Christy Moore

Whatever Tickles Yo Christy Moore Remastered edition

Moore's third album was his first after his first departure from Planxty, in the mid-1970s. Perhaps feeling a bit as if he should try to please all folk factions, the LP was divided into an acoustic side ("Tippin' It Up to Nancy," in fact, features nothing but his voice and bodhran) and an electric one. Rearrangements of traditional material dominated the song list, although it also included a couple of Ewan MacColl tunes and, most surprisingly, a cover of Mountain's "One Last Cold Kiss." Whatever approach was used, he was an effective interpreter of traditional numbers, or work that was traditional in style (even "One Last Cold Kiss," after all, was based on a Nantucket legend). The electric side was very much in the British fiddle-electric guitar folk-rock style pioneered by Fairport Convention, the most notable cuts being "The Ballad of Timothy Evans" and the eight-minute closer, "Van Diemen's Land." Not so easy to find as an LP, this was combined by Raven Records with the 1976 album Christy Moore on a two-CD reissue. Raven. 2004.