The Celtic Fake Book: "C" Edition

Rating:
Summary: Huge resource
Review: I just got this book and I can't believe how many songs there are. They are also listed by their nationality (Irish, Scottish, Welsh). I play a little guitar and I was looking for an Irish song book I could just play the chords with. This book has simple chord charts in the back and tells you which to play during the song. It doesn't give any type of strumming pattern, which would be helpful for me the beginner, it shows just the melody notations. Being in the SCA, it's nice to have so many traditional songs at my fingertips. It also DOES give a few instrumental pieces, the ubiquitous "Irish Washerwoman" being one of them. I would have liked to have seen a little bit about each song, although I know this is not a history book, but would have settled for a general time frame each song was created in. Other than that, a wonderful resource.

Rating:
Summary: Huge resource
Review: I just got this book and I can't believe how many songs there are. They are also listed by their nationality (Irish, Scottish, Welsh). I play a little guitar and I was looking for an Irish song book I could just play the chords with. This book has simple chord charts in the back and tells you which to play during the song. It doesn't give any type of strumming pattern, which would be helpful for me the beginner, it shows just the melody notations. Being in the SCA, it's nice to have so many traditional songs at my fingertips. It also DOES give a few instrumental pieces, the ubiquitous "Irish Washerwoman" being one of them. I would have liked to have seen a little bit about each song, although I know this is not a history book, but would have settled for a general time frame each song was created in. Other than that, a wonderful resource.

Rating:
Summary: Looks great, but not what I expected
Review: This book looks great if you're want Celtic "songs" to sing. I actually was looking for music like is heard in Celtic sessions with fiddles, etc...
There is an alphabetical index as well as an index by country. I'm going to keep it as a reference, but I have to keep looking for what I wanted in the first place.

Rating:
Summary: Looks great, but not what I expected
Review: This book looks great if you're want Celtic "songs" to sing. I actually was looking for music like is heard in Celtic sessions with fiddles, etc...
There is an alphabetical index as well as an index by country. I'm going to keep it as a reference, but I have to keep looking for what I wanted in the first place.

Rating:
Summary: The Celtic Fake Book: "C" Edition
Review: This is a great fake book. I play the harp and have found this book extremely useful. It has many pieces of music that I simply couldn't find anywhere else! As far as fake books go (and I own a number of them), this is one of the very best.