monotumn this album transcends words. ty 🧡

snagfang When I listen to this album, it generates a serenity and peace within that I just don't seem to find anywhere else.
Thank you so much for your music guys, you give us so much more than you know.
Favorite track: Now and Not Yet.

Lesli Kramer im NEVER at a loss for words, ever.....and yet there ARE NO WORDS to describe this album except TRANSCENDENT.....🙏❤🙏❤🙏❤

jacensolodjo There is something haunting about the family having zero clue about WW2 in its entirety. I remember learning about them and wondering and I still wonder now how many are still in the wilderness, driven there by atrocities or not. Many find being alone to be fear inducing. But they left and isolated out of fear to begin with. This music is just the tip of the iceberg for how haunting and emotional the situation is. It does its job as well as possible, though. Amazing. Favorite track: Famine and the Death of a Mother.

Augium My ears were embraced in a sobering poignance, whose gentle warmth and remorseful delicacy, for no lack of tempered cheeriness, swept over me in waves of emotion, graduating until it left me alone and ok again. I feel like I have been given a gift that has been a long time coming. Thank you. Favorite track: Silence of Siberia.

Caleb Bratcher It's not often that music manage to evoke emotion in the way this does. The varied structure drew me in only to rip my heart out with the namesake track. Fantastically done. Favorite track: This is For Our Sins.

SeanOceide Absolute legend and revolutionary concertina player! Favorite track: To War (Jig).

benhockenberry Alternately ferocious and sensitive, this album digs into the rhythmic and harmonic possibilities of the concertina. There's pyrotechnics, for sure (the air-button solo on To War!) but there's also a beautiful, lyrical approach to a number of slow pieces, with interweaving lines of countermelody -- he's anything but a one-trick pony. Among my favorite solo trad albums. Favorite track: To War (Jig).

jadearama There's albums that re-define the edges of the tradition and change it forever. Lonesome Touch by Hayes & Cahill was one of them.... 'B' is another.
Stonking good rhythm that makes me rethink every tune I play or want to play in the future Favorite track: Rolling in the Barrel / O'Neill's March / Tralee Jail.

Peter Subramanian I feel the artists balancing between the traditions of the style and the refined creativity they employ to arrange these old transcriptions. They both capture the essence of what I love about traditional Irish music- the raw sounds of the fiddle, pipes, and woodwinds. What really takes it to another world is their love and careful crafting of each track as a beautiful new life for each of these tunes- some wholly unfamiliar to me and others nearly identical to tunes I am familiar with.

Fedaykin Beautiful collection of very old tunes, well played and well recorded. Favorite track: The Black Bird.

Rory C An outstanding collection of traditional Irish tunes you won't hear much anywhere else. Expertly recorded, and played with skill and passion. This sounds fresh & vital, despite the age of the songs.
The follow-up album, More Tunes from the Goodman Manuscripts, is just as good!