Happy to Meet – Sorry to Part is the name of an album by Irish rock

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 band Horslips

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Horslips are an Irish Celtic rock band that compose, arrange and perform songs based on traditional Irish jigs and reels. The group are regarded as 'founding fathers of Celtic rock' for their fusion of traditional Irish music with rock music and went on to inspire many local and international acts....

. It was first released in Ireland

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 by the end of 1972 as their debut album. Before this, they had released the same year three singles: Johnny's Wedding/Flower amang Them All and Green Gravel/Fairy King in Ireland and The High Reel/Furniture overseas. Happy to Meet – Sorry to Part was also released the following year in United Kingdom

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, Germany

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, France

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 and United States

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. In 1978, the LP

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 was re-released in UK together with The High Reel, added as the last track.

This is widely considered to be the first celtic rock

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 album ever recorded. With this, Horslips took the lead in Irish music of the time and created an original mixture from traditional Irish tunes and rock music. The album's name itself is that of an Irish jig

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.

Track listing

1. "Happy to Meet" (instrumental) – 0:48
2. "Hall of Mirrors" – 5:29
3. "The Clergy's Lamentation" (instrumental) – 4:39
4. "An Bratach Bán" – 2:04
5. "The Shamrock Shore" – 4:34
6. "Flower Amang Them All" (instrumental) – 2:04
7. "Bím Istigh Ag Ól" – 3:43
8. "Furniture" – 5:13
9. "Ace and Deuce" (instrumental) – 3:35
10. "Dance to Yer Daddy" – 4:37
11. "Scalloway Ripoff" (instrumental) – 1:54
12. "The Musical Priest" (instrumental) – 4:33
13. "Sorry to Part" (instrumental) – 1:32
14. "The High Reel" (instrumental) – 2:43

NOTE: The last track appears with the 1978 release only (LP).

The line-up

• Jim Lockhart - keyboards
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  , concert flute
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  , tin whistle
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  s, uilleann pipes
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  , vocals
• Johnny Fean - guitar
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  s, banjo
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• Charles O'Connor - fiddle, mandolin
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  , concertina
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  , vocals
• Barry Devlin
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   - bass guitar
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  , vocals
• Eamon Carr - drums
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  , bodhrán
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  , percussions

External links

• Horslips official site - find out how the album was recorded in an old haunted manor.