This recording of the fiddler Brian Rooney is a long overdue release for one of the London Irish scene's favourite musicians - the big man with the ready smile and the lonesome sound known far and wide as the Godfather. Cover pictureRooney comes from a musical family in the townland of Derragoon near Kiltyclogher, Co Leitrim close to the Fermanagh border. He moved to London in the '60s and has been a stalwart of the traditional circuit of Ireland's 'other capital' ever since. This CD was organised by Gregory Daly and produced by another great London Irish musician, the multi-instrumentalist extraordinaire, John Carty. Recorded in Longford in March '99, the album features superb accompaniment from three members of De Dannan - Brian McGrath (piano), Frankie Gavin (fiddle) and Alec Finn (bouzouki) - with banjo duties on two tracks handled by Carty. It is indicative of the degree of respect for Rooney's fiddling that Gavin, who is believed by...