days is the first offering from Davy Spillane on Barrowstone Records. Glackin demonstrates that he has the tone and dexterity to keep up with Spillane on the explosive Celtic opener "Pigeon on the Gate Within a Mile of Dublin," with its lively pace reminiscent of bluegrass. Instrumental achievement is indeed the cornerstone of this 2001 release, as numbers like "Lucy Campbell Trim the Velvet the Abbey Reel" sizzle w...   [ read more ]

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Instrumental prowess combined with complex but haunting melodies is a hallmark of musician Davy Spillane's fine solo outings. Quasi-new age virtuosos like Michael Hedges come to mind as Spillane's Celtic pipes soar with a modern, universal shimmer that never loses its traditional bounce on the artist's sixth solo effort, A Place Among the Stones. An accomplished composer and musician, Spillane won't surprise fans with his sometimes-bounding, sometimes-plaintive tunes, but the produc...   [ read more ]

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