"A tune for every mood – if only so many moods could be felt! Straight from the heart too – of the thirty tunes here, twenty-nine have been composed by Chris over the last 27 years.

This is a musical journey, best listened to with the sleeve notes in front of you - they guide you through the life and times of Chris Corbett (with a fair amount of his own quirky character showing through). Some of the tunes are descriptively titled: “The Dandling Jig” has a lovely reassuring bouncy feeling and “The Cookstown 100” is a giddy careening trip around narrow country lanes; others such as “The Light Fingered Girl” and “Tony Kearns’ Favourite” earned their names long after their birth; some found their identity as recently as the day of the recording with titles relating to how they behaved in front of the mic – “The Slippery Customer” is my favourite!

Like a poet reading his own works, Chris shows us his this is how he hears them in his own mind, how he wants them to be played. A welcoming relaxed feeling pervades – the tunes are open, warm, affable and easy going just like their Daddy! There is that feeling too, of Chris letting his tunes off, scrubbed, brushed and dressed up, ready now to make their own way in the world and almost certainly to end up in the repertoire of great musicians for generations until they themselves are considered old and timeless and essential!

These are not slavish re-workings of elements from deep within the tradition – they are new, fresh and modern yet they don’t arrogantly or dismissively reject what went before; they achieve the “holy grail” of any sensitive Irish traditional musician – they continue the tradition. Good man, Chris – more please!

This journey has been all the more enjoyable for the sensitive playing of Chris’s musical partners, Jamie, Nigel, Christian, Brendan and especially Dilara, such a fine conduit of her father’s compositions. On a personal note I see two of my heroes, Hugh O’Neill and Flann O’Brien have been thrown together here - only time will tell what epic adventures will ensue!"

Ronan Browne, Conamara, October 2008