Jimi Slevin LP freeflight Peggy's leg FOLK PSYCH PROG

	£		30
	$		40

Original Irish pressing on the local Claddagh Records label. The record is in excellent+ condition and the sleeve is in excellent condition. Great prog folk with floydian influences.

Here are some reviews:
Excerpt from the book "IRISH ROCK ROOTS", by Mark J. Prendergast Guitarist Jimi Slevin, an inheritor of the sixties guitar-based style, continued to play vigorously up and down the country without a care in the world. Definitely forming a vital bridge during the lean mid-seventies, Slevin became a number one live attraction and the most popular home-based guitarist. After breaking formidable ground with the classical rock oriented Peggy's Leg, he was enrolled in Skid Row for a brief phase before forming his own Jimi Slevin Band in 1975, the hottest band in the country at the time. I can remember hundreds of long-haired youths descending on a large Dublin park on a summer's day in 1976 just to hear Slevin play. It was the time of flared designer trousers and open-necked shirts, and Slevin personified enough energetic freedom for young people to identify with.
Slevin changed the name of his group to Firefly and cut the record Getting There for EMI in 1978. A mixed album of guitar music, the tracks 'Magic Lands' and 'Wouldn't It Be Nice' are prominent displays of Slevin playing at his inspired best. Deciding to level off and work on his own, Slevin spent many years conceiving his first solo project which was finally released in 1982. Freeflight (Ceirnini Cladaigh) is a masterwork. Jimi plays electric and acoustic guitars including a twelve-string, mandolin, tin whistle and percussion. Trevor Knight is on keyboards. The music involves a series of classical guitar introductions and uilleann pipe passages, The track 'White Cottage' uses an echo effect to evoke the atmosphere of the Irish outdoors – the feeling of being out on the highland reaches, gulls circling overhead as dawn cracks through the mist and water slaps against the shore. Recorded in Slane Studios in county Meath, an area rich in mythology, the record is a perfect swan song to the idealism of the hippy rock culture. Here Slevin manages to transcend the limitations of that culture by summoning forth the more aesthetic side of his own background and melting it with the traditions of his Celtic environment. Even though the guitar is still utilized as a basic tool for development, Slevin's use of the instrument is never indulgent or histrionic. For these reasons Freeflight was and still is one of the most essential of Irish rock albums.

From Pure Folk Magazine No.6:
The album begins with a short but superb instrumental called "SUMMER" this runs into "STORMY SEAS" written by Jimi, as in fact are all the tracks on the album. The use of Mick Coyne on pipes and Trevor Knight on keyboards on this track makes it one of those tunes you just can't forget. "THE CHILDREN OF LIR" is a haunting melody, vocals on this track by Maggie Cody. The title track finishes the first side of the album, and of all the tracks this brings out the best in Jimi's playing. Side two starts of with "WHITE COTTAGE" once again a very strong acoustic instrumental of superb quality. "FOREVER AND A YEAR" is the milder of the three songs on the album. "OASIS", a short instrumental is followed by "LORDS OF THE ROCKS" a contemporary folk song. Once again the use of Mick Coyne on pipes in this track gives it that something extra, as they blend in beautifully with the lyrics. The album finishes with "DYLAN'S TUNE" which is brilliant catchy tune with a touch of class. This is a unique album of original Irish music. I for one enjoyed it to no end. Read more reviews on this legendary Irish progressive folk rock album here.

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