Tommie Potts and his celebrated album The Liffey Banks is the subject of the latest podcast in The Rolling Wave podcast series - listen above.
The Liffey Banks was released by Claddagh Records in 1972 and it presents music from one of the most inventive and unique voices in Irish traditional music. Over fifty years later, the music on this record is still as captivating and rewarding as ever. Each time you hear it you hear something new.
Potts was a musician who explored his music in great depth and the music he created was incredibly powerful and beautiful. The Liffey Banks is truly a classic album and long may it continue to be heard and played.
This podcast features reflections on The Liffey Banks from Tommie Potts' grand nephew Seán Óg Potts, from fiddle players Martin Hayes, Aoife Ní Bhriain and James Kelly and from the archives the voices of Garech de Brún, Peadar O’Loughlin, Paddy Moloney, Seán Potts and Tommie Potts himself.
The Liffey Banks by Tommie Potts is the latest in The Rolling Wave podcast series. You can listen to all fifty seven episodes to date here, and listen to move from The Rolling Wave here.
