The Poet & The Piper is a studio album by poet Seamus Heaney and piper Liam O'Flynn, recorded in 2003 and released in the same year. The album is made up of instrumental tracks and spoken poetry, both often mixed together. The recording features traditional and contemporary music, lyrics and poetry such as An Bonnán Buí, one of the oldest known Irish traditional songs. The album was used as a soundtrack for television programme Keeping Time broadcast on both RTÉ and the BBC.
Track listing The Given Note / Port na bPúcaí Digging Bogland Árdaí Chuain At the Wellhead The Otter The Rolling Wave / The Hag's Money The Yellow Bittern (An Bonnán Buí) The Yellow Bittern / The Broken Pledge The Glamoured (Gile na Gile) Aisling Gheal The Tollund Man Midterm Break Sliabh Gallon's Brae Clearances 3 Clearances 5 Cronán na Máthar Two Lorries The Humours of Castlebernard / The Bank of Turf A Call Seeing Things - Section 3 Fáinne Geal an Lae St. Kevin and the Blackbird Open the Door for Three The Annals Say Postscript Garret Barry's Reel / Seán Reid's Favourite
Personnel Seamus Heaney – Spoken word Liam O'Flynn – uilleann pipes, tin whistle Stephen Cooney – guitar Rod McVey – harmonium
External links The Poet & The Piper at Amazon.com