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(updated 7th May  '08)



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*** CD AVAILABLE ***
******Shady Woods****** 
I'm afraid I'm out of "Uilleann Piper" cd's for now. You can always buy downloads from itunes.


See me play here from the 
2005 Northern Pipers Club in St. Paul

http://www.gnipc.org/tionol/2005/Tommy_Martin.ram



Email tompipes@tompipes.com for more info.

My "Shady Woods' and "Uilleann Piper" cd are now $15.00.   Price includes shipping.

Check out 
http://cdbaby.com/cd/tommymartin2
and
http://cdbaby.com/cd/tommymartin

Get your cd's while the offer lasts!!!!!

Here's a review from Bill Margeson who writes for the Irish American News.  May 06 edition

Last up in Tommy Martin. The album title is Shady Woods. His album was one of those mentioned early that cot lost in the pile of 500. Maybe we should give that a formal title. The Pile of 500. How does it sound? Anyway, Tommy is the best piper we have heard of in a long time-and we have heard a lot of great ones. A dub originally, he now resides in St. Louis, and he is on his honeymoon as you read this. Are the Cayman Islands ready for the pipes? Well, we are when they are played like this. We won’t go into all the sources, all the background here. This album is a terrific piece of business. Wow! Can this boy play!! If you love Uilleann pipes this is a must have. You can go to Tommy’s website—just google his name and find him, or there is cdbaby, and the album will also be available on liveireland.com soon. This is a new star in the sky. This is a deeply understood and heartfelt album of real musicianship. Good on ya, Tommy!!

Rating: 4 harps.

And another on from February's edition of Dublin's Hot Press Magazine. 

The uilleann pipes are a notoriously tricksome and unforgiving instrument, which is perhaps why their players have a tendency to lose the run of themselves when it comes to maintaining a solid rhythm. Dublin-born, St. Louis-based musician Tommy Martin occasionally falls prey to this common ailment on his second solo CD, but more than makes up for it with his sheer exuberance and inventive variations on the tunes. He’s one of the few pipers I’ve heard using the regulators for countermelody as well as chords, and his nifty impressions of yelping hounds and triumphant horn blasts on the classic descriptive piece ‘The Fox Chase’ are terrific. He also does a fine job of impersonating a one-man céilí band on the closing number, which sees him overdubbing himself on fiddle, flute and banjo while guest Kevin Buckley (who plays fiddle on two other tracks) takes over the drum kit.

Sarah McQuaid

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