7. Kevin Burke and Mícheál Ó DomhnaillPromenade

I didn’t hear the album first, there’s a live recording of a concert they did on YouTube. I think those videos were actually the first time I came across Kevin’s playing. There’s something quite particular about Mícháel’s groove behind the tunes too. Quite often it’s common to have guitar in trad bands and they quite often define the rhythm or the groove, but I find that with Mícháel, he really drones along and it’s Kevin who’s leading the groove. As a piper because you’re used to that drone being there, you think about the groove being the thing that defines it, and I find that in Mícháel guitar playing. I loved it. I would recommend listening to the concert recording because it really is better than the album.